
WDS Architect
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: San Antonio • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $160,800 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead architecture efforts for collaboration platforms and ecosystems, establish standards and governance, and partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to define current and target state architectures and a 3 year roadmap for the domain
- Meet business stakeholders and engineering teams to capture perspectives and align direction
- Engage with the IT Architecture community through formal and informal venues
- Brief business stakeholders and present architecture recommendations to leadership
- Familiarize with the domain, review current and past domain assessments
- Document a new domain assessment including current state gaps, risks, and recommendations
- Develop and showcase a 3 year roadmap with current state and target state architectures and a transition plan
- Create and maintain Standards, Waivers, Tech Decisions, and Assessments
- Understand and apply architecture processes and governance equivalent to established organizational practices
- Contribute to Business of Architecture activities, set direction, govern direction, and govern portfolio processes
- Support governance processes for app approval, data classification, and lifecycle policies
- Drive technical decisions and ensure alignment with established standards and waivers
- Review and proof artifacts with peer architects, Tech Fellow, Director, and engineering community
Requirements
- Deep experience with major collaboration suites: Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Slack Enterprise Grid, Zoom, Box
- Experience with collaboration telemetry, analytics, and adoption dashboards; knowledge of the Aternity platform
- Understanding of platform extensibility, AI features, APIs, app frameworks, bots, workflows
- Ability to evaluate SaaS vendors, licensing models, and feature roadmaps
- Expertise in identity and access management (e.g., Azure AD, Okta), including conditional access, MFA, SSO, and least privilege models
- Familiarity with secure data handling practices (DLP and encryption)
- Solution architecture skills to translate business requirements into scalable architectures and define functional/nonfunctional requirements, performance, availability, compliance
- Road mapping governance expertise to define platform roadmaps with versioning and deprecation plans
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
solution architecturecollaboration telemetryanalyticsSaaS evaluationidentity and access managementconditional accessmulti-factor authenticationsingle sign-ondata loss preventionencryption
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder engagementcommunicationgovernancedocumentationtechnical decision-makingcollaborationdirection setting