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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution Architect - Hotel Technology & Enterprise Systems - Hybrid AZ - **Company:** Best Western International, Inc. - **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Application Integration Architecture, Business Logic, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Batch Processing, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Customer Interaction Management (Software), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Software Design Patterns, Digital Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Amazon DynamoDB, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Middleware, Interoperability, OAuth, PCI Data Security Standards, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Tokenization, Web Platforms, Enterprise Application Integration, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Okta, Technical Debt, AWS Lambda, Togaf, Documentation System, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Microservices - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://bestwestern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Phoenix-AZ/Solution-Architect---Hotel-Technology---Enterprise-Systems---Hybrid-AZ_R5184/apply ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. * 8+ years of progressive technology experience, including 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions across software engineering, systems integration, cloud, enterprise architecture, or solution architecture. * Experience architecting solutions across applications, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, data flows, identity, and security domains, with strong knowledge of modern integration patterns such as APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, service orchestration, and enterprise data exchange. * Experience with cloud architecture, preferably AWS, including cloud-native, hybrid, scalable, resilient, secure, and supportable design patterns. * Ability to create architecture diagrams, integration maps, dependency models, technical design documents, and executive-ready summaries that translate business requirements into practical architecture solutions and delivery approaches. * Strong understanding of security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, and operational support considerations. * Proven ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, product teams, engineering teams, vendors, and business stakeholders, with strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and decision-framing skills. * Experience working in Agile, hybrid, or enterprise project delivery environments., * Experience with hospitality, travel, distribution, reservation, PMS, loyalty, contact center, payment, identity, guest/member digital platforms, or CRS/GDS/OTA integrations. * Architecture certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent. * Experience with cloud, identity, API, and integration services such as Okta, OAuth, API gateways, AWS Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, SNS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF, or similar technologies. * Experience with PCI DSS, GDPR, PII handling, tokenization, encryption, compliance-sensitive data flows, vendor evaluations, RFPs/SOWs, modernization roadmaps, architecture assessments, documentation tools, AI-assisted modernization, mentoring, or architecture governance practices. Core Competencies * Enterprise, solution, cloud, API, and integration architecture. * Hospitality platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and systems thinking. * Security-by-design, privacy-aware architecture, and risk mitigation. * Business and technology alignment, executive communication, delivery leadership, and architecture governance. * Vendor collaboration, documentation, knowledge transfer, mentorship, and technical leadership. ## Description The position provides both strategic and hands-on architecture leadership by translating business needs into practical designs, defining current- and future-state architecture, guiding modernization, reducing technical debt, and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and priorities. The ideal candidate brings technical depth, business acumen, delivery leadership, vendor collaboration, and strong executive communication while supporting implementation planning, design reviews, and issue resolution., Architecture & Solution Design * Lead end-to-end solution architecture for hotel technology and enterprise system initiatives. * Develop current-state, target-state, and transitional architecture models for complex platforms and integrations. * Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions across cloud, application, data, API, integration, and enterprise platforms. * Assess architecture patterns, system constraints, technical debt, scalability risks, operational processes, and single points of failure. * Define and maintain architecture standards, reusable design assets, diagrams, system inventories, integration maps, dependency models, and data-flow documentation. * Support modernization strategies that decouple legacy business logic, introduce modern integration patterns, reduce high-risk technologies, and account for performance, reliability, security, privacy, compliance, supportability, and total cost of ownership. Hospitality Platform Modernization * Provide architecture leadership across Best Western's core hospitality ecosystem, including CRS, distribution, PMS, loyalty, member-facing systems, contact center technologies, and adjacent enterprise platforms. * Support modernization of reservation and distribution capabilities by evaluating current-state architecture, integration dependencies, data movement, transaction flows, and future-state options. * Partner with delivery teams to simplify, consolidate, re-platform, or modernize existing solutions and prepare for major transformation initiatives, vendor implementations, platform migrations, and digital capability expansion. Integration, Cloud & Technical Enablement * Design and govern enterprise integration patterns, including REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, middleware, batch processing, third-party connectivity, API gateways, service orchestration, data exchange, and system interoperability. * Provide architecture oversight for AWS, cloud-native, and hybrid solutions while ensuring alignment with security-by-design principles. Delivery Leadership & Governance * Provide technical oversight throughout the project lifecycle, from discovery and design through implementation, testing, go-live, and handoff. * Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, technical assessments, stakeholder discovery sessions, and translate requirements into actionable technical solutions. * Collaborate with project managers, product owners, developers, engineers, security, infrastructure, vendors, and business stakeholders to align delivery approach and execution. * Identify architecture risks, dependencies, design gaps, delivery constraints, and mitigation options while supporting estimation, planning, sequencing, and delivery quality. Business Partnership & Executive Communication * Serve as a trusted technology advisor to business and technology leadership, helping translate operational needs, platform gaps, regulatory considerations, and business outcomes into architecture direction. * Present architecture recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and future-state options in clear business terms that connect decisions to reliability, scalability, cost, guest/member experience, and strategic flexibility. * Support vendor evaluations, RFPs, Statements of Work, technical due diligence, and leadership decisions related to modernization, build-versus-buy options, integration strategy, and long-term technology direction. Mentorship & Practice Development * Mentor engineers, technical leads, analysts, and team members on architecture principles, design patterns, documentation practices, and consistent standards. * Develop reusable architecture assets, frameworks, and templates that support governance, delivery consistency, and knowledge transfer. * Contribute to the architecture community of practice and help mature Best Western's architecture governance model while staying current on emerging technologies, hospitality trends, cloud, integration, security, and modernization practices. ## Related Videos - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Building Well-Architected applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/691-building-well-architected-applications) - [Delay the AI Overlords: How OAuth and OpenFGA Can Keep Your AI Agents from Going Rogue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1637-delay-the-ai-overlords-how-oauth-and-openfga-can-keep-your-ai-agents-from-going-rogue) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Crew Management System for Airlines: Plan duties for pilots & flight attendants worldwide](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1444-crew-management-system-for-airlines-plan-duties-for-pilots-flight-attendants-worldwide) - [Advanced Cypress: custom assertions and tasks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/790-advanced-cypress-custom-assertions-and-tasks) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [What Makes WeAreDevelopers World Congress Different From Every Other Tech Event?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/701-what-makes-wearedevelopers-world-congress-different-from-every-other-tech-event) - [Top Must-Visit Developer Conferences in the US in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/679-top-must-visit-developer-conferences-in-the-us-in-2026) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026)