TUI Group is a leading integrated tourism business seeking to become a leader in technology within the travel industry. It is looking for a Technology Architect to lead the TUI Hotels & Resorts technology organization, which designs, develops, maintains and operates all services for its own, managed and franchise hotels. The Technology Architect will take ownership of the MACH architecture for event and activity bookings, concierge services and table reservations for Hotels & Resorts, continuously innovating IT processes and adapting them to market trends. He or she will identify and implement improvement architectural practices in an agile environment, ensure technical implementation is in accordance with enterprise and solution architecture standards, and maintain a strong understanding of the latest innovations, technologies, patterns and practices in MACH Architectures with Java Frameworks. The Technology Architect must be a thought leader in Microservice, API, Cloud practices, active member of global Java and Spring Boot communities, and possess strong expertise of Java language as well as its eco-system and tooling. The Technology Architect must also be an experienced architect with a passion for technology and MACH architecture, and have proven track record in designing architecture blueprints to drive development and innovation. In addition, the Technology Architect must be a great communicator and facilitator comfortable working across organisational and market boundaries, managing senior stakeholders, disagreeing yet aligning, and integrating architecture practices in an agile way of working. TUI offers a competitive salary, pension scheme, life assurance, generous holiday entitlement and holiday discounts, forward-thinking ways of working, TUI time off, purchase of additional holiday entitlement, excellent rates with foreign exchange, and discounts with retailers.