Senior Director, Software Engineering

JOB SUMMARY:

Provides application development leadership for the implementation of key technology initiatives that drive Marriott International's Graph

QL 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 - Graph

QL, Node.js, Typescript, Java, No

SQL, Spring boot, Kafka, Docker, K8s, Cloud

* Experience with defining and executing the enterprise Graph

QL platform strategy and roadmap

* Experience with leading the design, build, and operation of the Graph

QL runtime and federation layer, including Apollo (or similar product) Router/Gateway, traffic management, environment strategy, and platform resiliency to support mission critical workloads at scale

* Experience with owning the enterprise Graph

QL Platform vision and execution, defining the longterm roadmap, operating model, and technical strategy for Apollo Graph

QL (federation, routing, governance) to enable scalable, domain driven 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 first class 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 Dev Ops, 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 Graph

QL 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 Graph

QL 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 to OSS projects

* Relevant technology certifications

* Proven management experience in strategic planning and budgeting within one or more business groups

* Experience with and knowledge of global IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment

* Proven management experience in application development across waterfall and agile environments.

* Experience transforming mainframe-based applications into modern open system technologies

* Proven success in driving Dev Ops best practices and capabilities into development teams

* Experience with Automation…