FLEX Director, Solution Architect

Marriott is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect with proven expertise in designing and implementing modern, scalable digital platforms. This is a senior individual contributor role. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in complex Content Management workflows, advanced Marketing and targeting capabilities, and strong technical proficiency in offer management, user accounts, search, and commerce solutions. This role requires a blend of architectural vision and hands-on development skills, with the ability to actively contribute to coding and programming tasks daily. Candidates should demonstrate a strong track record of building robust, enterprise-grade solutions that deliver exceptional performance and user experience. The individual will be tasked with creating solutions and their supporting documentation including technical requirements, definition of done, diagrams and test plans.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, enterprise-grade web architectures that support complex commerce and offer workflows and integrated marketing capabilities.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical strategies, system integrations, and platform enhancements.

• Lead solution design for various platform initiatives.

• Create and maintain supporting technical documentation including Technical Requirements, diagrams and test plans.

• Provide hands-on development support, writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code as part of day-to-day responsibilities.

• Drive architectural reviews, technical documentation, and best practices for development teams.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend solutions that align with business objectives.

• Coordinate with development teams to implement best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture with a focus on web and mobile platform technologies.
• Hands-on full stack development experience in 1 or more modern web or mobile stacks.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable web solutions with CMS and marketing requirements.
• Enterprise Architecture experience as a Solution or Software Architect.
• Deep understanding of content management systems, marketing automation, and personalization workflows.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred:

• Experience in the hospitality industry or with global consumer brands.
• Familiarity with hotel systems (PMS, CRS, loyalty platforms) and guest-facing technologies.
• Adobe marketing tech stack, specifically Adobe Experience Manager, Target and Adobe Client Data Layer
• Cloud-native architecture experience (especially AWS).

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to influence technical and business teams in a global enterprise.

Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, and paid parental leave.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.

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