FLEX Customer 360, Senior Data Engineer

Marriott • Bethesda, MD

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Marriott has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Director, Customer 360, Sr
Data Engineer.  This role is part of the team focused on building out our next
generation cloud based data , analytics and machine learning platform. 
Appropriate candidates have a passion for data and emerging technologies with a
vision for building next generation capabilities and a strong drive for
success.

In this role, you will provide senior engineering leadership for the Customer
360 Data Platform, with accountability for technical strategy, delivery
outcomes, and the performance of internal teams and service providers. You will
set the technical direction, establish standards, and ensure scalable, secure,
and reliable data engineering solutions are delivered in alignment with business
priorities.

You will be accountable for Service Provider delivery outcomes, including
validation of estimates, adherence to technical standards, quality of
deliverables, and on-time execution. You will provide leadership and direction
to Service Provider technical leads while holding partners accountable for
performance at scale.

In addition you will research emerging technologies that will provide future
capabilities as well as seek solutions for complex technical issues. You will
make decisions on complex, non-routine requests to support analytics based
decisioning by Marriott business teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years’ hands on experience developing large scale data pipelines and applications at enterprise scale
• 4+ years’ Technical delivery ownership of large scale data pipelines and applications
• 3+ years’ experience developing data applications and applications on AWS
• 3+ years’ hands on experience with Hive, HiveQL & Spark
• 2+ years’ hands on experience with Snowflake
• 2+ years’ experience with AWS S3 and Lambda
• 2+ years’ experience in migrating data platforms/applications to AWS
• Strong technical leader with proven ability to lead Service Provider technical resources
• Strong communication skills
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Technology certifications in Snowflake, and Spark
• Experience with Airflow, Python
• Experience with Data Governance Tools such as Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog
• Hashicorp Tokenization Products
• Experience with NoSQL databases, preferable Cassandra
• Experience in agile software methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate future data platform opportunities
• Technology leadership experience in a sourced environment
• AWS Data Analytics certification

Responsibilities

• Provides senior leadership and coaching to engineering teams, fostering technical excellence, consistent standards, and continuous improvement across the organization
• Ability to work liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery
• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes
• Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
• Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning
• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case 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 Application Delivery and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities
• Follows all defined IT 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
• Ability to assess when risks need to be escalated to right channels
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes
• 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

Benefits

• All locations offer 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts.
• Full-time positions also 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, and paid parental leave.
• Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees