Job Description

About Us:
Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 9,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories.
From such humble beginnings to becoming the worlds largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator center (MTA), Hyderabad, India, Marriott is exploring the world we live in and all its possibilities. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences. Marriott Tech Accelerator center is fully owned and operated by ANSR. All associates at Marriott Tech Accelerator will be ANSR employees, delivering services exclusively to ANSR's client, Marriott International.
To know more about us, please visit Marriott Tech Accelerator careers page
Role Title: Senior Software Engineer II
Position Summary:
Marriott is entering an exciting era of tech transformation. This role functions as a technical and solution architecture expert. Responsible for defining and creating scalable/secure system solutions to deliver real world capabilities within a rapidly evolving digital platform. Leads engagement across multiple teams and stakeholders to make decisions on complex, non-routine service requests with moderate to medium risk. Performs research, analysis, design, creation and implementation of applications to meet current and future user requirements. Defines and creates the next generation of solutions to drive Marriott value by creating solutions that serve our business needs leveraging current and leading-edge technologies in an innovative and impactful manner.
Job Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership:

• Provides deep expertise in defining the architectural and technical software solutions to deliver critical capabilities in an enterprise platform
• Provides recommendations and perspective on forward looking technology and tools for future state system development
• Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
• 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
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

Delivering Technology:

• Responsible for creating technical solutions for complex business needs
• Responsible for estimating level of effort to create to deliver solutions
• Validates completeness of requirements when reviewing Service Provider solutions
• Ensures all solutions follow the defined enterprise architecture standards and review 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 Operations and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities

IT Governance:

• Follows all defined IR 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
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes

Service Provider Management:

• Validates that Service Providers develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
• Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources
• Monitors Service Provider outcomes
• Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers for accuracy
• Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients

Skill and Experience:

• 6-8 years of experience developing software using programming languages such as Java, Javascript, Python.
• 4+ years of experience developing architecture solutions for complex and enterprise-level systems.
• 4+ years of experience working with cloud-native services, scalability, security, automation, CI/CD, and public cloud platforms.
• 5+ years of experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
• 3+ years of experience working with messaging platforms such as MQ and/or Kafka.
• 4+ years of experience implementing enterprise-scale MDM or PIM solutions. (OR) 4+ years' experience implementing the Enterprise Search platform.
• An excellent understanding of interpersonal and stakeholder relations, as well as the ability to coordinate technical and business teams.
• Working experience in the e-commerce domain or industry.
• Working experience with the Stibo platform and having relevant certifications.
• On prem implementation of the Stibo platform.
• Working experience with Apache Solr and LucidWorks Fusion.
• Working experience optimizing search engines along with relevancy tuning.
• Working experience with Jenkins and Harness.
• Working experience with AWS.
• Working experience with Docker.
• Hands-on with tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, Service Now, JIRA, Confluence.
• Worked with AI/ML models integrations

Education and Certifications:

• Technology certifications

Work location: Hyderabad, India.
Work mode: Hybrid

Skills Required