Enterprise Principal Software Architect, Expedia Group
$202.5-309.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $324,000 (Chicago) and up to $353,500 (Austin)
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$202.5-309.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $324,000 (Chicago) and up to $353,500 (Austin)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Participated in peer’s performance reviews by providing technical assessment and feedback
- Defined software engineering/architecture best practices at a department/organizational level
- Makes choices across teams to apply a number of technologies or languages
- Presents new technology choices to technical and non-technical observers
- Serves as an expert for multiple domains
- Guides others to make well defined technology choices
- Establishes approaches to solving technical opportunities that interact across a business unit
- Understanding of systems being created across EG and how own business unit would integrate with them
- Ability to understand and design highly complex systems
- Has mastered software design best practices, shapes coding methodologies and best practices and evangelizes adoption of new platform technologies
- Presents new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers
- Expert for multiple domains
- Guide others to make well-defined technology choices
- Creates systems that interact across a business unit
- Understands systems being created across Expedia Group (EG) and how own business unit would integrate with them
- Understands and designs highly complex systems
- Establishes standards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level
- Drives principles and practices to guide others in design of software that is easily testable and observable
- Understands cross domain capabilities and how they integrate together
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of experience; or Master's degree in a related field and 10+ years of experience
What the job involves
- We establish standards and patterns for EG architecture which are incorporated across all our domains and enterprise technology to ensure all systems at Expedia Group adhere to the non-functional requirements. With those standards and patterns in hand, we assist our business partners with understanding architecture and why it is so important for everyone to be a part of.
- As a team - We look to each other for guidance and push one another to simplify. We trust one another and we choose fearlessly. We are inclusive and through that we go get what’s next. Above all else – we have fun
- Partner with technologists across all of EG to collaboratively solve problems
- Support and inform EG technologists via a community of practice
- Build relationships with leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to solve them
- Design a technology stack that is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line
- Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote effectiveness in the department or business unit/function
- Provide active mentorship and rising talent identification
- Fill in for peer engineering director as need arises in setting technical next steps in co-ordination with engineering management
- Develop north star vision for domain in which they are focused
- Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem
- Identify areas for improvement and develops innovative enhancements using available software development tools following design requirements of customer
- Advocate for designing software that is scalable, resilient and stable
- Have deep knowledge of entire system and ability to jump into code in any component to fire fight and contribute
- Make decisions on product technology direction based on deep subject matter knowledge
- Expertise of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Lead collaboration with key stakeholders and contributes subject matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues
- Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which polices/processes should be standardized and which should differ
- Provide guidance when evaluating the impacts of a solution to ensure linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Keep abreast of broad industry trends and develops methods for implementing them in our environment
- Identify when new trends may be too disruptive for a reasonable implementation or spot the ephemerality of new trends
- Understand that technology or automation doesn't solve every problem
- Champion prioritized initiatives across the local organization and work with others across EG to investigate those initiatives
- Ensure documentation is not overwhelming or obsolete
Our take
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
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Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 401K Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Force Simplicity
- Include Consciously
- Trust Each Other
- Go Get What's Next
- Choose Fearlessly
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
People progressing
Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.
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