Chief Architect

Chief Architect

Location: Netherlands / Hybrid / Remote
Job Type: Internship, Freelance, Parttime, Fulltime | Income Progression Roadmap
Industry: Hospitality / Property Management / PropTech
Responsibilities: In consultation

The Role

As Chief Architect, you will own the long-term technical architecture and technology principles of Domits.

You will establish the architectural direction that enables Domits to scale across:

• Properties
• Property managers
• Enterprise customers
• Destinations
• Countries
• Distribution channels
• Integrations
• AI systems
• Transactions
• Users
• Data

You will work closely with:

• CEO 
• Engineering teams
• Security
• Data
• Product
• Enterprise Sales
• Strategic customers

Your mission:

Create a world-class architecture that makes Domits scalable, reliable, secure, intelligent and extremely difficult to replace.

What You're Going to Do

Technology Architecture Strategy

Define Domits' long-term technology architecture and continuously evolve it as the business grows.

You will establish:

• Architecture principles
• Technology standards
• Reference architectures
• System boundaries
• Service boundaries
• Data ownership
• Integration patterns
• Security principles
• Scalability principles
• Reliability standards

You will ensure that individual engineering decisions contribute to a coherent global architecture.

Architecture Vision

Help define the evolution of Domits:

SaaS Platform → Hospitality Operating System → AI-Native Hospitality Platform → Global Hospitality Infrastructure

You will determine what technical capabilities are required at each stage.

Platform Architecture

Design the architecture connecting:

PMS

→ CRS

→ Channel Manager

→ Direct Booking

→ Revenue Management

→ CRM

→ Unified Inbox

→ Operations

→ Finance

→ Compliance

→ AI

These systems must operate as one coherent platform while remaining scalable and maintainable.

Enterprise Architecture

Ensure Domits can support the most demanding customers in the luxury vacation-rental industry.

Examples include:

• 100+ property managers
• 300+ property portfolios
• 1,000+ property portfolios
• Global hospitality groups
• Multi-brand organizations
• Multi-country operations

You will establish the architecture required to support enterprise customers without creating customer-specific technical chaos.

Enterprise Customer Architecture

Participate in strategic enterprise opportunities where architecture is a key part of the buying decision.

You may work directly with:

• CTOs
• CIOs
• Chief Digital Officers
• Technology Directors
• Enterprise Architects
• Heads of Operations

You will help answer:

Can Domits integrate with our entire technology ecosystem and become mission-critical infrastructure?

You will lead or advise on:

• Technical discovery
• Architecture assessments
• Integration strategy
• Data flows
• Security architecture
• Scalability
• Migration strategy
• Technical due diligence

Global Integration Architecture

Domits will need to integrate with a large ecosystem.

You will define standards for integrations with:

• Airbnb
• Booking platforms
• Vrbo
• Luxury travel networks
• Channel managers
• PMS systems
• CRMs
• Payment providers
• Accounting systems
• Revenue management systems
• Communication providers
• Identity providers
• Enterprise systems

You will establish patterns for:

• REST APIs
• Webhooks
• Events
• Message queues
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Idempotency
• Retries
• Rate limiting
• Versioning
• Monitoring
• Data synchronization

Distribution Architecture

Distribution is one of Domits' core strategic capabilities.

You will help design infrastructure that allows properties to be distributed reliably across multiple channels.

The architecture must support:

One property

→ Multiple channels

→ Multiple calendars

→ Multiple pricing structures

→ Multiple booking sources

→ Real-time synchronization

Without creating:

• Double bookings
• Data inconsistencies
• Lost reservations
• Pricing errors
• Availability conflicts

Multi-Tenant Architecture

Design the foundation for a highly scalable multi-tenant platform.

Tenants may include:

• Individual hosts
• Property managers
• Enterprise operators
• Hospitality groups
• Partners

You will establish strong isolation for:

• Data
• Users
• APIs
• Storage
• Processing
• Permissions
• Infrastructure

Core objective:

Zero cross-tenant incidents.

Cloud Architecture

Lead the strategic evolution of Domits' cloud architecture.

Primary environment:

AWS

Potential technologies include:

• Lambda
• ECS
• EKS
• API Gateway
• S3
• RDS / Aurora
• DynamoDB
• SQS
• SNS
• EventBridge
• CloudFront
• Route 53
• IAM
• VPC
• WAF
• CloudWatch
• Bedrock

You will continuously evaluate:

Build vs Buy

Serverless vs Containers

Monolith vs Services

Synchronous vs Event-Driven

Managed vs Self-Managed

based on business and technical requirements.

Data Architecture

Define the enterprise data architecture of Domits.

You will establish:

• Data ownership
• Canonical data models
• Data contracts
• Data flows
• Event schemas
• Data governance
• Analytics architecture
• BI architecture
• Data warehouse strategy
• AI data architecture

The goal is to make Domits' data:

Reliable → Accessible → Governed → Intelligent

AI Architecture

AI will fundamentally change how Domits operates.

You will work with the AI engineering organization to establish the architecture for:

• LLMs
• AI agents
• RAG
• Vector databases
• AI orchestration
• AI APIs
• AI workflows
• AI decision systems
• AI automation
• AI observability

The long-term vision is an AI workforce for hospitality.

For example:

Guest Agent

Revenue Agent

Sales Agent

Operations Agent

Distribution Agent

Property Manager Agent

Finance Agent

These agents need secure access to the underlying Domits platform.

You will help define that architecture.

Security Architecture

Security is a fundamental architectural responsibility.

You will work with security teams to establish:

• Identity architecture
• Authentication
• Authorization
• RBAC
• Tenant isolation
• Encryption
• Secrets management
• Network security
• API security
• Audit logging
• Data protection
• Compliance architecture

You will ensure security is built into the platform from the beginning.

Reliability Architecture

Domits will eventually become mission-critical infrastructure for customers.

You will establish standards for:

• Availability
• Fault tolerance
• Disaster recovery
• Business continuity
• Data durability
• Graceful degradation
• Failover
• Backup
• Recovery
• Observability

Target architecture should support:

99.9%+ platform availability

and for critical booking infrastructure:

99.99%+ availability and reliability

Architecture Governance

You will establish a lightweight but powerful architecture governance system.

This includes:

• Architecture Decision Records
• Technical standards
• Reference architectures
• Architecture reviews
• Engineering principles
• Design reviews
• Technology evaluation
• Technical risk management

The goal is not bureaucracy.

The goal is:

Architectural consistency without slowing down engineering.

Technical Debt

You will continuously identify and prioritize architectural debt.

You will distinguish between:

Good technical debt

→ intentional trade-off that accelerates learning.

Bad technical debt

→ architecture that prevents scalability, reliability or speed.

You will create clear plans to remove critical architectural risks.

Technology Strategy

You will help leadership answer questions such as:

• What should Domits build?
• What should Domits buy?
• What should become a platform capability?
• Which services should be shared?
• Where should we introduce AI?
• How should we scale internationally?
• How should we support enterprise customers?
• How do we prevent architectural fragmentation?
• How do we maintain development velocity while increasing reliability?

What We Ask

Core Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture
• Extensive experience designing large-scale systems
• Strong distributed-systems knowledge
• Strong cloud architecture experience
• Extensive AWS experience
• Strong API and integration architecture knowledge
• Strong database architecture knowledge
• Experience with enterprise SaaS
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms
• Strong security architecture understanding
• Strong data architecture understanding
• Excellent technical communication
• Experience influencing senior engineering teams
• Experience working with executive stakeholders

Strong Advantage

Experience with:

• Hospitality technology
• PropTech
• Travel technology
• Marketplaces
• PMS
• Channel managers
• Booking platforms
• Payments
• Revenue management
• AI platforms
• Enterprise integrations
• Global SaaS
• High-volume transaction systems

Technical Skills

Strong understanding of:

• Distributed systems
• Cloud architecture
• AWS
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Node.js
• Python
• REST
• GraphQL
• Event-driven architecture
• Microservices
• Serverless
• PostgreSQL
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Messaging systems
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability
• Security
• AI / LLM architecture

You don't need to personally write every line of code.

You need to understand how the entire technology ecosystem works together.

What We Care About Most

We care about architectural judgment, technical depth and business impact.

We want someone who:

• Thinks in systems
• Thinks decades ahead but ships today
• Simplifies complexity
• Makes pragmatic decisions
• Understands trade-offs
• Challenges weak architectural decisions
• Can defend strong architectural decisions
• Communicates clearly
• Builds consensus
• Takes ownership
• Understands business
• Mentors technical leaders

Your Personality

Visionary

You can see where technology is going.

Pragmatic

You know when the perfect architecture isn't necessary.

Decisive

You can make difficult architectural decisions.

Curious

You continuously learn.

Analytical

You understand technical trade-offs deeply.

Commercial

You understand that architecture exists to create business value.

Leader

You influence people through expertise, clarity and trust.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 Days

You will:

• Understand the Domits business
• Understand the current architecture
• Map the major systems
• Identify critical architectural risks
• Understand technical debt
• Review cloud infrastructure
• Review enterprise requirements
• Establish architectural priorities

First 90 Days

You will:

• Define the target architecture
• Establish architectural principles
• Establish architecture governance
• Identify critical scalability improvements
• Improve integration architecture
• Improve enterprise readiness
• Establish the long-term technology roadmap

6–12 Months

You will help transform Domits into a:

Secure

Scalable

Observable

Highly available

AI-native

Enterprise-ready

technology platform.

KPIs

Your impact will be measured through:

• Platform availability
• Critical booking reliability
• Scalability
• API reliability
• Integration reliability
• Security incidents
• Cross-tenant incidents
• Technical debt reduction
• Deployment reliability
• Infrastructure efficiency
• Enterprise implementation success
• Architecture adoption
• Engineering velocity

Key objectives:

99.9%+ platform availability

99.99%+ critical booking reliability

Zero cross-tenant incidents

Zero Domits-caused double bookings

Zero critical security vulnerabilities

Why Join Domits?

Design a Global Platform

You won't be maintaining an internal enterprise architecture.

You'll be designing the infrastructure of a company attempting to become a global category leader.

Massive Technical Surface Area

You will work across:

Cloud → APIs → Data → AI → Payments → Distribution → SaaS → Security → Enterprise

High Ownership

You will have influence over the fundamental technical decisions that determine Domits' future.

Direct Executive Influence

You will work directly with company leadership and senior technical leaders.

Your architectural decisions will directly influence:

• Product
• Engineering
• Enterprise sales
• Customer implementations
• AI strategy
• International expansion

The Mission

Domits wants to become:

The #1 digital infrastructure for luxury vacation rental managers.

The platform should allow operators to:

Manage → Distribute → Sell → Price → Communicate → Operate → Finance → Grow

Your responsibility is to ensure that the technology underneath this ecosystem can scale with that ambition.

Career Path

Principal Engineer → Enterprise Architect → Chief Architect → CTO → Technology Leader

The Ideal Candidate

You're not interested in architecture for architecture's sake.

You want to build something that matters.

You can discuss distributed systems with principal engineers.

You can discuss enterprise architecture with CTOs.

You can discuss ROI with CEOs.

You can challenge a technical decision when necessary.

You can simplify a complex system when everyone else is making it more complicated.

And you understand the most important principle:

The best architecture is not the most sophisticated architecture. It is the architecture that enables the business to win.

If that sounds like you:

Welcome to Domits.

Domits — Luxury vacation rentals, intelligently delivered.