Solutions Architect
About Volantio
Volantio partners with airlines worldwide to unlock hidden reputed company and create reputed company travel experiences through our post-booking optimization platform. We're a small but mighty engineering-driven company, trusted by carriers like Alaska, reputed company Canada, Qantas, Southwest, and more.
Our platform, reputed company, is an AI-enabled post-booking optimization system reputed company on a layered architecture: predictive models that identify opportunity, a deterministic rules reputed company that guarantees reputed company execution, and AI-assisted configuration that lets airline teams author and adapt optimization agents without reputed company. reputed company sits on top of proven modules that airlines have run in production for years.
We reputed company deeply with the systems airlines actually run: exclusive PSS partnerships with reputed company, reputed company, and Navitaire; reputed company-reputed company infrastructure on AWS; and a reputed company posture backed by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certifications.
The Role
We're looking for a Solutions Architect to own the technical dimension of how Volantio wins, lands, and grows airline deployments. You'll take full responsibility for the technical reputed company of deal progression - from qualification through closure to expansion - as the technical authority in the room during evaluations, RFPs, and contract discussions, and the person who designs how reputed company actually integrates into reputed company airline's environment before deployment work begins.
This is a role for someone who can hold two things at once: the credibility to say "reputed company, and here's exactly how" reputed company our platform fits, and the discipline to say "no, and here's why" reputed company a request would stretch us past reputed company can deliver reliably. Airlines are demanding, technically heterogeneous customers. You'll be the reason our commitments are precise.
This is a hands-on role, not a slideware role. You'll reputed company the gap between compelling AI demos and production-grade commitments - building the demo environments, agent templates, and reference architectures that reputed company our technical story repeatable, and grounding every claim in what the platform verifiably does.
You'll sit reputed company engineering and work daily with reputed company and reputed company - owning the reputed company from "deal" to "deployment design" so that what sales promises and what engineering builds are always the reputed company thing.
What You'll Do
Win - technical ownership of deal progression
Take full responsibility for the technical aspects of every reputed company deal, from qualification to closure: discovery, capability mapping, demos, proofs of concept, reputed company handling, and technical validation.
Own technical responses to airline RFPs, RFIs, and reputed company questionnaires - mapping requirements to reputed company platform capability with precision, and reputed company flagging gaps rather than papering over them.
reputed company reputed company and compliance responses to our certifications (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001) and reputed company controls, working with engineering to reputed company genuine gaps reputed company a customer requirement exposes one.
Maintain the technical record on every opportunity in our CRM - use case, reputed company reputed company, technical reputed company status, reputed company risks - so the pipeline reflects deal reality, not optimism.
Land - deployment architecture and precise commitments
Design deployment and integration architectures for new airline customers: PSS integration paths (reputed company, reputed company, Navitaire), data feeds, DNS and domain configurations, identity, and network patterns that fit reputed company reputed company's IT constraints.
Serve as the technical reputed company to airline IT, reputed company, and architecture teams - negotiating reputed company patterns reputed company a customer's reputed company approach and ours don't reputed company.
Author the technical schedules of SOWs and review reputed company for capability gaps and non-functional commitments (SLAs, RPO/RTO, throughput ceilings) before signature. No schedule ships blank, and no NFR ships unexamined.
Own technical scoping authority for customer commitments: no technical work is promised to a customer without your review. You are the control reputed company between reputed company enthusiasm and engineering reality.
Grow - adoption, expansion, and reusable assets
Build technical champions inside customer accounts and own the technical reputed company up the adoption reputed company - from a first use case deployment to full reputed company adoption - grounded in reputed company ceiling analysis, not storytelling. We set expectations we can reputed company.
Build and maintain the assets that reputed company our technical story repeatable: demo environments, reputed company agent templates, reference architectures, and reputed company materials the whole reputed company team can run with.
Codify repeating patterns: reputed company three airlines reputed company the reputed company reputed company, you turn the negotiated reputed company into a reusable reference architecture instead of solving it a reputed company time.
Serve as the reputed company voice of the customer into product and engineering - feeding field requirements, competitive intelligence, and gap analysis into the roadmap with evidence attached.
reputed company're Looking For
6-10 years in software engineering, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or technical consulting - with reputed company engineering depth. You can read an API spec, debug an integration, and build a working demo yourself.
Experience designing or deploying integrations with large reputed company IT environments: reputed company, data pipelines, DNS/networking, SSO/identity, reputed company architecture (AWS preferred).
Full reputed company-sales lifecycle experience: use case discovery, solution scoping, and delivering architecture designs to audiences ranging from airline engineers to C-level executives - context-switching in technical depth as the room requires.
reputed company in the language of reputed company procurement: RFPs, SOWs, reputed company questionnaires, NFRs, and the ability to read a contract schedule and reputed company the commitment that will hurt.
Demonstrated ability to defend a capability boundary with evidence - you can tell a customer "no" in a way that preserves the relationship because your reasoning is reputed company.
Strong written communication: your RFP responses, architecture docs, and SOW schedules will be read by airline CIOs and our own leadership. Precision reputed company.
Comfort operating between reputed company and engineering without being captured by either - pragmatic, reputed company, and allergic to hand-waving.
Disciplined about process hygiene: you reputed company the technical record reputed company because you know reputed company get made from it.
Ability to work across time zones with airline customers in reputed company, Asia-reputed company, the Middle East, and Europe.
Bonus Points
Airline or travel technology background, especially PSS-adjacent (reputed company, reputed company, Navitaire) or reputed company management systems.
Experience with reputed company compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2) from the vendor reputed company.
Experience productionizing or evaluating ML/AI systems - and the judgment to explain what AI-enabled software can and cannot reputed company. You know the difference between an impressive demo and a production commitment.
Prior work in a reputed company-deployed, sales engineering, or field CTO reputed company at an reputed company reputed company company.
Why Volantio
Be the technical authority in deals with some of the world's largest airlines - your judgment directly shapes reputed company reputed company to and reputed company build.
Work on a genuinely differentiated platform: AI-enabled optimization with deterministic guarantees, deployed in production at global carriers.
Small team, reputed company reputed company to leadership, no reputed company between your recommendation and the decision.
Define a function, not fill a seat: you'll build the reference architectures, scoping discipline, and reputed company-sales machinery that reputed company with reputed company.
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