Director, Platform Systems — Travel-Tech Leader

CO_201 G Adventures Development Inc (Barbados) US Branch; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel perks

Extra days off

Parental leave

Learning & growth opportunities

Employee groups

Job summary

G Adventures seeks a Director of Platform Systems to lead evolution of software and infra platforms, directing engineering and DevOps to build a customer-centric platform for trip customization and management across the G Travel Community portfolio.

You will architect and scale AWS infrastructure, mentor managers and staff, and drive global strategy with offshore delivery, reporting to the VP of Global Technology.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development, ideally with some in travel and tourism or related industries.
• 10+ years of technical management experience
• 5+ years of AWS solutions architecture & services such as S3, ALB, ECS, RDS/Aurora, Elasticache, Lambda, SQS
• Experience establishing and growing offshore teams
• Proficiency with architecting CI/CD, accessible logging, performance monitoring, and issue dashboards using tools such as CircleCI, Datadog, Sentry
• Operational experience with infrastructure provisioning/configuration tools such as Ansible, Terraform
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Detailed knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Foundational background of writing code with the ability to read code in a variety of languages, ideally Python, Go, JavaScript
• Fundamental understanding of data modeling and impact on database designs, clustering and replication
• Foundational background working and building in an API driven architecture, creating scalability for interconnected systems organization wide
• Demonstrated experience engaging with all levels of management including senior level executives and proven ability to manage relationships both horizontally and vertically
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles and Kanban/Agile methodologies
• University bachelor’s degree in computer science or related experience

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of strategies that meet business objectives and enable critical decision making
• Present acquisitions integrations by identifying system synergies and gap analysis
• Develop white labeling and back office opportunities leveraging proprietary systems
• Lead build vs buy decisions aligning with product requirements and customer needs
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Project Managers to scope projects with stakeholders and mitigate risks
• Evolve the SDLC to improve delivery and predictability of timelines
• Define, report and analyze metrics to inform development practices
• Identify engineering challenges and guide architecture toward scalable solutions
• Define the architecture for AWS infrastructure hosting applications
• Oversee offshore team expansion and multi-region networking strategies
• Mentor and grow managers and senior contributors; manage performance reviews
• Lead policy and process definitions across distributed teams
• Communicate progress to executives and manage stakeholder expectations

Skills

Software development

Technical management

AWS architecture

Offshore teams

CI/CD

Logging & monitoring

Agile methodologies

Code literacy across languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

CircleCI

Datadog

Sentry

Ansible

Terraform

AWS ECS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

G Adventures seeks a Director of Platform Systems to lead evolution of software and infra platforms, directing engineering and DevOps to build a customer-centric platform for trip customization and management across the G Travel Community portfolio.

You will architect and scale AWS infrastructure, mentor managers and staff, and drive global strategy with offshore delivery, reporting to the VP of Global Technology.