Sabre
Principal Software Application Architect (Hospitality Solutions)
Sabre, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
Sabre Corporation is a leading technology provider to the global travel and tourism industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre operates offices in approximately 60 countries around the world. At Sabre, we make travel happen. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Today, Sabre is creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. It is our people who develop and deliver powerful solutions that meet the current and future needs or our airline, hotel and travel agency customers. Join our journey!
NOTE:
TPG Capital, a global alternative asset management firm, recently acquired Hospitality Solutions. Over the coming months, Sabre is working with TPG to formally separate the Hospitality Solutions business from Sabre. It is important to understand that while you will be employed by a Sabre legal entity, your role will be to support the Hospitality Solutions business, which is now owned by TPG.
Hospitality Solutions Hospitality Solutions, formerly part of Sabre Holdings, is a global leader at the forefront of hospitality technology powering over 40,000 properties across 174 countries. Celebrated for our innovative and customer‑centric approach, we deliver integrated platforms for distribution, reservations, retailing, and guest experience to both renowned hotel brands and independent properties worldwide.
Principal Applications Architect Job Family Information Technology / Software Development
Job Description Working on the Hospitality Solutions Enterprise Architecture team gives you opportunities to develop your technical, business, and intercultural skills, collaborating with people from all over the world.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Leads, drives, and owns the architecture and design of some of the most complex software systems in Hospitality Solutions.
Architects, designs, and implements new components and sub‑systems.
Uses AI for productivity gains in the SDLC cycle as well as architecting for product features that use AI.
Innovates, envisions, develops long‑term architectural strategy with emphasis on reusable components and a nimble delivery process.
Establishes structures and processes to ensure high levels of quality, reliability, extensibility, and security.
Acts as a technical and operational leader with a passion for microservices, distributed systems, and cloud service development, deployment, and delivery.
Accountable for the design, evolution, quality, performance, scalability, and availability of systems.
Actively contributes to development efforts for key system components.
Reviews architecture and design of existing systems and drives modernization efforts when required.
Delivers technical training within the engineering organization, including onboarding new engineers.
Partners with product management, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to define mid‑ and long‑term roadmaps and influence business direction; drives non‑functional requirements.
Diagnoses system failures in production; works with technical teams to determine root causes and corrective measures.
Drives architectural governance, code reviews, and technology strategy for assigned components.
Applies fundamental skills, concepts, and practices to solve difficult engineering challenges.
Demonstrates broad knowledge of modern technical solutions.
Sets directional paths for department‑wide technology adoption.
AI‑Focused Responsibilities
Integrates
AI/ML capabilities
into product architecture, including personalization engines, anomaly detection, forecasting systems, and intelligent automation.
Defines standards and best practices for
AI model lifecycle management , including data pipelines, model training, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
Evaluates and incorporates emerging
AI frameworks, LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
techniques into the platform.
Partners with data science and engineering teams to design scalable, cloud‑native AI services.
Ensures responsible, secure, and ethical use of AI technologies across the organization.
Leads prototyping and feasibility studies on generative AI applications to accelerate developer productivity and enhance customer experience.
Represents multiple technology domains internally and represents Hospitality Solutions in external technical forums.
Experience
Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience; prior technology lead experience preferred.
Necessary Skills
Strong hands‑on experience building and running large‑scale, highly available systems handling high transaction volumes.
Deep understanding of cloud architectures as well as GCP technology and deployment.
Extensive experience with Service‑Oriented and microservices architecture.
Deep understanding of networks, queuing (MQ, Pub/Sub, TCP/IP), and caching technologies.
Solid experience with large‑scale RDBMS systems and NoSQL stores.
Knowledge of document databases.
Strong experience designing and developing distributed systems.
Expertise in multi‑threading and performance‑oriented programming.
Strong abstraction, coding, and system design skills.
Expert knowledge of
.NET (C#)
and/or
Java .
Expert‑level understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and best practices.
Good QA awareness and the use of AI with QA processes (Unit Tests, TDD, Performance Tests).
Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal.
Proven leadership & mentoring ability.
AI‑Related Skills
Experience integrating
machine learning or AI‑driven components
into enterprise systems.
Familiarity with
ML pipelines, feature stores, model monitoring , and cloud‑based AI/ML services (Vertex AI, or equivalent).
Nice to Have Skills
Agile
Git
Document databases
Oracle
Cassandra
.NET Core
Splunk
Couchbase
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
Experience with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit‑learn)
Experience with LLM‑based services or MLOps frameworks
Education
B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent.
Outstanding Benefits
Very competitive compensation
Generous Paid Time Off (25 PTO days)
4 days (one day/quarter) Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
5 days off annually for Year‑End Break
We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and Wellness Program
12 weeks paid parental leave
An infrastructure that allows flexible working arrangements
Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
Lots of fun and engaging employee development events
Reasonable Accommodation Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre's Compliance Office at compliance.office@sabre.com
Affirmative Action Sabre is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans, and disabled individuals.
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NOTE:
TPG Capital, a global alternative asset management firm, recently acquired Hospitality Solutions. Over the coming months, Sabre is working with TPG to formally separate the Hospitality Solutions business from Sabre. It is important to understand that while you will be employed by a Sabre legal entity, your role will be to support the Hospitality Solutions business, which is now owned by TPG.
Hospitality Solutions Hospitality Solutions, formerly part of Sabre Holdings, is a global leader at the forefront of hospitality technology powering over 40,000 properties across 174 countries. Celebrated for our innovative and customer‑centric approach, we deliver integrated platforms for distribution, reservations, retailing, and guest experience to both renowned hotel brands and independent properties worldwide.
Principal Applications Architect Job Family Information Technology / Software Development
Job Description Working on the Hospitality Solutions Enterprise Architecture team gives you opportunities to develop your technical, business, and intercultural skills, collaborating with people from all over the world.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Leads, drives, and owns the architecture and design of some of the most complex software systems in Hospitality Solutions.
Architects, designs, and implements new components and sub‑systems.
Uses AI for productivity gains in the SDLC cycle as well as architecting for product features that use AI.
Innovates, envisions, develops long‑term architectural strategy with emphasis on reusable components and a nimble delivery process.
Establishes structures and processes to ensure high levels of quality, reliability, extensibility, and security.
Acts as a technical and operational leader with a passion for microservices, distributed systems, and cloud service development, deployment, and delivery.
Accountable for the design, evolution, quality, performance, scalability, and availability of systems.
Actively contributes to development efforts for key system components.
Reviews architecture and design of existing systems and drives modernization efforts when required.
Delivers technical training within the engineering organization, including onboarding new engineers.
Partners with product management, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to define mid‑ and long‑term roadmaps and influence business direction; drives non‑functional requirements.
Diagnoses system failures in production; works with technical teams to determine root causes and corrective measures.
Drives architectural governance, code reviews, and technology strategy for assigned components.
Applies fundamental skills, concepts, and practices to solve difficult engineering challenges.
Demonstrates broad knowledge of modern technical solutions.
Sets directional paths for department‑wide technology adoption.
AI‑Focused Responsibilities
Integrates
AI/ML capabilities
into product architecture, including personalization engines, anomaly detection, forecasting systems, and intelligent automation.
Defines standards and best practices for
AI model lifecycle management , including data pipelines, model training, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
Evaluates and incorporates emerging
AI frameworks, LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
techniques into the platform.
Partners with data science and engineering teams to design scalable, cloud‑native AI services.
Ensures responsible, secure, and ethical use of AI technologies across the organization.
Leads prototyping and feasibility studies on generative AI applications to accelerate developer productivity and enhance customer experience.
Represents multiple technology domains internally and represents Hospitality Solutions in external technical forums.
Experience
Minimum 7 years of professional software development experience; prior technology lead experience preferred.
Necessary Skills
Strong hands‑on experience building and running large‑scale, highly available systems handling high transaction volumes.
Deep understanding of cloud architectures as well as GCP technology and deployment.
Extensive experience with Service‑Oriented and microservices architecture.
Deep understanding of networks, queuing (MQ, Pub/Sub, TCP/IP), and caching technologies.
Solid experience with large‑scale RDBMS systems and NoSQL stores.
Knowledge of document databases.
Strong experience designing and developing distributed systems.
Expertise in multi‑threading and performance‑oriented programming.
Strong abstraction, coding, and system design skills.
Expert knowledge of
.NET (C#)
and/or
Java .
Expert‑level understanding of OOP principles, design patterns, and best practices.
Good QA awareness and the use of AI with QA processes (Unit Tests, TDD, Performance Tests).
Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal.
Proven leadership & mentoring ability.
AI‑Related Skills
Experience integrating
machine learning or AI‑driven components
into enterprise systems.
Familiarity with
ML pipelines, feature stores, model monitoring , and cloud‑based AI/ML services (Vertex AI, or equivalent).
Nice to Have Skills
Agile
Git
Document databases
Oracle
Cassandra
.NET Core
Splunk
Couchbase
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
Experience with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit‑learn)
Experience with LLM‑based services or MLOps frameworks
Education
B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent.
Outstanding Benefits
Very competitive compensation
Generous Paid Time Off (25 PTO days)
4 days (one day/quarter) Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
5 days off annually for Year‑End Break
We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and Wellness Program
12 weeks paid parental leave
An infrastructure that allows flexible working arrangements
Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
Lots of fun and engaging employee development events
Reasonable Accommodation Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre's Compliance Office at compliance.office@sabre.com
Affirmative Action Sabre is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans, and disabled individuals.
EEO IS THE LAW Stay connected with Sabre Careers
#J-18808-Ljbffr