Lead Platform Engineer

Job Identification: 220678

Job Category: Technology

Job Schedule: Full time

Equal Opportunity Employer EOE, including disability/vets

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Dallas, TX;
McLean, VA; or Memphis, TN

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Platform Engineer, Property Technology, you will bring your blend of technical skills and product passion to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Software Engineering Property Platform team, reporting to the Director Software Engineering, you will lead the delivery of enterprise programs and platform enhancements for Prodigy, a cohesive in-house commercial services web application.

Prodigy supports both above-property corporate teams and on-property hotel team members.

What you'll do during a typical day:

• Create technical requirements to deliver new features and capabilities that support enterprise capabilities and platform enhancements

• Break-down complex workflows into unified application experiences

• Transform solution and network diagrams, swagger definitions, and REST API integrations into clear requirements and business process flows that bring capabilities to life

• Collaborate daily with Business Product Owners, UI Engineers, and Designers in an agile environment to challenge current processes and deliver features and requirements

• Lead other Business Analysts by encouraging a culture of ideation, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centric decision-making

• Manage the refinement backlog through weekly refinement and sprint planning, ensuring the platform team advances 40–50% of sprint velocity, approximately 70–80 tickets or 180 story points, into refinement each week

How you'll collaborate with others:

• Connect Hilton's business, technology, and core architecture teams to understand and detail the technology needs and transform requirements into deliverable solutions

• Partner with business product owners, UI/UX designers, development, and testing teams to deliver new functionality and enterprise capabilities

• Navigate a fast-paced agile environment by clarifying ambiguity, developing solutions, and removing roadblocks to keep work moving forward

Deliverables you'll take ownership of:

• Monitor progress against weekly/monthly roadmap and identify potential risks and blockers for scheduled programs

• Prioritize requirements in refinement backlog

• Deliver monthly artifacts such as release notes and product reviews to business and technical teams

What It Takes to Make the Stay

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology and Product, or related field

• Three (3) years of experience working in product space delivering detailed requirements to UX designers and front-end UI engineers

• Proficiency with Jira in managing user stories and detailed technical UI requirements

• Understanding of existing software delivery life cycle and how to use AI tooling to modernize the cycle

• Experience working with rest APIs integrations and proficiency understanding swagger file definitions (YAML/JSON)

• This is a hybrid in-office role and requires new team members to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)

• Travel up to 10%

It would be useful if you have:

• Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus 6+ years of Technology/Product related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology/Product related experience

• Seven (7) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field

• Five (5) years of experience working in product space delivering detailed requirements to UX designers and front-end UI engineers

• Two (2) years of work experience managing team members

• Two (2) years of experience with Figma and other design systems

How We'll Help You Thrive

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