FLEX Senior Software Engineer

This is a temporary position.

JOB SUMMARY

 

Marriott has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Engineering and Platforms team.  This role is part of the team focused on building out our next generation cloud-based application and federation services.  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 data capabilities and products.  You will set technical standards and develop reusable frameworks to ensure consistent and efficient creation of microservice 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 large scale backend applications at enterprise scale
• 5+ years’ technical delivery ownership of large-scale applications with Java/J2EE technology stack
• 4+ years’ experience with one or more of the following: Developing microservices on Play, Spring Boot, ForgeRock, and Cassandra
• 2+ years’ experience in managing microservice applications built on AWS
• Strong technical leader with proven ability to lead Service Provider technical resources
• Strong communication skills
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Preferred:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Technology certifications in Java, J2EE
• Experience with ForgeRock, or other IAM products
• Experience with NoSQL databases, preferable Cassandra
• Experience with Data monitoring Tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk
• 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 need to be escalated to right channels.
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes

 

Service Provider Management

 

• Validates that Service Providers develop