Technical Architect - Application

Job Number 24043779

Job Category Information Technology

Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule Full-Time

Located Remotely? Y

Relocation? N

Position Type Management

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a talented Technical Architect to spearhead the design and development of our internal developer portal. This role is crucial in shaping our technological landscape, fostering innovation, and optimizing our internal processes. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in AWS services, extensive application development experience, and a visionary mindset to lead our team towards future-proof solutions.

We are seeking a visionary and innovative Lead Architect to spearhead the creation of our internal developer portal. This portal is envisaged as the single-pane-of-glass interface that will empower our application developers by providing a centralized platform with self-service automation capabilities. The ideal candidate will architect a solution that simplifies and accelerates the project and environment setup processes, driving efficiency and productivity across the development teams.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Minimum Qualifications

Required:

• Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent work experience and certifications

• 8+ years' progressive leadership in solutions, development, and technical architecture that includes working across multiple client/business disciplines and IT

• 5+ years' experience in leveraging current and emerging cloud-native technologies across IT platforms

• 3+ years' experience in the following:

• Designing and building infrastructure and applications for performance, scalability & reliability

• Establishing and facilitating the evaluation, selection, and introduction of technology and software development strategies across multiple IT Organizations.

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Python)

• Modern purpose-built cloud-native storages, RDBMS Databases (Oracle, DB2, RDS), and NoSQL Databases (Couchbase, DocumentDB)

• Proficiency in application development using languages such as Java, Python, or Node.js, along with experience with modern frameworks and technologies

• Excellent understanding of software architecture principles, microservices architecture, and RESTful API design.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions on time and within budget constraints.

Preferred:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy-to-understand business terms

• Undergraduate/graduate computer science or information systems degree

• Infrastructure engineering leadership experience

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, solve complex problems, and drive innovation.

• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations

• Proven experience delivering infrastructure solutions using agile SAFE methods

• Experience working with Enterprise APIs and working with API management platforms

• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action

• Team-oriented, collaborative leadership skills

• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and monitoring processes

• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience building shared services platforms like event hubs, data lakes, enterprise logging, etc.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment.

• Experience with Multi-cloud environments

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Serve as a forward-thinking thought leader, keeping abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in developer tooling and portal design.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

• Designs and develops sustainable infrastructure architectures across multiple cloud provider platforms.

• Consults on and influences infrastructure engineering best practices in an event driven architecture, leveraging and defining DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring.

• Manages day-to day relationships with Technology teams to promote the onboarding of new services that meet or exceed the program/IT expectations

• Craft technical artifacts and presentations to communicate architectural design options that help educate product, engineering, and business users and teams

• Support product development teams, other infrastructure teams (network, end user computing, security, etc.) around implementation of solutions

• Maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance, cost management and tech debt management perspective)

• Work with Global Security to define security requirements, as well as design and implement solutions

• Work with application development teams to ensure solutions support required data protection standards

• Ensure solutions are able to achieve required RPO/RTO objectives for disaster recovery.

• Analyzing complex business and software requirements leading to the selection and implementation of appropriate technical public cloud architectural solutions

• Define the infrastructure architecture for leveraging cloud-native, open-source, and SaaS solutions in collaboration with Application Development, Security, and Network.

• Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the solution

Managing Projects and Priorities

• Functions as a strategic senior technical expert within the department.

• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.

• Champions leaders' vision for product and service delivery.

• Makes and executes the necessary decisions to keep moving forward toward achievement of goals.

• Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.

• Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to promote completion of any projects on schedule.

• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

• Reviews vendor proposals and selects appropriate vendor for services/technologies/hardware.

• Thinks creatively and practically to develop, execute and implement new project plans.

• Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.

• Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.

Delivering on the Needs of Key Stakeholders

• Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.

• Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.

• Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.

• Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.

Providing Technical Support and Consultation

• Provides technical expertise and technical leadership within own and other teams.

• Provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness of processes and programs.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of function-specific procedures.

• Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.

• Foresees, identifies and resolves problems.

• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.

• Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.

California Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $110,550.00 to $245,238.00 annually.

Colorado Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $110,550.00 to $222,943.00 annually.

Hawaii Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $133,766.00 to $245,238.00 annually.

New York Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $110,550.00 to $245,238.00 annually.

Washington Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $110,550.00 to $245,238.00 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus and restricted stock units/stock grants. Employees will accrue 0.04616 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 7 holidays annually.

All locations offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, educational assistance, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.

The application deadline for this position is 21 days after the date of this posting, 3/12/2024.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.

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