Director Solutions Strategy - Enterprise Architect
Bethesda, MD, US • Posted 18 hours ago • Updated 13 hours agoContract Independent
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Horizontal Talent
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Location: Strong preference to Bethesda, MD
Onsite: 3-days per week if local to Bethesda, MD otherwise 40 – 50% travel if not local to Bethesda.
Must Have Skills:
- Industry depth: 10–15 years in T&H, with 7+ years focused on hospitality enterprise applications and systems across PMS/CRS/RMS/CRM/CDP/CMS, payment, and data platforms.
- Enterprise architecture: Proven track in designing API-first integrations, event-driven architectures, and data platforms (lakehouse/streaming/real-time decisioning) that connect core hotel systems to digital channels and loyalty.
- Commercial acumen: Experience building repeatable, margin-accretive solution offerings; comfort with outcome-based pricing and business case development.
- GTM leadership: Ownership of sales assets, demos, case studies, and presales motions; ability to coach teams and present to C-suite (brand, owner, and management company stakeholders).
- Delivery partnership: Ability to translate strategy into execution (reference designs, standards, KPIs/OKRs) and govern multi-workstream programs.
Director, Solutions Strategy — Travel & Hospitality
Work Authorization: Client-facing; ~25–40% travel as needed
Role Summary
We’re seeking a seasoned Director of Solutions Strategy to lead the design and commercialization of end-to-end solutions for Travel & Hospitality clients—primarily hotel groups, resorts, and multi-brand portfolios. You will own the solutions strategy from market insight to GTM, define enterprise application roadmaps (e.g., PMS/CRS/RMS/CDP/CRM/loyalty/commerce), and partner with delivery and product leaders to translate strategy into measurable outcomes.
This role combines industry depth (hospitality operations, distribution, loyalty) with strong enterprise architecture fluency across core systems and modern data/experience platforms.
Outcomes (What success looks like in 12 months)
Solution Strategy & Architecture
Horizontal facilitates valuable and productive conversations between you and potential employers. We can assist you in growing your career by partnering you with employers that offer challenging assignments. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $62 - $100 per hour. This is not a guarantee of compensation, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
Work Authorization: Client-facing; ~25–40% travel as needed
Role Summary
We’re seeking a seasoned Director of Solutions Strategy to lead the design and commercialization of end-to-end solutions for Travel & Hospitality clients—primarily hotel groups, resorts, and multi-brand portfolios. You will own the solutions strategy from market insight to GTM, define enterprise application roadmaps (e.g., PMS/CRS/RMS/CDP/CRM/loyalty/commerce), and partner with delivery and product leaders to translate strategy into measurable outcomes.
This role combines industry depth (hospitality operations, distribution, loyalty) with strong enterprise architecture fluency across core systems and modern data/experience platforms.
Outcomes (What success looks like in 12 months)
- Growth impact: Launch 2–3 repeatable solution archetypes that drives $15-20M+ pipeline and win rate improvements across target hotel segments.
- Client value: Deliver measurable business outcomes (RevPAR/ADR uplift, direct booking growth, loyalty engagement, cost-to-serve reduction) through integrated solutions spanning booking, stay, and post-stay.
- Portfolio coherence: Establish a solution blueprint and roadmap that aligns brand, commercial, and technology strategies; standardize reusable accelerators and reference designs.
- Enablement: Train account teams and presales on solution narratives, demos, and commercial models; certify ?50 consultants on the solution playbook.
Solution Strategy & Architecture
- Define the end-to-end solution vision across guest acquisition, booking, in-stay operations, and loyalty/retention.
- Map business capabilities to enterprise systems (PMS, CRS, RMS, CRM/CDP, CMS/AEM, booking engines, payment orchestration, data platforms) and design integration patterns (APIs/eventing/ETL).
- Create solution archetypes for priority scenarios (e.g., CRS modernization, PMS migration, direct booking acceleration, loyalty re-platform, data monetization).
- Own core sales assets (narratives, playbooks, pitch decks, demos, case studies) and partner marketing content; set differentiated value propositions for hotel sub-segments.
- Define pricing/commercial approaches (outcomes-based, subscription, build-operate-transfer).
- Lead executive workshops; translate brand/owner/operator goals into a sequenced roadmap and OKRs.
- Maintain a feedback loop with delivery/product to evolve accelerators, standards, and reference implementations.
- Curate partner strategies across hospitality tech vendors and hyperscalers (e.g., Oracle Opera PMS, Saber/SynXis CRS, IDeaS RMS, Salesforce CRM/Marketing Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud/AEM, AWS/Azure/GCP, payment providers); build joint offerings and co-sell motions.
- Publish POVs on distribution modernization, loyalty personalization, data clean rooms, and hotel commerce.
- Mentor solution architects and strategists; codify playbooks and training paths.
- Industry depth: 10–15 years in T&H, with 7+ years focused on hospitality enterprise applications and systems across PMS/CRS/RMS/CRM/CDP/CMS, payment, and data platforms.
- Enterprise architecture: Proven track in designing API-first integrations, event-driven architectures, and data platforms (lakehouse/streaming/real-time decisioning) that connect core hotel systems to digital channels and loyalty.
- Commercial acumen: Experience building repeatable, margin-accretive solution offerings; comfort with outcome-based pricing and business case development.
- GTM leadership: Ownership of sales assets, demos, case studies, and presales motions; ability to coach teams and present to C-suite (brand, owner, and management company stakeholders).
- Delivery partnership: Ability to translate strategy into execution (reference designs, standards, KPIs/OKRs) and govern multi-workstream programs.
- Hands-on familiarity with Oracle Opera/OXI, Saber SynXis, IDeaS, Amadeus, Salesforce (Sales/Service/Marketing Cloud), Adobe Experience Cloud/AEM, Composable CDP, Mulesoft/Apigee, Kafka/Kinesis, Snowflake/Databricks, Power BI.
- Experience with booking engines, payments (PCI, tokenization, SCA), and revenue/forecasting analytics.
- Knowledge of OTA/GDS/TMC distribution, rate parity, channel management, and meta search.
- Exposure to loyalty modernization (tiers, partnerships, real-time earn/burn) and guest identity/unified profile.
- Background in data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), accessibility, and security in hospitality contexts.
- Strategic storytelling & executive facilitation
- Systems thinking & blueprinting
- Outcome orientation & measurement (RevPAR, ADR, NPS, CAC/LTV)
- Partner/Ecosystem orchestration
- Team leadership & mentoring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Hospitality Technology, or related field; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Salesforce/Adobe, cloud architect, data platform).
- Reports to: VP/Head of Technology (T\&H) or Practice GM
- Directs: Small cross-functional squad (solution architects, strategists, GTM specialists); dotted-line to delivery/product leads.
Horizontal facilitates valuable and productive conversations between you and potential employers. We can assist you in growing your career by partnering you with employers that offer challenging assignments. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $62 - $100 per hour. This is not a guarantee of compensation, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
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- Dice Id: 10123528
- Position Id: 73302
- Posted 18 hours ago
Company Info
About Horizontal Talent
Horizontal Integration offers two service lines. Our staffing agency places IT, digital and creative talent in both contract and permanent roles. Our digital agency provides digital marketing strategy and technology consulting on a project basis. Many of our clients take advantage of both service lines.
We are a certified Minority Business Enterprise, with more than 200 employees across our offices in Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas and Vadodara, India. We ve been consistently growing and profitable since the company was founded in 2003.
Honors:
Recognized as a "2009 Best Place to Work" by Minneapolis/St.Paul Business Journal.
Fact:
Our people and our organization are deeply rooted in IT and interactive marketing.
Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us. All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.
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