Senior Director Software Engineering -M&A

at Marriott in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Number 24075756

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:

Provides application development leadership for the implementation of key technology initiatives that drive Marriott International’s M&A strategy in a fast-paced, mission critical environment.

Fosters innovation and manages the application development team with a focus on promoting client satisfaction. Collaborates with other technology leaders, business partners and promotes agile application development practices and processes across the enterprise. Establishes and manages continuous improvement efforts in technical project management, software engineering & testing automation to improve quality, scalability, and adoption of Marriott’s API platform.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

- 10+ years of application development leadership experience

- 5+ years of experience with distributed architectural frameworks and the various approaches to the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like agile development methodologies.

- Experience with technologies – Java, NoSQL, Spring boot, Kafka, Docker, K8s, Cloud

- Experience & in-depth working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, service mesh, LTM, GTM, etc.

- Deep understanding of the pros and cons with cloud-native solution, microservices-architecture and API orchestration architecture

- 5+ years leading innovative, technically complex solutions for business and consumer-facing audiences

- 5+ years delivering enterprise level technology solutions that scale for a global audience

- Experience with Automation testing, Performance Engineering, Release Management processes and Application Deployments.

- Experience with multiple public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure

- Experience with designing & implementing cloud native solutions

- Strong understanding of API platforms, back-end services, database and networking components of full stack infrastructure

- Working in a Product-based model and building strong partnerships with Product owners by providing innovative technology solutions to complex business problems

- Direct management of complex budgets in excess of $5M annual direct and indirect costs

- Direct management of cross functional, sourced, or matrixed teams

- Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Preferred :

- Experience developing Enterprise APIs and working with API management platforms like Akana

- Experience leveraging micro-services development patterns and principles

- Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations

- Active contributions to OSS projects

- Relevant technology certifications

- Proven management experience in strategic planning and budgeting within one or more business groups

- Experience with and knowledge of global IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment

- Proven management experience in application development across waterfall and agile environments.

- Experience transforming mainframe-based applications into modern open system technologies

- Proven success in driving DevOps best practices and capabilities into development teams

- Graduate degree in computer science or related technical field

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Managing Application Development Standards, Processes, and Tools

- Works with direct reports to facilitate consistency of service delivery across client groups

- Facilitates compliance with the standard set of application development tools and processes that will drive consistency and predictability throughout the SDLC for all client groups including:

- SDLC standard tools and processes for both waterfall and agile development

- Estimating standard tools and processes, incorporating flexibility for small and large projects

- Deployment standard tools and processes

- Monitors projects for adherence to defined application development processes

- Communicates to Application Development leaders opportunities to create broader IT related and corporate standards and policies where necessary

- Communicates important application development policy changes that affect service provider and/or Marriott operations

Managing Day-To-Day Relationships with Teams

- Manages application development projects in partnership with IT teams, business partners and providers

- Provides project management of business projects

- Oversees effective reporting within application development team

- Leads project reviews with team on application development projects

- Manages day-to day relationships with all IT teams to promote the delivery of services that meet or exceed the client expectations

- Monitors projects for alignment with defined business case process

- Drives timely resolution of escalated service delivery problems and minimizes the impact of any client service delivery issues

- Manages, and improves service level reporting for application development

- Provides early warning to the appropriate Business Partnership & Planning leaders and team regarding degraded or missed service levels

- Assists with application, development and maintenance of service provider project management standards and tools

- Participates in client portfolio and demand management processes, and engages service providers to ensure client satisfaction

- Works with application development service providers

- Validates the service provider(s) performs the services agreed to by the master services agreement in a manner that is consistent with both the spirit and the letter of the agreement

- Works with team to progress the service providers services to match client needs

- Facilitates team and service provider compliance with the agreement

- Validates service levels meet business needs

- Facilitates the definition and enforcement of good service provider contracts

- Supports the IT organization

- Provides input to IT’s business strategy and planning as needed

- Supports and follows defined IT Governance decision rights, standards and practices

- Emphasizes accuracy and effectiveness of estimating and planning management with team

- Provides input to business/discipline and continent IT budgets

Implementing and Managing Continuous Improvement Program

- Drives adoption of CMMi or similar metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement and alignment with the industry

- Demonstrates continuous improvement through metrics of quality consistency and client satisfaction

- Works with application development service providers, IT teams, and business partners to implement continuous improvement activities

- Responds to issues identified in project surveys or other feedback processes, to continually improve client satisfaction

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 informat