Director – Solution Architect (Revenue Management)
Location: Bethesda, MD (Remote/Hybrid)
Duration: Long-Term Contract

Important Hiring Requirements (Please Read Before Applying)

• Remote/Hybrid opportunity. Candidates must be local to the Bethesda, MD area and available to come onsite whenever required for architecture workshops, leadership meetings, planning sessions, or business discussions.
• An active LinkedIn profile with a professional profile photo is mandatory. Profiles without LinkedIn or a profile photo will not be considered.
Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available for this position.

About the Role

A leading Fortune 500 organization is seeking a Director – Solution Architect (Revenue Management) to join its Enterprise Architecture team.

This is a strategic architecture leadership position responsible for defining enterprise technology solutions supporting large-scale modernization initiatives. The architect will partner with Product, Business, Engineering, and Enterprise Technology teams to design scalable, cloud-native solutions focused on Revenue Management platforms and enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading enterprise architecture initiatives, designing highly scalable distributed systems, and driving cloud transformation across complex organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale, resilient, high-performance technology solutions.
• Define target-state architecture for modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Translate business capabilities into scalable technical architecture.
• Lead architecture initiatives supporting Revenue Management and enterprise applications.
• Design solution, integration, deployment, and data architectures.
• Produce architecture artifacts including conceptual diagrams, logical models, domain models, technology roadmaps, and solution documentation.
• Architect cloud-native platforms emphasizing scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
• Define enterprise API strategies, integration patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Design event-driven systems utilizing messaging and streaming technologies.
• Establish enterprise architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Evaluate modernization opportunities, cloud migration strategies, and technology roadmaps.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and regulatory guidelines.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering teams, Project Managers, and business stakeholders.
• Provide architectural leadership, mentoring, and technical direction to engineering organizations.
• Support platform health reviews, scalability planning, and long-term technology strategy.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering and enterprise solution architecture experience.
• 3+ years designing target-state architecture for enterprise digital transformation programs.
• Experience architecting applications supporting high-volume enterprise data processing.
• Strong background creating enterprise architecture documentation and design artifacts.
• Experience designing cloud deployment architectures focused on scalability, resiliency, availability, and performance.
• Strong understanding of defining and implementing Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).

Required Technical Skills

• Enterprise Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• AWS Cloud Services
• Amazon EKS
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon S3
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon DocumentDB
• Couchbase Capella
• Snowflake
• PostgreSQL
• Relational Databases
• NoSQL Databases
• Microservices Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Kafka
• Apache Spark
• REST APIs
• GraphQL
• XML
• Asynchronous APIs
• API Design
• Integration Architecture
• High-Volume Data Processing
• Security, Scalability, Reliability, Performance & Observability
• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• Capacity Planning
• Technology Roadmaps
• Enterprise Architecture Governance

Preferred Experience

Candidates with experience in any of the following will be highly preferred:

• Hospitality or Travel Technology
• Revenue Management Systems
• Pricing & Revenue Optimization
• Revenue Forecasting
• Dynamic Pricing
• Inventory Optimization
• Room Allocation Strategies
• Loyalty & Rewards Pricing Models
• Enterprise Booking Platforms
• Enterprise Data Platforms
• API Gateway technologies (Akana preferred)
• Platform Modernization
• Technical Debt Reduction
• Functional or Asynchronous Programming

Desired Leadership Skills

• Enterprise Architecture Leadership
• Executive Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Technical Mentoring
• Architecture Governance
• Communication & Presentation Skills
• Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Technology Strategy
• Organizational Influence

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Strategic enterprise architecture leadership role.
• Opportunity to shape next-generation cloud and digital transformation initiatives.
• Work with executive leadership, product organizations, and engineering teams on large-scale modernization programs.
• Exposure to cutting-edge cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise data platforms.
• Flexible remote work while collaborating onsite for key planning sessions and architecture workshops.

Only candidates who meet the work authorization requirements, maintain an active LinkedIn profile with a professional photo, and can attend onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area as needed should apply.