Our aim, as the Altéa business line of Amadeus is to become the airline’s trusted business partner, supporting their business strategy by understanding their business needs and delivering high value, end-to-end solutions tailored to those needs. Modern retailing will gradually replace existing PSS and supporting systems in the Airline IT industry. The Altéa business line is defining and positioning its next gen portfolio (“Next Gen Altéa”) addressing this transformation by engaging lead customers.

Architecture of NGA is key considering that we want to design One consistent NGA solution leveraging the full power of Platform & Cloud technology, a Security trusted environment and new Offer & Order enablers to support the Airlines’ own IT in its retailing transition with IT excellence

As part of the new ‘’Altéa Product Portfolio Management - IT Excellence” team, the Altea Transversal Portfolio Business Architects are responsible to :
• Rationalize & Normalize the NGA architecture across the entire Portfolio
• Federate all initiatives to define the reference NGA business architecture
• Define, review and validate - though NGA Strategic Studies Review Top Management forum - the new NGA Business Capabilities
• Ensure Business Capabilities consistency cross-BDs, cross Functions (PM, Mkt, Cial) and cross layers (Saas, Creation Platform, Cloud platform)
• Communicate on NGA vision and strategy around the Business architecture
(Blueprint, key Business Architectures principles, pre-sales support)

Your main responsibilities

The architecture of Nevio is key considering that we want to design an innovative and consistent solution based on state of the art retailing concepts, leveraging the full power of Platform & Cloud technology within a secure trusted environment.

As Nevio Transversal Portfolio Business Specialist, your 's core mission is to:

• Rationalize & normalize the future business architecture across the entire portfolio of products.

• Federate and facilitate all initiatives to define the reference NGA business architecture .

• Define, review and validate the new Nevio Business Capabilities.

• Ensure Business Capabilities consistency cross Nevio functional domains (aka Business Domains), cross Functions (Product Management, Product marketing and Commercial ) and cross the different layers of the solutions

• Communicate on Nevio vision and strategy around the Business architecture (Blueprint, key Business Architectures principles and support to Pre Sales teams)

Manage Nevio Portfolio Business Architecture

• Deliver and maintain the Nevio business architecture blueprint:

• Support the portfolio vision in terms of modularity, openness, and simplification

• Align with and provide inputs for Commercial portfolio positioning and packaging guidelines:

• Lead the definition process of the products portfolio in scope:

  • Defining expected logical interaction between modules.

  • Creating a high-level framework of requirements and solution canvas from which functional and technical engineering teams can build a solution

• Participate to the various forums to present the above deliverables via studies, presentations… and more largely communicate on Nevio Business Architecture scope

• Formalize and validate business capabilities in order to enter execution within Portfolio Epic

Ensure end-to-end architecture consistency

• Organize/participate to business and functional/technical architecture studies with Nevio functional solution team and/or Technical Architect community if needed.

• Ensure Business architecture principles application.

• Identify modules with common business capabilities and dependencies, avoid overlaps, while closely monitor and support new initiatives that could impact the Nevio business architecture

• Be facilitator for transversal epics promoted by a business domain requiring business architecture alignment with other business domains

Engage multi-dimension c ollaboration

• With the Amadeus Engineering community to ensure `

  • deliverables in scope are compatible with Technical Strategy

  • consistency from business to functional and technical architecture

• With Commercial and Solutions streams in order to

  • Define business architecture inputs for Business Domains teams:

  • Deliver Architecture inputs for pre-sales engagements:

  • Define business architecture inputs required for commercial model definitions.

About our ideal candidate

• At least 5 years’ experience overseeing a full product from inception to sunset.

• Background & understanding on Platform and Cloud technologies and concepts

• Enterprise Architecture experience / understanding is a big plus

• Strong analytical and communication skills to handle and simplify complex transversal subjects

• Experience in airline or travel business would be a plus

• Experience of Agile/Scrum methods, especially SAFe (or similar) would be a plus

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.