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Lead Architect, Application Platforms Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our incredible team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group . We are proud to be the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations, and the best people. Royal Caribbean Group’s IT Architecture Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Lead Architect, Application Platforms reporting to the Senior Manager, Technical Product. The Lead Architect - Application Platforms is responsible for architecture and technical leadership in our Enterprise Architecture (EA) team, which works on enterprise-wide initiatives. The Enterprise Architect is responsible for technology architecture roadmaps, design, and technical leadership for various projects, with SME ownership for architecture functions in multiple areas of application platform (network, data center, systems, DB, middleware, etc.) and help architect application deployment to the on-premise data centers and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms. 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 encompass network, systems, middleware, database, and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). 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. Serve as escalation point for support and troubleshooting, providing guidance and direction in resolution of escalated application or system problems. 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, web services, microservices, API gateways, etc. Experience with docker/container platforms that includes Kubernetes, etc. Experience with middleware clustering and load balancing. Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI. Proficiency in project estimations, capacity planning, and availability planning. 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. Able to travel 25%. #J-18808-Ljbffr Royal Caribbean Group

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