Director, Platform Engineering (Multiple...

• Oversee day to day application development projects and engineering while leading continuous improvement on process definition and compliance.

• Directly manage software engineers and project managers.

• Deliver on commitments to discipline partners and collaborates with architects on major organizational initiatives across multiple channels & platform.

• Function as the technical decision-maker and problem solver to deliver projects on time and on budget.

• Promote project quality and manages the application development team to promote satisfaction with all technology teams and business partners by following standard application development tools and processes.

• Manage continuous improvement program to improve quality, consistency, and client satisfaction.

• Define API gateway roadmap with automated API provisioning.

• Understand IT financial structures and manage corporate financial processes and standards - including drivers of process costs.

• Influence technology strategy by providing strategic advice, be a trusted advisor to discipline partners for

leveraging/customizing software to meet their digital marketing requirements.

• Work with direct reports to facilitate consistency of service delivery across client groups.

• Facilitate 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 tool and processes for both waterfall and agile development; Estimating standard tools and processes, incorporating flexibility for small and large projects; and deployment standard tools and processes.

• Monitor projects for adherence to defined application development processes.

• Communicate to Application Development leaders opportunities to create broader IT related and corporate standards and policies where necessary.

• Communicate important application development policy changes that affect service provider and/or Marriott operations.

• Manage application development projects in partnership with IT teams, business partners and providers.

• Work with application development service providers and validate 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.

• Provide input to IT's business strategy and planning as needed.

• Support and follow defined IT Governance decision rights, standards and practices.

• Drive adoption of CMMi or similar metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement and alignment with the industry.

• Demonstrate continuous improvement through metrics of quality consistency and client satisfaction.

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

• Respond to issues identified in project surveys or other feedback processes, to continually improve client satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, IT or related technical field followed by 10 years of progressively responsible professional application development leadership experience. Experience must include:

• 7 years of technical experience within architecture development, including integration of backend systems and development

• 5 years of experience designing, managing and maintaining API gateway (Akana or other industry leading API Gateway) and developer portal in Production environment.

• 5 years of experience with integration approaches and architectures

• 5 years of experience with cloud-native solution, microservices-architecture and API orchestration architecture

• 4 years of experience with each of the following technologies - Java, NoSQL, Spring boot, Kafka, Docker, K8s, Cloud

• 3 years of experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, service mesh, LTM, GTM, and SEO

• 5 years of experience with API platforms, back-end services, database and networking components of full stack infrastructure

• 5 years of experience in building observability platforms using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and/or Graphite

• 5 years of experience with Akamai GTM, Akamai Bot Manager, Akamai Kona Site Defender, and/or Akamai Devops

• 4 years of experience with edge and application caching strategies using Akamai, Redis, Varnish, and/or Hazlecast,

• 5 years of experience with performance monitoring, debugging, optimization techniques and core web vitals

• 3 years of experience with frontend technology stacks NodeJS, ReactJS, VueJS, webpack and develop proof of concepts

• 5 years of experience with direct management of cross functional, sourced, or matrixed teams

Telework: 100%; Position may be performed from anywhere within the US

Travel: Travel to Marriott HQ in Bethesda MD at least one per quarter

SALARY: $168,150-$197,600 per year

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