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Join Our Android Platform Team as a Mobile Principal Engineer – Shape the Future of the Marriott Bonvoy App! Define and build the next evolution of mobile solutions that elevate the Marriott experience. You’ll oversee various mini-projects, ensuring they’re delivered on time and within scope —while leveraging the latest technologies in innovative and meaningful ways. As a key technical subject matter expert on our Android Platform Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in advancing the Marriott Bonvoy app, providing strategic technical advisory, helping define the Target Architecture for the Platform and advising on the Mobile Platform Roadmap, while driving innovation and excellence across our feature teams.
Job Responsibility:
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
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
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
Monitors projects for alignment with defined business case process
Drives timely resolution of escalated service delivery problems
Manages, and improves service level reporting for application development
Provides early warning 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
Works with application development service providers
Validates the service provider(s) performs the services agreed to
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
Provides input to IT’s 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
Drives adoption of CMMi or similar metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement
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
Requirements:
10+ years of application development leadership experience
Enterprise-scale native mobile application development across multiple platforms with a strong capability in Android
Expert-level Android architecture and coding abilities in Kotlin and knowledge of Java
Extensive experience in development of a variety of large apps supporting millions of users at scale in Android
Management of multiple Omni-Channel development efforts integrating with multiple back-end systems
Experience with Automation, CI/CD, Release Management processes and Application Deployments to app stores
Familiarity with Enterprise-level SDKs for Analytics, Networking, Customer Engagement, Application Performance Monitoring
Strong understanding of API platforms, backend services, database and networking components of full-stack infrastructure
Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education + experience
Nice to have:
Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations
Proven knowledge of Agile methodology
preferably SAFe Agile
Experience with mixed and offshore delivery models
Good process management, negotiating, influencing and problem resolution skills
Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Knowledge of business environment, service requirements and hospitality culture
Knowledge of / familiarity with the other platform (iOS) as well
Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action
Ability to understand and communicate the lifecycle of technologies and applications and to translate into business strategies for the client organizations
Solid understanding of IT financial structures and ability to manage to corporate financial processes and standards - including drivers of process costs
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy to understand business terms
Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and leading in a managed service environment