Architect - Staff Software Engineer

Who we are looking for? Solutions Architects form a guild that provides end-to-end architectural coverage across our systems and customer journey steps. Each Architect owns a defined slice — a system (e.g., search, booking, payments) or a journey step (e.g., checkout, post-booking) — and is the named technical authority for that area.

Together, the guild ensures every critical part of our estate is owned, coherent, and moving toward a clear target state. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will set architectural direction, make and document decisions, and ensure those decisions are understood and adopted in practice — not just written down.

​ Own the end-to-end architecture of an assigned system or customer journey step — maintain a current-state assessment, a target architecture, and a sequenced, costed roadmap between them. Produce and keep current all architectural documentation for the slice: C4 models (L1/L2), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), ERDs, and sequence diagrams. Every material decision has a written rationale; undocumented architecture does not count.

Sit on the Architecture Board as the named decision authority for the slice — assess incoming proposals, drive decisions proactively, surface cross-slice conflicts, and escalate choices with material cost or strategic impact. Lead vendor and technology evaluations; validate team proposals against the target architecture; recommend or block technology choices within the slice