Job Title
Lead Principal Engineer
Amadeus Hospitality Distribution is seeking an experienced and skilled Lead Principal Engineer to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for defining, driving, and maintaining the design and solution for the development of Amadeus Hospitality Distribution products.
The Amadeus Hospitality Distribution products provide critical hotel distribution functions to our customers that assist them in increasing distribution across channels, increasing sales and profitability. Ensuring access to the right data at the right time helps our customers accelerate revenue for long term growth.
With Amadeus’ Hotel Distribution Solutions, customers unlock a complete view and availability of rate, occupancy, and distribution trends with both forward-looking and historical data.
Specific accountabilities:
- Is responsible for the design and solution throughout the lifecycle development taking into consideration system constraints and enterprise architecture strategic directions
- Directs and coordinates studies for their functional area
- Identifies modelling, simulation and prototyping opportunities
- Articulates the design to the development teams
- Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools
- Design for all the NFR and define the tech quality standards
- Contributes to the architect community, educates, studies options, and recommends evolutions
Common accountabilities
- Proficient in technical knowledge to ensure team performs at a high level. Is recognized as a leader in own area and may formally train Specialists/Senior Specialists.
- Understands how main business drivers may impact on own area. Can assess complex problems with broad impact on the activity, improve processes, recommend solutions and risk mitigation plans. Able to communicate complex information.
- Works with a high level of autonomy, based on management directions. Leads projects or contributes to broad cross-functional projects. May contribute to planning of resources and budget.
Specific Technologies
- Command over C++ as well as Java and Python
- Azure/AWS
- Database – RDBMS and NOSQL
- Dockers and Kubernetes
- CI/CD, Helm
- Kafka
- RESTful API practices
- SOAP and GraphQL
- PowerBI – Good to have
- React and Angular (Good to have)
Continuous Improvement
Suggest evolution of the component and make recommendations on how to manage the debt of the code / clean up the code
Improve the technical aspect of the project delivery and provide recommendations for engineering process improvement
Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing
Actively contributing to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members (junior members) technical coaching and mentoring (give an answer, provide feedback)
Contributing to PE community events
Defining training content and/or delivering training (to evolve per level)
Diversity & Inclusion
Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.
Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.
Top Skills
What We Do
Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want, linking them via travel agents, search engines and tour operators to airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.
Technology has always been critical to developing global travel, increasing scale, choice and access. We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for 30 years.
We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, and critical systems our customers need.
