Enterprise Architect
Expedia Inc
Contract Austin , Texas, United States Posted 2 months ago
About Position
Enterprise Architect (Contract)
$95.00 / Hourly
Austin , Texas, United States
Enterprise Architect
Contract Austin , Texas, United States Posted 2 months ago
Skills
Participated in peer’s performance reviews by providing technical assessment and feedback Defined software engineering/architecture best practices at a department/organizational level Makes choices across teams to apply a number of technologies or languages Presents new technology choices to technical and non-technical observers Serves as an expert for multiple domains Guides others to make well defined technology choices Establishes approaches to solving technical opportunities that interact across a business unit Understanding of systems being created across EG and how own business unit would integrate with them Ability to understand and design highly complex systems Has mastered software design best practices shapes coding methodologies and best practices and evangelizes adoption of new platform technologies Makes choices across teams to apply a number of technologies or languages Presents new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers Expert for multiple domains Guide others to make well-defined technology choices Creates systems that interact across a business unit Understands systems being created across Expedia Group (EG) and how own business unit would integrate with them Understands and designs highly complex systems Establishes standards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level Drives principles and practices to guide others in design of software that is easily testable and observable Understands cross domain capabilities and how they integrate together. Bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of experience; or Master's degree in a related field and 10+ years of experienceDescription
Enterprise Architecture plays an integral role in defining and assessing
the company’s architecture strategy, standards and practices. The team
works to effectively translate our own organizations business objectives
and technology strategies into specific architecture strategies and
technology direction enabled by technologies and services. We establish
standards and patterns for EG architecture which are incorporated across
all our domains and enterprise technology to ensure all systems at
Expedia Group adhere to the non functional requirements. With those
standards and patterns in hand, we assist our business partners with
understanding architecture and why it is so important for everyone to be
a part of. As a team - We look to each other for guidance and push one
another to simplify. We trust one another and we choose fearlessly. We
are inclusive and through that we go get what’s next. Above all else –
we have fun.
Responsibilities
- Partner with technologists across all of EG to collaboratively solve
- problems
- Able to go in code base and understand code (mostly written in Java)
- Ability to build rapport with product and engineer teams
- Support and inform EG technologists via a community of practice
- Build relationships with leaders across the organization to
- understand business problems and apply a technology lens to solve them
- Design a technology stack that is tied to business outcomes and our
- bottom line
- Experience building distributed systems and in a distributed cloud
- environment (preferably AWS)
- Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional
- area to promote effectiveness in the department or business
- unit/function
- Provide active mentorship and rising talent identification
- Fill in for peer engineering director as need arises in setting
- technical next steps in co-ordination with engineering management
- Develop north star vision for domain in which they are focused
- Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends
- integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to
- provide a fully functional solution to a business problem
- Identify areas for improvement and develops innovative enhancements
- using available software development tools following design requirements
- of customer
- Advocate for designing software that is scalable, resilient and
- stable
- Have deep knowledge of entire system and ability to jump into code
- in any component to fire fight and contribute
- Make decisions on product technology direction based on deep subject
- matter knowledge
- Expertise of professional software engineering practices & best
- practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding
- standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes,
- testing, and operations
- Lead collaboration with key stakeholders and contributes subject
- matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues
- Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems
- approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which
- polices/processes should be standardized and which should differ
- Provide guidance when evaluating the impacts of a solution to ensure
- linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Keep abreast of broad industry trends and develops methods for
- implementing them in our environment
- Identify when new trends may be too disruptive for a reasonable
- implementation or spot the ephemerality of new trends
- Understand that technology or automation doesn't solve every problem
- Champion prioritized initiatives across the local organization and
- work with others across EG to investigate those initiatives
- Ensure documentation is not overwhelming or obsolete
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