Senior solution architect (sydney)

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We're building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to team

Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services - helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.

Make an impact

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and delivering complex software solutions for strategic B2B partners using Expedia Group's white label travel platform. Sitting on the Professional Services Existing Business team within the Expedia Group B2B Product & Technology organization, this role brings together customer needs, platform capabilities, and engineering execution to define custom and scalable solutions that unlock partner growth, accelerate adoption, and create long-term value. You will play a highly visible role with customers and internal teams, translating business problems into practical technical designs that drive successful outcomes.

In this role, you will

• Partner directly with customers, sales, product, and engineering teams to understand business goals, technical requirements, and solution opportunities.
• Define end-to-end software and solution packages that address customer needs by leveraging Expedia Group platform capabilities.
• Design scalable application solutions and services with consideration for architecture, integrations, APIs, data flows, compliance, security, resiliency, operational readiness, and internal and external system requirements.
• Act as a primary technical interface for customers and their engineering teams, building trust and guiding solution direction.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support the selection and adoption of the right technology components to solve current customer needs while enabling future growth.
• Use AI to drive innovation and deliver best-in-class solutions that strengthen our competitive advantage in the travel market.

Experience and qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including at least 5 years in a Software Solution Architect or closely related role designing software-based technical solutions for customer needs.
• Computer Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics, or related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• You have strong experience solving complex technology problems and explaining them clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• You have demonstrated experience leading long-term technical relationships with clients, with a proven record of strong communication and presentation skills.
• You bring strong technical depth in backend software, services, AI, APIs, integrations, and platform-based architecture.
• You are comfortable operating in a senior customer-facing role and partnering across engineering and cross-functional teams to move from discovery through implementation.
• You use sound judgment to balance customer requirements, platform strategy, simplicity, and long-term scalability.
• You are effective at building trust, collaborating across teams, and driving outcomes in complex environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in AI and its application to software engineering, with a proven ability to define strategy and lead the design, adoption, and scaling of AI-enabled solutions across complex enterprise environments

Preferred qualifications

• You have strong experience in technical software solution design and consulting or responding to complex partner or customer technical requirements.
• You have created detailed system architecture, solution designs, implementation approaches and MVP scope recommendations for customer-facing software solutions.
• You have experience in travel technology, platform businesses, or B2B partner-facing environments.
• You have strong experience with system integrations such as identity, loyalty, reporting, data or other application enablement capabilities.
• You are comfortable working across customer, commercial, and engineering stakeholders to shape practical, scalable solutions.
• You are comfortable and have experience in presenting system solutions to both technical and commercial executives and senior leaders.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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