Manager, Software Engineer

Job Title

Manager, Software Engineer

Job Description

Wanna join hospitality business in its massive growth?

We are recruiting a talented Dev manager to join our Channel Manager & Distribution organization and build our next generation cloud native Channel Manager product.

Channel Manager connects tens of thousands of hotels with all the distribution channels. Its goal is to facilitate the distribution of Availability, Rate and Inventory(ARI) and Reservation delivery from 100's of OTAs, GDSs, Wholesalers, Tour Operators, Channel Managers and Meta Partners. Amongst them we of course connect to world known partners like Expedia, Booking.com, Trip.com, Amadeus, Sabre, TravelPort, Agoda,

This component is mission critical with stringent availability and must allow for massive scalability to sustain our future growth ambition.

The key design characteristics of Channel Manager are:

• Speed, scale and stability to support millions ARI events per day.

• Facilitation includes the necessary orchestration, data model translation and translation of messages between Hotels and the Partner.

• UI to facilitate the definition of distribution rules.

• Balance between common platform and customization, to optimize maintainability while answering our customers needs.

By joining this organization, you will discover a brand new architecture, learn a lot technically as functionally in a global environment embracing and taking the best of TravelClick and Amadeus cultures as it is serving our iHotelier CRS (Central reservation System) for mid-size chains as well as our Enterprise grade CRS used by IHG, MGM and Marriott.

As a Dev manager, you will drive a team of Developers, Quality Analysts and Business Analyst, based in the US. You will work closely with Product management teams to build roadmap of development, coordinate resources and shape organization to match your target.

In this role you'll:

• Manage your team located in US, working with other teams based in Europe and India.
• Guide and mentor Engineers, developers, business analysts & quality engineers to ensure focus is kept on delivering high-quality, secure, scalable and performant software solutions.
• Be involved with company and/or organization initiatives that promote best practice policies and employee engagement.
• Build a relation of trust with our partners on business side (Product Marketing, Sales, Implementation, Customer support, Architects ), to help define and prioritize technical and functional backlog items, identify and implement process improvements, take point on production escalations and work through the escalation process to completion.
• Contribute to program vision and roadmap. Negotiate priorities with Product Strategists as well as technical teams
• Build and follow a roadmap of development, coordinate allocation of resources, deliver as per budget and planning

About the ideal candidate:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required, or relevant work experience.
• Relevant Work Experience:
• Experience in managing an R&D team as People manager or Team Leader is a must.
• 5+ years of experience in software architecture and design, preferably building applications in Java.
• 5+ Years in the Hospitality industry is preferred.

Business Understanding:

• Ability to effectively interact with team members at all levels (from team to Senior Leadership) in a fast-paced environment, with a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Exhibit attention to detail, hands-on issue troubleshooting and resolution experience and good listening skills
• Flexibility to accommodate rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to gather, analyse and present data with and to all levels of the organization: Customers, Product Managers, Engineering, Executive Management
• Experience with Microservices and event driven architecture and enterprise system integration is a plus.
• API design experience which includes building customer-facing web services adhering to REST standards is a plus.

Skills:

• Leadership and good interpersonal skills
• Strong capacity for logical thinking and the ability to understand complex applications and systems.
• Proactivity and curiosity
• Very strong communication skills
• Technical skills
• Problem-solving attitude.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to work for one of the world's top leading travel tech companies; a company that originated in technology innovation and sees the world with a technology-first perspective
• Skills development and opportunities to try new ideas
• A global diverse work environment

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition), ancestry, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veterans status, sexual orientation, gender expression, perception, or identity, marital status, mental or physical disability status, or any other protected federal, state, or local status unrelated to performance of work involved.