Royal Caribbean Group · 2 weeks ago
Lead Architect, Application Platforms
Miami, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
15+ years expRoyal Caribbean Group is a leader in the vacation industry, offering a competitive compensation and benefits package. The Lead Architect, Application Platforms is responsible for providing technical architecture and leadership in the Enterprise Architecture team, focusing on application platforms and cloud services.
Travel
Responsibilities
Provide Technical architecture and guidance to management as it relates to various enterprise IT systems
Provide platform architecture, roadmaps and designs for application runtimes that encompasses network, systems, middleware, database and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
Create reference architecture artifacts
Evaluate Application Portfolios and develop modernization portfolios and strategy
Work closely with application, server and operations teams, effectively communicating and managing customer expectations
Provide enterprise architecture technical leadership for global initiatives and implementation collaboration with project and operations teams
Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery in the SME areas
Serves as escalation point for system administration hands on work in the SME areas
Hands on R & D work for evaluating new technologies
Serves as escalation point for support and troubleshooting, provides guidance and direction in resolution of escalated application or system problems
Create and maintain system documentation for solution design, domain technologies
Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation
Strong technical leadership and communications skills including teamwork, facilitation, and coordination to ensure successful creation of roadmaps
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience with IT architecture, data centers, middleware, database and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services in a large enterprise
Bachelor's degree required, with an MS/MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred
Experience with application & middleware technology family of products
Architecture and design experience with application platform implementations
Experience in DevOps, DevSecOps and Application Performance Management implementations
Platform design and implementation experience with projects that encompass digital, webservices, microservices, API gateways etc
Experience with docker/container platforms that includes Kubernetes, etc
Experience in administering messaging solutions that include Confluent Kafka, etc
Strong knowledge of operating systems and virtualization technologies
Experience with middleware clustering and load balancing
Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI
Proficiency in project estimations, capacity planning, and availability planning
Documentation and development of processes and procedures
Experienced in managing 100+ applications
Automation and Scripting experience
Experience as team lead or architect
Experience with Architecture frameworks like Zachman, FEA, TOGAF, MODAF/DODAF
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Excellent career development opportunities
Company
Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group is a cruise vacation company with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling around the world.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15.43BKey Investors
RCI HoldingsMorgan Stanley
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $2.28B
2024-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
Leadership Team
Jason Liberty
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Matt Denesuk
SVP, Chief AI Officer
Recent News
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2026-01-07
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