Driven to be the Best
People. Performance. Purpose.
At Avis Budget Group, we’re driven to be the best vehicle rental company in the world, together. Our 25,000 employees raise the bar every day, bringing different perspectives, taking ownership, and leading with integrity. We’re defining the future of mobility with safe, sustainable solutions that move people, businesses, and communities forward.
Avis Budget Group is seeking a highly experienced Engineering Manager/Lead Architect to provide technical leadership for the architecture, engineering, modernization, and operation of large-scale enterprise applications and API platforms.
This role is ideal for a technology leader with 15–17+ years of experience architecting and managing complex, highly distributed enterprise systems, with deep expertise in API-centric architectures, microservices, cloud platforms, GDS (Global Distribution Systems), and legacy modernization.
The successful candidate will lead the evolution of Avis Budget Group's technology ecosystem toward a modern, API-first, cloud-native architecture, while ensuring seamless integration with existing mainframe, GDS, reservation, fleet, rental, and enterprise systems.
You will operate at the intersection of enterprise architecture, engineering leadership, product delivery, and technology strategy, influencing architectural decisions across multiple engineering organizations and leading teams responsible for business-critical platforms operating at significant scale.
What You'll Do:
Enterprise Architecture & Technical Leadership
Provide senior technical leadership for the architecture and engineering of large-scale, mission-critical enterprise applications and platforms
Define enterprise application architecture strategies aligned with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and long-term modernization goals
Architect highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and critical customer journeys
Establish architectural standards and reference architectures for microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration
Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams and technology domains
Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical architectures and actionable engineering roadmaps
Identify architectural risks, technical debt, scalability constraints, and modernization opportunities
Drive technology decisions across build-vs-buy, platform capabilities, integration patterns, and modernization approaches
API-First & API Platform Strategy
Own and evolve the enterprise API strategy, establishing APIs as the primary integration mechanism between customer-facing applications, GDS platforms, internal systems, partners, and third-party ecosystems
Architect and govern enterprise-scale API platforms using technologies such as Apigee, 3scale, and RedSwift
Establish standards for API design, governance, versioning, lifecycle management, security, discoverability, throttling, monetization, and observability
Design API products that enable rapid integration across digital channels, mobile applications, GDS platforms, partners, and internal enterprise systems
Define API gateway and management strategies across hybrid cloud, on-premises, and legacy environments
Architect secure API ecosystems using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, API policies, and enterprise identity platforms
Establish API resiliency patterns including throttling, circuit breakers, retries, caching, traffic management, and graceful degradation
Drive API reuse and standardization across engineering organizations to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery
Establish API SLAs, SLOs, performance standards, and operational governance
GDS Architecture & Integration
Provide architectural leadership for Global Distribution System (GDS) capabilities and their integration with modern digital platforms
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