at Marriott in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Number 24069878
Job Category Information Technology
Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? Y
Relocation? N
Position Type Management
JOB SUMMARY
Marriott has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Engineering – Data Services team. This role is part of the team focused on building out our next generation tokenization platform, analytics, and machine learning platform. Appropriate candidates have a passion for data, privacy, and security merging technologies, a vision for building next-generation capabilities, and a strong drive for success.
In this role, you will be a technical expert and lead engineer for the Data Services team. You will perform research, analysis, design and development on a wide range of next generation data protection capabilities and products. You will set technical standards and develop reusable frameworks to ensure consistent and efficient creation of data capabilities and products.
You will assume technical ownership of Service Provider deliverables and lead their technical resources to ensure deliverables are of high quality, follow our technical standards & best practices and perform at scale.
In addition, you will research emerging technologies that will provide future capabilities as well as seek solutions for complex technical issues. You will make decisions on complex, non-routine requests to Marriott business teams.
If you feel you are up for the challenge, then please see further details below…
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
- 5+ years’ hands-on experience developing large-scale Java applications at enterprise scale.
- 4+ years’ technical delivery ownership of large-scale and high-performing enterprise applications.
- 3+ years’ hands-on experience with Java, Scala &/or Spark.
- 2+ years’ hands-on experience with CI/CD and AWS deployment.
- 2+ years’ experience with developing Microservices.
- Strong technical leader with proven ability to lead Service Provider technical resources.
- Experience in agile software methodologies.
- Strong communication skills.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Preferred:
- Graduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Technology certifications in Java.
- AWS Developer or architect certification.
- Hashicorp Tokenization Products.
- Experience with Relational like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with developing and supporting ETL applications and Data Pipelines using Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow etc.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate future data protection opportunities.
- Technology leadership experience in a sourced environment.
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Technical Leadership
- Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
- Ability to work liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery.
- Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested.
- Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.
Delivering Technology
- Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
- Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers.
- Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning.
- Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes.
- Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams.
- Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
- Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels.
- Coordinates with Application Delivery and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities.
IT Governance
- Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed.
- Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
- Ability to assess when risks need to be escalated to right channels.
- Follows the defined project management standards and processes.
Service Provider Management
- Validates that Service Providers develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
- Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources.
- Monitors Service Provider outcomes.
- Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers for accuracy.
- Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients.
MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES
Leadership
- Communication – Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
- Leading Through Vision and Values – Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of employee decision making and action.
- Managing Change – Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making – Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
- Professional Demeanor – Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values.
- Strategy Development – Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
Managing Execution
- Building a Successful Team – Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization.
- Strategy Execution – Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
- Driving for Results – Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively acts and goes beyond what is required.
Building Relationships
- Customer Relationships – Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company’s service standards.
- Global Mindset – Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential.
- Strategic Partnerships – Develops collaborative relationships with fellow employees and business partners by making them feel valued, appreciated, and included; explo
