Senior Software Engineer

JOB SUMMARY  

If you’re looking to build leading technology that enables the future of global travel while transforming your career – step out of the status quo and join Global Technology at Marriott International.  

Marriott has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Engineering – Data Platforms team.  This role is part of the team focused on building out our next generation cloud-based data, analytics and enterprise event bus platform.  Appropriate candidates have a passion for data and emerging technologies with a vision for building next generation capabilities and a strong drive for success.  

In this role you will function as a technical expert and lead engineer for the Data Platform team.  You will perform research, analysis, design and development on a wide range of next generation api capabilities and products.  You will set technical standards and develop reusable frameworks to ensure consistent and efficient creation of data capabilities and products.  

You will assume technical ownership of Service Provider deliverables and lead their technical resources to ensure deliverables are of high quality, follow our technical standards & best practices and perform at scale.  

In addition, you will research emerging technologies that will provide future capabilities as well as seek solutions for complex technical issues.  You will make decisions on complex, non-routine requests to support analytics based decisioning by Marriott business teams.  

If you feel you are up for the challenge, then please see further details below…

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE

 

Education and Experience

 

Required:

• 7+ years’ hands on experience developing software with expert-level expertise in multiple programming languages and methodologies
• 4+ years’ Technical delivery ownership of large scale data pipelines and applications
• 3+ years’ experience developing data applications and applications on AWS
• 3+ years’ hands on experience with Kafka & Streaming platform
• 2+ years’ hands on experience with Snowflake
• 2+ years’ experience with AWS S3 and Lambda
• 2+ years’ experience in migrating data platforms/applications to AWS
• Strong technical leader with proven ability to lead Service Provider technical resources
• Strong communication skills
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification

Preferred:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Technology certifications in Confluent Kafka
• Confluent Kafka Administration 
• Experience with Terraform, Harness
• Experience with Confluent Stream Governance
• Experience with Confluent CSFLE, Flink
• Experience with NoSQL databases, preferable Cassandra 
• Experience in agile software methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate future data platform opportunities
• Technology leadership experience in a sourced environment

 

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

 

Technical Leadership

• Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate 
• Ability to work liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery 
• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

 

Delivering Technology 

• Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
• Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning
• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes
• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams
• Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development
• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels
• Coordinates with Application Delivery and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities

 

IT Governance

• Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk 
• Ability to assess when risks