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Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.\nLocation: Kraków (hybrid work - 3 day per week in the office)\nPrincipal Application Architect - Nova Team\nRole Overview\nSabre is seeking an experienced Principal Application Architect to support the Nova Team, a strategic engineering group within the Customer Identity and Access Solutions (CIAS) organization. Nova is responsible for driving platform modernization, cloud-native transformation, and architectural excellence across CIAS’s most critical identity and access platforms.\nThis role reports to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and operates as a technical authority across Nova-owned systems and the broader CIAS landscape.\nAbout the Nova Team\nThe Nova team owns and supports a portfolio of foundational Sabre platform and infrastructure services, including:\nOff-Host Session Manager (OHSM)\n\nCross Domain Session Store (CDSS) and related services (Sync, Garbage Collector)\n\nCustomer Viewership (CVSP)\n\nSecurity Shared Cache\n\nThese platforms operate at Sabre scale, supporting thousands of transactions per second with low-latency response characteristics (10-100 milliseconds). As a result, Nova’s scope is focused on systems where stability, performance, security, and correctness are non-negotiable, and where outages, regressions, or audit gaps have immediate enterprise-level impact.\nOver the past several years, Nova has consistently converted high-risk scope into stable, compliant, and cost-controlled outcomes, including:\nLeading production readiness with zero disruption for initial client traffic on critical platforms\n\nStabilizing Router and OHSM into trusted CIAS infrastructure\n\nEstablishing repeatable performance and testing practices\n\nDelivering PCI 4.0 audit outcomes, including late-scope SIM remediation\n\nDriving modernization through CI/CD improvements, repository migrations, and platform hardening (notably CVSP)\n\nReducing infrastructure footprint across multiple systems, delivering ongoing run-rate cost avoidance\n\nCollectively, these outcomes have avoided audit failures, protected platform-level SLAs, prevented incident-driven cost and escalation, and reduced long-term operational spend-while keeping CIAS’s most critical platforms performant and reliable at scale.\nThe Role\nAs a Principal Application Architect, you will define long-term architectural direction, guide engineering excellence through close partnership with the Nova team, and influence product and platform strategy across CIAS.\nThis is a hands-on architectural leadership role: deep in design, grounded in delivery, and accountable for non-functional outcomes at enterprise scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as an architectural authority for CIAS platforms supported by Nova, with accountability for stability, performance, security, and correctness\n\nDefine and evolve the long-term architectural vision, strategy, and modernization roadmaps across Nova-owned systems\n\nLead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms operating at Sabre scale\n\nDevelop and maintain architectural blueprints, domain models, integration patterns, and target-state architectures\n\nGuide engineering teams through complex design decisions and trade-offs, balancing delivery realities with long-term platform health\n\nPartner with CIAS Product leadership, Engineering leaders, and CIAS Solutions Architects to ensure architecture aligns with CIAS architectural North Star vision, business strategy and performance requirements\n\nDrive architectural governance, ensuring consistency, security, compliance, and audit readiness across CIAS services\n\nInfluence senior technical and business stakeholders across CIAS and Sabre to drive architectural alignment and strategic outcomes\n\nConduct deep-dive design reviews and targeted code reviews for critical paths, high-risk changes, and production readiness\n\nMentor senior engineers within Nova, raising the technical bar and strengthening architectural capability across the team\n\nChampion engineering excellence, cloud-first principles, and operational rigor\n\nQualifications & Experience\nRequired Experience\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or technical leadership roles\n\nProven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed, cloud-based systems\n\nDemonstrated ownership of non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security, resilience) for mission-critical platforms\n\nDeep expertise in application architecture, including microservices, domain-driven design, and API-first design\n\nHands-on experience with cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes; public cloud such as GCP preferred)\n\nExperience defining architectural standards, guiding modernization, and influencing delivery across multiple teams\n\nStrong analytical and architectural modeling skills, with the ability to reason about complex systems at scale\n\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to guide senior technical and business stakeholders\n\nTechnical Depth (Hands-On at the Architectural Level)\nMaintains architectural fluency through design reviews, critical code path reviews, and production readiness assessments\n\nExperience establishing or governing CI/CD standards, testing strategies, and quality gates for platform services\n\nFamiliarity with modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and secure delivery practices\n\nWorking knowledge of Agile/Scrum development environments\n\nAbility to diagnose and reason about complex production issues when needed, without being a primary on-call implementer\n\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)\n\nBenefits:\nPaid time off\nYear-End-Break: enjoy additional fully paid days off during the last week of the year\n\nPaid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies.\n\nPaid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice\n\nYour money\nMy Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card\n\nTax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax\n\nEmployee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury\n\nBaby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption\n\nSay Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services\n\nHealth and wellness\nLuxmed medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services\n\nForeign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package\n\nEmployee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor\n\nLife insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program\n\nCareer development\nProfessional development: enjoy access to Udemy learning platform as well as join Sabre live learning sessions\n\nCertification and tuition reimbursement\n\nOur Communities: join one of our team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group, Innovation Lab Community, Women in Technology, SOLVE!T and many more)\n\nAnd more\nCar and bike parking\n\nFun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work, foosball, ping pong, pool table, swings, massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents’ rooms as well\n\nNo dress code\n\nInnovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment, Robot construction kit, 3D printers and many more\n\nAttractive Referral Bonus: earn $2500 USD for every hired referral\n\nWe will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as we progress your application.\nPlease note that only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will proceed in the selection process.\nSabre is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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