Architect of Solution and Data

$113,850 - $216,315/Yr

Marriott International - Denver, CO

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - Denver, CO

5,001-10,000 employees

Accommodation

About the position

The position at Marriott International involves advancing the global operation architecture to enhance guest experiences across their extensive hotel network. The role focuses on developing technology solutions that enable efficient service delivery and self-service options for guests. The individual will work within Product Squads, collaborating with product owners and engineering leads to implement technology roadmaps and manage service providers to ensure successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term strategic goals for architecture vision and standards in conjunction with users, product managers, clients, and other key stakeholders.
• Assess and determine governance, stewardship, and frameworks across the organization.
• Create short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall architecture roadmap.
• Conduct capacity planning, life cycle, duration, usage requirements, feasibility studies, and other tasks.
• Identify and develop opportunities for technology reuse, migration, or retirement.
• Develop and promote architecture methodologies and standards.
• Define requirements to implement appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support technology goals.
• Define requirements for tracking data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement in collaboration with the Service Providers.
• Define requirements to promote the success of enterprise-level application rollouts.
• Define requirements to address issues in regards to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple-platform integration.
• Document architectures and environments to maintain a current and accurate technology view.
• Collaborate with project managers and business unit leaders for all projects.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting mission critical systems.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with application development tools.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification.
• Hands-on experience with at least 2 large scale travel and hospitality system implementations.
• Strong proficiency in Microservices architecture with experience architecting solutions on multiple clouds.
• Solid background in Microservice integration patterns, including SOAP, REST, Streaming & Batch API, Platform Events etc.
• Experience in Spring Boot and must have written/consumed Spring Boot Service.
• Good knowledge of AWS cloud and deploy the app through EKS.
• Keep abreast with the latest Cloud technology and PCI/PII data protection features and industry best practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Stronger experience in Hospitality or Travel IT especially on Reservation and Revenue management systems.
• Broad and deep experience in Cloud, Web, API, Microservices, Search, and NoSQL technologies.
• Awareness of mission critical zTPF system architecture.
• Experience architecting applications that support multi-cloud provider and globally distributed deployments.
• Ability to manage multiple solutions across multiple projects across different timelines.
• Experience authoring IT standards, frameworks and patterns related to the modern application design.
• Experience in the deployment of business solutions in Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and On-Prem environments.
• Working Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as the Zachman Framework, TOGAF or FEAF.
• Demonstrated background in architecting in an Agile-delivery environment, (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Passionate learner who actively seeks to learn about new technologies and approaches.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 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
• Childcare discounts