FLEX Data Engineer, Infrastructure & Delivery Shared Services

This is a temporary position. 

The Data Engineer, Infrastructure & Delivery Shared Services, is part of the Technology Experience Center chartered with supporting our organizational mission to create exceptional experiences. At Marriott we are transforming the way we manage technology; this position will support the IT Operations team with analytics supplying the team with data and insights to drive the transformation forward. You will design, construct, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses in partnership and in support of our Data Analysts, ITSM Practice Owners, Service Desk Leaders, SRE Leaders, and various other departments and product owners across the organization. 

 

As a contributing member of the ITSM Service Delivery Data and Analytics team, the Data Engineer will partner with ETL and Platform teams to ensure that data within the Enterprise ITSM reporting platform is accurate, up-to-date, and governed. You will be accountable to ensure data meets the requirements and availability standards defined by the team and documenting the available data and ITSM Metric calculations used to ensure consistency across the ITSM organization. This is a technical engineer role that requires collaboration with multiple Global Technology and Platform teams.

Candidate Profile

Education and Experience

Required:

 

 

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certifications
• 7+ years of experience in Information Technology (IT) and/or analytics roles, including:

 

• 5+ years of experience in report creation, validation, data audit, and data documentation
• 2+ years of experience in Service Now or related ITSM technology

 

Preferred Skills and Expertise

Technical:

 

• Advanced understanding of ETL pipelines and dataflows
• Experience building and optimizing data sets, data pipelines and architectures
• Experience building processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
• Experience building, tuning, and optimizing data models in both PowerBI & Microsoft Fabric
• Advanced experience with Microsoft SQL Server and writing T-SQL
• Experience with Python, PySpark, or R
• Experience leading complex data initiatives with multiple stakeholders and end users including both technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience writing technical documentation
• Experience defining and implementing ITSM Metric governance
• Proficiency in data audit and enforcing data standards
• Experience defining and implementing data governance process
• Experience implementing and managing data sharing model for a data platform.
• Experience with Service Now reporting platform
• Strong understanding of relational data models

 

General:

 

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to interact at all levels
• Ability to independently manage technical or process issues, providing executive reporting on issue status
• Experience interfacing with and influencing business partners
• Experience communicating technical material to non-technical business partners to help them interpret data and uncover actionable information
• Ability to think creatively, systemically, holistically, and practically to support team members and practice managers

 

 

Core Work Activities:

 

• Work with data platform team and source data owners to mitigate and resolve gaps and inconsistencies
• Identify gaps and inconsistencies within the data platform across multiple core data sources
• Support Business Application and IT Support Desk activities through data platform regulation and availability
• Work with peers and leadership to propose new opportunities for data strategy and insight
• Work cross-departmentally to align on data platform needs
• Work in partnership with other team members on development of data strategy for service groups
• Explore new tools and methods to continuously improve the data platform and reporting capabilities of the team
• Complete special projects and activities, as assigned
• Function as a strategic data expert within the department
• Provide direction, influence, and assistance to other teams and individuals as needed
• Generate and provide accurate and timely results in the form of program reports, executive presentations, etc.
• Plan, develop,