IT Architect

**About Us**

IHG is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, promising to provide True Hospitality for everyone; making you feel welcome and cared for, recognized and respected, wherever you are in the world. Strong future plans and recent successes, especially across the luxury space is what has made us stand out from the crowd. Join us and not only can you benefit from the world of variety and opportunity, you can also look forward to being part of a company that will appreciate you for simply being you. At IHG we celebrate our differences, and we believe everyone has something unique to bring to each team. IHG is an equal opportunity employer, employing people based solely on their skills and qualifications. Discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any protected category is banned in our policies. At IHG, we understand the importance of operating responsibly and sustainably - it is absolutely core to our business and culture. In recent years, we have made important progress in targeting operational, people-led and environmental issues most material to us and our stakeholders, broadening our focus and our impact as part of our promise to provide True Hospitality for Good. We are proud of our progress on what is a journey towards making an increasingly positive difference to our people, communities and the world around us.

**Your day to day**

**What we need from you**

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Education - Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience. - Experience - Typically a minimum of 10+ years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position. - Technical skills and Knowledge - Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported. - Understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family. - Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL). - Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS‐9000, FDA, Six Sigma). - Required Skills: - Middleware Focused: - Java - ESB e.g. Fuse - REST - Enterprise Caching Architectures e.g. Gemfire - Service Oriented Architectures - Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka and MQ - Micro Service Architecture - Public Facing APIs and API Gateways - Enterprise Integration Patterns - Data Transformation and ETL - Data Focused: - Big Data - Data Design Principles and Best Practices - Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms - Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions (Teradata, Oracle, no-SQL databases) - BI tools (OBI, Business Objects, Tableau, Essbase, Alteryx) - Analytic Tools (SAS, R) - Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence - Forecast and Demand Planning Applications - Master Data Management Applications Hot Skills - Middleware Focused: - Web Application - Native Application - Property Management System - Mainframe - Big Data - Relational Data - Reporting and Analytics - Data Focused: - Hospitality Data

**What we offer**

ACCOUNTABILITY - Number of employees supervised: Direct 0; Indirect 0 - Decision making responsibilities (Key Decisions Rights) - Architectural Decision Maker on Projects for which Individual is Leading - Member of Architectural Guild and Working Groups - undefined. CONTACTS (Key Relationships) Internal Key Relationships This position will work closely with client management, IT development teams, support teams, data center resources, IT management to discuss projects, provide recommendations on improvement opportunities and operating and financial performance. External Key Relationships Key vendors, professional associations, industry experts to keep informed of existing and evolving industry standards undefined. Work Environment - Work is typically performed in a normal office environment The statements in this job description are intended to represent the key duties, essential nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be all responsibilities or qualifications of the job.