Solution Architect
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Full Time
Datalex
Experienced
The Role
We are looking for a Customer Solution Architect who is highly technically proficient, an excellent communicator, and has a strong customer orientation. This role is both customer facing and technical with a primary focus on delivering key customer features to production. The Customer Architect is a team player and builds strong relationships with customers and key internal stakeholders such as Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture. They are confident in advising our own project team and customers on matters of design, product enhancements, optimisation, and implementation, while being commercially aware and able to make sound judgement calls.If you are driven and enjoy working in fast paced environments, then this role is for you! You will have a front row seat into how the travel industry works today and help us stay ahead of the curve. Datalex partner with best of breed content and payment providers, you will get to work with the best in industry at every level.
Key Responsibilities
- Take a leadership role within the implementation team to deliver our product per customer requirements, driving architectural decisions and best practices – delivering on budget and on time
- Provides consultancy services to our customers as they use our product.
- Manage the customer solutions & system architecture.
- Translate business requirements into system level design and detailed technical architecture documents in a clear, professional manner
- Identify product enhancements required and actively inform product management of the business value
- Work with our Operations team to analyse the performance of our systems in a production environment and evaluate enhancements to our product for performance and cost benefits
- Contribute and agree on a strategic customer roadmap in collaboration with the leadership team
- Contribute to the long-term development of our product suite.
- Identify opportunities for and drive Continuous Improvement activities.
Technical Skills / Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Customer Facing Experience in previous roles required.
- Experience with presenting at C-level
- Proven ability to operate within a multi-locational delivery team environment with both onsite and remote engagement. Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Customer Architect.
- E-Commerce (retail) industry experience and/or experience in a high transaction volume or mission critical system.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
- Hands-on software development experience is a must
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Must be able to deliver high quality customer facing documentation.
- Be a self-starter, have a strong problem-solving aptitude and does not accept the status quo
- Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience delivering mission critical cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 7+ years in application design and development
- Minimum 4 years of OO/Internet design experience.
- Expert in some of the following technologies: Java, J2EE, SOA, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, SOAP, REST, OOD/OOA, .NET
- Experience working with database systems such as Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB.
- Proficiency in web technologies would be advantageous – HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, React
Desirable
- Travel technology and terminology experience.
About Datalex
Datalex's purpose is to transform airline retail. Datalex is a market leader in airline retail technology, offering unique products that enable airlines to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Datalex has a strong track record of delivering digital retail transformation for progressive airline brands worldwide including Aer Lingus, easyJet, JetBlue, LATAM Airlines, Edelweiss, Air Transat, Air China, and Air Macau. The Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the USA, and China. In 2024, Datalex was awarded the 'Great Place to Work®' and 'Best Workplaces in Tech™' certifications. Datalex plc is a publicly listed company, on Euronext Growth, Dublin.Apply for this position
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