Lead Platform Engineer

Job-:
Technology

Location:

Dallas, TX, United States;
McLean, VA, United States;
Memphis, TN, United States;
United States Workplace:
Remote

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Equal Opportunity

Employer:

EOE, including disability/vets Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You This role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX or Memphis, TN; or Remote 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)
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…