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