Senior AI & Cloud Enterprise Architect

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape our AI architecture, platforms, and practices across the organization. You will lead AI & cloud architectures to a cloud-native, scalable data/API ecosystem, setting pragmatic reference architectures and guardrails for teams to deliver secure, compliant data products.

Your day-to-day includes defining long-term AI roadmaps, prototyping foundational AI platforms, and guiding modernization from legacy data stores to cloud-native

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent.
• 7–10 years in architecture/design/delivery with enterprise experience or 7–10 years in solution architecture in technology and security.
• Experience across architecture domains: application, data, infrastructure, security, integration.
• Proven strategic thinking, leadership, and vendor negotiation skills.
• Experience communicating with executives and translating business needs into technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term AI-centric enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Design and prototype AI platforms, core services, and data platforms.
• Lead legacy modernization to cloud-native architectures.
• Architect data warehouses and lakehouse architectures for enterprise use.
• Establish patterns for data ingestion, transformation, and observability.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance are embedded in architecture decisions.
• Influence stakeholders across business, product, engineering, and security.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and translate business strategy into multi-year technical plans.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI platforms & cloud architectures

Stakeholder leadership

Strong communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Relevant field

Tools

Google Gemini

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IHG Hotels & Resorts is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape our AI architecture, platforms, and practices across the organization. You will lead AI & cloud architectures to a cloud-native, scalable data/API ecosystem, setting pragmatic reference architectures and guardrails for teams to deliver secure, compliant data products.

Your day-to-day includes defining long-term AI roadmaps, prototyping foundational AI platforms, and guiding modernization from legacy data stores to cloud-native