Solution and Data Architect

Marriott International - Providence, RI

Full-time - Senior

Providence, RI

Accommodation

About the position

At Marriott International, our vision and goal is to become the world's favorite travel company. We celebrate the dreamers who make their own mark, and with good reason. Our success is measured by the joy and satisfaction we bring our customers. Our world-class Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program, portfolio of 8,800+ properties across the globe and 30 brands makes us a leader in the travel & hospitality space. Being world-class is possibly only through being able to hire and retain the best talent. We are looking for a highly dynamic and hands-on technical architect to join our Global Technology - Enterprise Architecture team. This individual will be responsible for helping to define, advance and execute the technology future of our Loyalty platform. This includes extending and modernizing our Core Loyalty and Loyalty Finance architecture to enable greater levels of business innovation, scale and services that delight and surprise our customers with unique Loyalty offerings, partnerships and on-property benefits. This individual will collaborate across various domains to create integrated Loyalty solutions exposed through partners, web, mobile, smart devices and voice channels. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of collaboration, designing, building, and implementing architectures that are highly scalable, resilient, secure and flexible. This individual will work with product owners, other architects, software-designers and delivery leads across the organization to extend and introduce new technology into our Loyalty platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead and define Loyalty projects architecture solutions to enable business objectives and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Define the Loyalty systems architecture vision to deliver the next generation Loyalty platform and improve travel experience with Marriott.
• Develop the Loyalty Target State Architecture and Roadmaps.
• Understand and evaluate current and emerging technology products and trends.
• Develop reusable design patterns and best practices that can be leveraged by the enterprise.
• Partner and consult with project teams to enable consistent solution design and implementations aligned to the architecture.
• Conduct proof-of-concepts to determine the feasibility of technologies that could provide business benefits.
• Collaborate with business and IT resources to help advance the Loyalty platform agenda across the organization.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years' experience as a software/technical architect or technical engineering lead designing and delivering distributed, scalable and highly resilient enterprise applications.
• Experience of large-scale digital transformations of legacy enterprise systems.
• Experience of evaluating SaaS vendor solutions and defining the architecture to integrate them within large enterprises.
• Experience creating conceptual and logical architectural diagrams, and gaining stakeholder approval/alignment.
• Ability to manage multiple solutions across multiple projects within tight timelines.
• Ability to apply forward-thinking principles and innovation to future-proof business solutions.
• 5+ years' experience with APIs, microservices & event-based architectures and NoSQL technologies.
• 5+ years' experience working with building and deploying distributed applications in Cloud environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Undergraduate degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience.
• Experience of Loyalty and/or Loyalty finance and accounting business processes, software, and audit controls across an enterprise.
• 10+ years relevant work experience in software engineering with a focus on enterprise business systems and real-time integration.
• 6+ years of documenting and communicating solution architectures/designs to peers, executives and stakeholders.
• Experience authoring IT standards, frameworks and patterns related to modern application design.
• Experience in the deployment of business solutions in cloud environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with SaaS solutions across multiple cloud providers.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of IBM Mainframe and DB2.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k benefit for retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities