Chief Architect

2 days ago

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $220k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Accommodations Plus International

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Travel • Technology • Transportation

Accommodations Plus International is a company dedicated to providing efficient layover experiences for airline crew members through integrated technology and services. They operate a global network, sourcing accommodations from over 600,000 hotel partners worldwide and offering 24/7 customer support. Their proprietary solutions cater to the unique needs of air and rail travel, ensuring seamless operations in hotel booking and crew management.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1984

💰 Private Equity Round on 2018-08

📋 Description

• Build and Lead the Architecture Function • Establish enterprise-wide architecture standards, frameworks, and governance • Educate executives, product leaders, and engineers to embed architectural discipline across the organization. • Create communication and training programs to drive adoption of best practices. • Define the Enterprise Architecture Blueprint • Translate business strategy into technology capabilities across the enterprise. • Design a cohesive blueprint that links enterprise, solution, application, data, and security architecture. • Ensure technology choices are aligned with long-term scalability, resilience, and modularity. • Guide Solution & Application Architecture • Oversee architecture for new platforms and services. • Chair the Architecture Review Board to align design decisions across product and engineering. • Ensure solutions are built for scalability, flexibility, and reuse. • Shape Data & Security Architecture • Define the data architecture roadmap and governance practices that enable analytics, AI, and compliance. • Partner with the security leader to integrate secure-by-design principles into all technology layers. • Set Technology & Infrastructure Direction • Provide guidance on cloud adoption, DevSecOps, and infrastructure strategy. • Define reference architectures for microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems. • Support high-volume, high-reliability operations with scalable architecture practices. • Leadership & Influence • Build and inspire a team of enterprise, solution, application, data, and security architects. • Act as a strategic advisor to the executive team on technology investment, risk, and platform strategy. • Serve as the chief evangelist of architecture, influencing at all levels of the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 15–20+ years of experience in technology and architecture leadership, with at least 5 years as a Chief Architect in similar size organizations. • Background in platform, payments, fintech, e-commerce, or other high-transaction, high-availability industries strongly preferred. • Proven track record of establishing architecture functions in organizations without existing standards. • Deep expertise across enterprise, solution, application, data, and security architectures. • Mastery of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven design. • Exceptional leadership and communication skills — able to educate, influence, and inspire at all levels. • Strong change management experience: capable of building frameworks, gaining buy-in, and embedding practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance • Flexible Spending Accounts for childcare and healthcare • 401(k) with matching • Basic Life Insurance and voluntary options including short-term disability, hospital, accident, and pet discounts at select hotels