Job Description

Role Title: Associate Engineering Director, UXLJob Responsibilities:Managing Application Development Standards, Processes, and Tools:

• Works with direct reports to facilitate consistency of service delivery across client groups
• Facilitates compliance with the standard set of application development tools and processes that will drive consistency and predictability throughout the SDLC for all client groups including:
• SDLC standard tools and processes for both waterfall and agile development
• Estimating standard tools and processes, incorporating flexibility for small and large projects
• Deployment standard tools and processes
• Monitors projects for adherence to defined application development processes
• Communicates to Application Development leaders opportunities to create broader IT related and corporate standards and policies where necessary
• Communicates important application development policy changes that affect service provider and/or Marriott operations

Managing Day-To-Day Relationships with Teams:

• Manages application development projects in partnership with IT teams, business partners and providers
• Provides project management of business projects
• Oversees effective reporting within application development team
• Leads project reviews with team on application development projects
• Manages day-to day relationships with all IT teams to promote the delivery of services that meet or exceed the client expectations
• Monitors projects for alignment with defined business case process
• Drives timely resolution of escalated service delivery problems and minimizes the impact of any client service delivery issues
• Manages, and improves service level reporting for application development
• Provides early warning to the appropriate Business Partnership & Planning leaders and team regarding degraded or missed service levels
• Assists with application, development and maintenance of service provider project management standards and tools
• Participates in client portfolio and demand management processes, and engages service providers to ensure client satisfaction

Work with application development service providers:

• Validates the service provider(s) performs the services agreed to by the master services agreement in a manner that is consistent with both the spirit and the letter of the agreement
• Works with team to progress the service providers services to match client needs
• Facilitates team and service provider compliance with the agreement
• Validates service levels meet business needs
• Facilitates the definition and enforcement of good service provider contracts

Supports the IT organization:

• Provides input to ITs business strategy and planning as needed
• Supports and follows defined IT Governance decision rights, standards and practices
• Emphasizes accuracy and effectiveness of estimating and planning management with team
• Provides input to business/discipline and continent IT budgets

Implementing and Managing Continuous Improvement Program:

• Drives adoption of CMMi or similar metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement and alignment with the industry
• Demonstrates continuous improvement through metrics of quality consistency and client satisfaction
• Works with application development service providers, IT teams, and business partners to implement continuous improvement activities
• Responds to issues identified in project surveys or other feedback processes, to continually improve client satisfaction

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIESLeadership:

• Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
• Leading through Vision and Values - Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of employee decision making and action.
• Managing Change - Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges.
• Problem-solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
• Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values.
• Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.

Managing Execution

• Building a Successful Team - Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization.
• Strategy Execution Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
• Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self-and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self-and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.

Skill and Experience:

• 10-12 years software development experience that includes:
• In-depth knowledge of Integration patterns and architectures
• Deep understanding of Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Cloud-Native Design Patterns, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Reactive Systems, CQRS, Event Sourcing, , Actors, Concurrency, Multi-Threading, Virtual Threads, Service Orchestration and Choreography
• Experience with technologiesGraphql, Java 19+, GraalVM, NoSQL, Spring Boot, WebFlux, AOP, Micrometer, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Fargate, Serverless, FaaS, PaaS, DAPR
• Experience & understanding of DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Design Patterns, Istio Service Mesh and OPA
• Strong understanding of API platforms, back-end services, database and networking components of full stack infrastructure
• 5+ years hands-on experience with application development tools
• Experience leading and managing end-to-end integration solutions development for enterprise software or hosted high-tech services.
• Experience with AWS Solutions Architecture
• Experience with Application Platform Architecture
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Experience architecting Highly Concurrent Distributed Systems
• Experience architecting Asychronous Event-Driven and Reactive Systems
• Experience with AWS,EKS,Fargate, Serverless, FaaS, PaaS, DAPR
• Experience with building systems using WebAssembly(WASM)
• Experience with Python, Node.js
• Worked on initiatives to implement Microservices by applying best practices in the industry.
• Successfully lead and managed development of cloud native applications using Play, Akka or SpringBoot.
• Working knowledge in DevOps, Containerization and development of CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms such as Akana, Mulesoft, Apigee, is a plus.
• Capable of performing requirement analysis, solution architecture reviews and high-level solution design, resource-based and API specification development.
• Experience working in an agile development environment with an onshore offshore model.Must be results oriented having demonstrated technology leadership experience in developing cutting edge technology

Education and Certifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Work location: Hyderabad, India.Work mode: Hybrid