Senior Director, Software Engineering

JOB SUMMARY:   

 

Provides application development leadership for the implementation of key technology initiatives that drive Marriott International's GraphQL Platform strategy in a fast-paced, mission critical environment. This role will be responsible for building and advancing Marriott’s platform in alignment with our core business objectives and enterprise architecture principles. 

 

Fosters innovation and manages the application development team with a focus on promoting customer 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 – GraphQL, Node.js, Typescript, Java, NoSQL, Spring boot, Kafka, Docker, K8s, Cloud  

• Experience with defining and executing the enterprise GraphQL platform strategy and roadmap 

• Experience with leading the design, build, and operation of the GraphQL runtime and federation layer, including Apollo (or similar product) Router/Gateway, traffic management, environment strategy, and platform resiliency to support missioncritical workloads at scale 

• Experience with owning the enterprise GraphQL Platform vision and execution, defining the longterm roadmap, operating model, and technical strategy for Apollo GraphQL (federation, routing, governance) to enable scalable, domaindriven API delivery across the enterprise 

• Experience embedding security, compliance, and cost controls into the platform by design, including authorization patterns, query complexity management, rate limiting, data access policies, and secure defaults aligned with enterprise risk standards 

• Prior experience driving reliability, performance, observability, and real time analytics as firstclass platform capabilities, defining SLIs/SLOs, enabling deep telemetry, and leading incident management, capacity planning, and continuous performance optimization. 

• Experience or 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 

• 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 

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent 

 

Preferred: 

• Experience developing GraphQL APIs using Apollo and REST based APIs 

• Experience leveraging micro-services development patterns and principles  

• Experience and deep understanding of capabilities (such as orchestration, filtering, sorting etc) that GraphQL vs REST based microservices should be leveraged for. 

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

• Strong experience in platform based approach and building platform for the enterprise to be used across all domains. 

• Active contributions