Summary:
The Opportunity
Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an enthusiastic Product Architect to join our Digital Sales & Events team. In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the broader digital, technology and business teams, where you'll be instrumental in continuing to make Hyatt a leading hospitality company. You will be part of a team that is passionate about our purpose, committed to nurturing curiosity and new skills, and building connections across the organization with colleagues, customers, and guests.
The Role
The Product Architect provides architectural leadership for a digital product area, with a primary focus on data architecture. This role develops a deep understanding of Hyatt's legacy data models, systems, and integrations, and helps product and engineering teams make sound decisions as business requirements evolve.
The Product Architect assesses how proposed capabilities and changes affect the data model, data flows, integrations, and downstream consumers. They work with product, engineering, database, and platform teams to define solutions that preserve data integrity and support reliable, secure, and scalable applications.
• Understand and document core legacy data models, including how key entities, business rules, and integrations are used across the Hyatt ecosystem.
• Translate business requirements into data and application architecture, identifying impacts to existing models, interfaces, processes, and downstream systems.
• Provide architectural direction across the product area, including application services, APIs, integrations, and platform dependencies, so solutions meet business needs and work reliably across the broader ecosystem.
• Evaluate options and recommend architectural direction, explaining tradeoffs and implications for the product and its data.
• Guide teams on data design, relational modeling, SQL, APIs, event-driven integration, and application architecture patterns.
• Coordinate solution strategies across teams so systems and data integrations work together and can scale.
• Identify and optimize recurring operational processes that depend on product data and systems, such as monthly and annual sales data cycles. Coordinate execution, clarify ownership and controls, and reduce manual effort and failure risk.
• Define and coordinate operational validation after maintenance windows, releases, and other system changes. Confirm that critical applications, integrations, and data processes are functioning as expected, and ensure issues are triaged and resolved with the responsible teams.
• Establish and document architecture decisions, standards, and reference designs, including through RFCs.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders, and mentor engineers in data design, scalability, reliability, and operational practices.
• Evaluate tools and frameworks when they address a clear product or architecture need.
Qualifications:
Experience Required:
• 10+ years of experience working in complex enterprise technology environments, including software engineering or architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing application and data architectures for scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational database design, data modeling, and data migration.
• Experience analyzing business requirements and determining their impact on existing data models, integrations, and downstream consumers.
• Experience planning data and application integrations across operational databases, data warehouses or lakes, and external APIs.
• Experience designing or supporting 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 improving and coordinating recurring business or technology operations, including scheduled data processes, post-maintenance validation, issue triage, and cross-team follow-through.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to explain architectural tradeoffs to technical and business partners.
• Working knowledge of modern application development and delivery practices, including Java-based services, source control, CI/CD, and cloud or container platforms.
Experience Preferred:
• Experience with Hyatt's systems or similarly complex legacy enterprise data environments.
• Experience with dimensional modeling and data warehousing.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all-encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.
We welcome you:
Research shows that individuals tend to apply to jobs only if they meet all the listed job qualifications. Unsure if you check every box, but feeling inspired to enhance your career? Apply. We'd love to consider your unique experiences and how you could make Hyatt even better.
We value our relationships with recruitment partners and require that agencies contact us first before submitting any candidates. Hyatt will not be responsible for any fees and obligations associated with unsolicited submissions unless a formal agreement is in place.
The salary range for this position is $130,000 to $155,000. This position is also eligible to earn incentive awards and an annual bonus.The final pay rate/salary offered to the successful candidate will depend on experience, skill level and other qualifications for the role, as well as the location of the performance of work. Pay for the successful candidate will meet local requirements, including the local minimum wage rate.
