**Must have the ability to work onsite in Dallas**

**Must be able to work W2 for any employer**

Application Architect

Top Skills

• Strong .NET experience
• Experience owning deliverables as an architect with the ability to speak to those deliverables
• Experience in a high-transaction environment
• Prefer someone with experience/understanding of Data analytics/AI and how to leverage it from an architectural standpoint
• C#, Java, Cloud, GCP

Responsibilities

• Lead, drive and own the architecture and design of some of the client's most complex software systems. Design and implement new components and sub-systems
• Envision and develop the long-term architectural strategy, with emphasis on reusable components while adopting a nimble delivery process
• Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality and reliability and extensibility of deliverables
• Act as a technical and operational leader with a passion for microservices, distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery
• Review architecture and design of the existing systems and redesign them whenever necessary
• Deliver technical training within the engineering organization, including training new engineers
• Work with product management, business stakeholders and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term and long-term roadmaps as well as shape business directions; drives the non-functional requirements of the product
• Diagnose system failures and problems in production and work with the technical staff to identify root causes and address them
• Drive code and design reviews of components in scope and drive the architectural governance for them
• Set directional paths for the teams/department for the adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems
• Visibly represent multiple technology domains internally, and represent Sabre in external technical forums

Qualifications And Education Requirements

• Expert knowledge of .NET framework (C# language) and/or Java
• Strong hands-on technology experience building and running large-scale, highly available systems handling high volume of transactions
• Deep understanding of cloud architectures and GCP technology and deployment
• Deep exposure to Service Oriented Architecture
• Deep understanding of network, queuing (MQ, pubsub, TCP/IP) and caching (Memcached) technologies
• Solid experience in large-scale RDBMS systems and NoSQL stores
• Knowledge of Document databases - Couchbase preferred
• Strong design/development experience in building large-scale distributed systems and products
• Expertise in multi-threading and performance-oriented programming
• A solid engineer at heart with excellent abstraction, coding, and system design skills and a deep passion and curiosity for technology
• Expert understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and best programming practices
• Good QA awareness (Unit Tests, TDD, Performance tests)
• Proven leadership ability