Director Platform Engineering

JOB SUMMARY: 

 

Oversees day to day application development projects and engineering while leading continuous improvement on process definition and compliance. Directly manages software engineers and project managers. Delivers on commitments to domain partners and collaborates with architects on major organizational initiatives across multiple channels & platform. Functions as the technical decision-maker and problem solver to deliver projects on time and on budget. Promotes 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.  Manages continuous improvement program to improve quality, consistency, and client satisfaction.

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE 

Education and Experience 

Required:

• 10+ years of application development leadership experience that includes:
• 3+ years of technical experience in architecture development, integration of backend systems, and development
• In-depth knowledge of Integration patterns and architectures
• Deep understanding of Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Cloud-Native Design Patterns, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Reactive Systems, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Actors, Concurrency, Multi-Threading, Virtual Threads, Service Orchestration and Choreography, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI
• Experience with technologies such as – Java 21, NoSQL, Spring Boot, WebFlux, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Serverless, FaaS, PaaS
• Experience & understanding of DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Design Patterns, and Istio Service Mesh 
• Strong understanding of API platforms, back-end services, database, and networking components of full-stack infrastructure
• Direct management of cross-functional, sourced, or matrixed teams
• Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education + experience
   

 Preferred:

• Experience with AWS Solutions Architecture
• Experience with Application Platform Architecture
• Experience designing Loosely Coupled Systems
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Experience architecting Highly Concurrent Distributed Systems
• Experience with Concurrency using Actors/Threads/Virtual Threads
• Experience architecting Asychronous Event-Driven and Reactive Systems
• Experience with building systems using WebAssembly(WASM)
• Proven knowledge of Agile methodology; preferably SAFe 
• Experience with GraphQL
• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations

 

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 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 le