Senior Product Architect: Data & API Excellence

Hyatt; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an enthusiastic Product Architect to join our Digital Sales & Events team, collaborating across digital, technology and business teams to drive data-centric solutions. You’ll help Hyatt remain a leading hospitality brand by shaping data models, integrations, and scalable architectures.

The role emphasizes guiding engineers, defining standards, and partnering with stakeholders to ensure robust, secure product ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational database design.
• Experience designing data pipelines and integrations; familiarity with event-driven architectures and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with REST APIs and integration platforms such as Apigee or nginx.
• Experience analyzing business requirements and determining their impact on data models and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for a digital product area with a focus on data architecture.
• Document core legacy data models and how key entities and rules are used across Hyatt.
• Translate business requirements into data and application architecture.
• Define solutions to preserve data integrity and support scalable applications.
• Guide teams on data design, relational modeling, SQL, APIs, and event-driven integration.
• Coordinate solution strategies across teams to ensure scalable data integrations.
• Define architecture decisions, standards, and reference designs via RFCs.
• mentor engineers in data design, scalability, reliability, and operational practices.
• Evaluate tools and frameworks for clear product or architecture needs.

Skills

SQL skills

Relational data modeling

Data migration

REST APIs

Java-based services

Event-driven architectures

Apache Kafka

CI/CD

Cloud or container platforms

Data pipelines and integrations

APIs and integration platforms (Apigee

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Apigee

nginx

Job description

Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an enthusiastic Product Architect to join our Digital Sales & Events team, collaborating across digital, technology and business teams to drive data-centric solutions. You’ll help Hyatt remain a leading hospitality brand by shaping data models, integrations, and scalable architectures.

The role emphasizes guiding engineers, defining standards, and partnering with stakeholders to ensure robust, secure product ecosystems.