Solution Architect

How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities) The Technical Architect will play a key role in Virgin Atlantic’s Cloud modernization program – a multi-year modernization program covering multiple initiatives. The Technical Architect will be a part of Tech and Transformation organization, responsible for the cloud modernization and transformation. The architect will also be working closely with other technical architects and solution Architects to support mission-critical applications, serving as our technical expert.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Owns technical decisions and direction of the Transformation and Modernization projects.
• Plays an active role in the overall technical architecture and owns the technical responsibility of the success of cloud/non-cloud solutions.
• Overseeing each phase of software application development to ensure a high level of quality for each assigned project.
• Developing and defining business and technical operating procedures and standards.
• Identifying application and business requirements by communicating with technical teams and stakeholders.
• Keeping abreast of, recommending, and driving new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
• Architect specializations will include App/Integration, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, Platform, Security.

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field is required
• 15+ years of experience with a minimum of 5+ years as a Software Architect or Lead Software Engineering capacity at enterprise scale.
• Experience with the architecture and design of enterprise software solutions, applications, integrations, security, and platform engineering is required.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop staff Software Engineers with best practices and leadership.
• Experience defining and maintaining accountability to Architectural Design Patterns and serving as a technology domain’s escalation point.
• Highly proficient with leading Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
• Expertise in Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required.
• Expert level proficiency in the following technologies, principles and programming languages include Cloud-native development in Python/Java/.net, ROSA, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Serverless Architecture, AWS and Azure Services, Gitlab, Tekton, RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in AWS Sagemaker, Bedrock and have exposure to various AI models.
• Experience in Generative AI and Agentic AI
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• Strong Communication and Collaboration skills is a must to have.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.
• Microservice development on a cloud platform using 12-factor architectural patterns.

Experience building flexible and robust APIs