Hello, Hej, 你好, Salut!  

Flight Centre Travel Group are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to design cloud-native solutions and deliver new and enhanced business capabilities. You will be involved in the initial phases of large initiatives and projects, working with global product and engineering teams to solve complex business problems. In this role, you will be required to be part of early phases proof-of-concepts ensuring technical solutions are explored. Our ideal candidate will have expertise in a broad range of technologies, with proven experience in designing cloud-native architectures (ideally AWS). 

Why Flight Centre?

🙋🏾‍♀️Culture: you will be employed by an inclusive company that offers a team culture like no other in the industry - Flight Centre Travel Group Australia is proud to be a certified Great Place To Work® Australia New Zealand Pty Ltd

🎉Development: Individualised, ongoing Learning & Development via communities of practice. Dedicated time to learn, share and collaborate skills, interests and goals, as well as contribute your own expertise and insights of others.

⭐Innovation Days: the opportunity to create, collaborate, and bring innovative concepts to life with dedicated innovation days! 

🧑‍💻 Dedicated Engineering Days: hosted by technology partners off-site, staff have an opportunity to increase knowledge and skills, and test out new and exciting technologies. 

🔧Tech Learning Tools: access to learning tools such as Udemy for ongoing technical skills development

♀️ Encouraging Equality: Join our Women in PM&E community, a comprehensive program aimed at fostering gender diversity, empowering, and supporting women in their pursuit of successful careers in technology. It encompasses a variety of initiatives, workshops, mentorship opportunities, and networking events.

🏆Exclusive Staff Discounts: Accessible via our employee-only portal with 350+ of Australia’s leading retailers, health and wellness discounts, financial planning advice, employee share plan and more

🌏Travel Discounts: Including family and friends - flights, hotels, tours, cruises, travel insurance and more

💎Brightness of Future: Career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses across the globe - we promote from within 

🥦Corporate Health Discounts: Access exclusive discounts on health insurance plans for you and your family with our partner, BUPA, access to internal gym

🌞Mental Health: Support and Employee Assistance Program for staff and family

🎉Social: Regular awards nights, social team-building and industry events, with the opportunity to attend global conferences (Los Angeles in 2025) 

🙏🏼 Giving Back: Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through Workplace Giving, volunteering and fundraising; paid parental and volunteer leave

💚Sustainability: The protection of our environment is essential to the future of tourism, as a leading travel group, we have made efforts to affect positive change to the environment

 
A day in the life... 

• Technical solution designs that meet our complex business needs that are aligned to strategy, architectural and product roadmaps 

• Analyse business requirements and problem solve to create the right solutions for our customers 

• Designing cloud-native architectures with simplicity and reuse at the forefront of our solution designs 

• Solution design of major software components, systems, and features including analysis, research, design, and documentation that fulfils business requirements 

• Documentation and presentation of solutions in sufficient detail to allow an estimation of the effort required for delivery 

• Presenting solutions across our global architecture review board including security, data, infrastructure, and application architectures 

• Collaborating with Solution Architects, Technical Leads and Engineers to agree upon architectural solutions and standards

• Design and build cloud-native solutions including hands-on proof of concepts 

• Research technologies and trends to contribute to our tech radar and solutions 

• Supporting Teams in understanding the dependencies between systems impacted by the solution to allow for effective planning 

• Assisting Teams in identifying risks and issues relating to the solution and any dependencies on other initiatives 

• Supporting the engineering teams in diagnosing and resolving architectural and technical issues in a consultative capacity throughout the project 

• Work closely with product to ensure our architecture roadmaps are progressively and incrementally built into our product lifecycle 
   

Who you are...  

• 5+ years’ experience as a technical lead, software/solution/technical architect 

• 10 + years in software engineering with extensive experience working with cross-functional teams in building, designing, and delivering end-to-end solution architecture 

• Strong experience with building, designing, and delivering cloud-native applications that are built for global scale, reliable, secure, and performant 

• Proven experience in solving highly complex technical and business problems and present conceptual information to all levels of internal and external management 

• Extensive experience in solution architecture 

• Strong knowledge in architecture styles, such as Services-Oriented Architecture & Micro-Service based Architectures 

• Experience with data architecture, data platforms, tools, and data design concepts 

• You love driving for technical outcomes 

• Experience with databases and middleware 

• Excellent written and oral communications skills 

• Strong analytical skills 

 
Extra travel points if you have... 

• PCI DSS/GDPR compliance experience 

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architecture 

• Exposure to the following areas: Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Redis and AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront 

• Experience with observabilitytools, such as logging (Splunk, Kibana) and monitoring (New Relic) 

We value you... 

Flight Centre Travel Group is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace that supports your unique identity to create better, safer experiences for everyone.​ We encourage you to come as you are; to foster inclusivity and collaboration. We celebrate you.  

Who we are... 

As a global travel retailer, our people come from all different backgrounds, and our connections spread to the far reaches of the globe - 20+ countries and counting! Together, we are a family (we call ourselves Flighties).  

We encourage you to DREAM BIG through collaboration and innovation, and make sure you are supported to make incredible ideas a reality. Together, we deliver quality, innovative solutions that delight our customers and achieve our strategic priorities. 

Irreverence. Ownership. Egalitarianism.  

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