Director, IT Application Development

• Oversee research design and development around GraphQL AOI Platform while leading continuous improvement on process definition and compliance.
• Directly manage software engineers and project managers.
• Lead the interactions with consuming digital teams as well as domain teams to create defined solutions that fit the needs and the architecture.
• Deliver commitments to discipline partners and collaborate with architects on major organizational initiatives across multiple channels and platforms.
• Function as the technical decision maker and problem solver to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• 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 that will drive consistency and predictability throughout the SDLC for all client groups including:
• SDLC standard tools and processes for both waterfall and agile development
• Estimating standard tools and processes incorporating flexibility for small and large projects
• Deployment standard tools and 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 that affect service provider and/or Marriott operations.
• Drives adoption of CMMi or similar metrics to demonstrate continuous improvement and alignment with the industry.
• 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 to continually improve client satisfaction.
• Implement GraphQL resolvers and related aspects using typescript and for different aspects of the hospitality platform including but not limited to fixed date search flexible search member benefits retrieve reservation create reservation modify / cancel order etc.
• Create and review the queries and mutations in Apollo Server.
• Containerize and deploy the GraphQL application using Harness & Docker on EKS.

REQUIREMENTS:Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science Computer Engineering or in a closely related field followed by 10 years of application development must include:

• 8 years of technical experience within architecture development integration of systems and development.
• 5 years of experience with technical delivery of Typescript/JavaScript and related projects.
• 5 years of experience with cloud-native solution microservices-architecture and API orchestration architecture.
• 5 years of experience with API platforms back-end services database and networking components of full stack infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience working with GraphQL using and typescript.
• 3 years of experience with integration approaches and architectures.
• 3 years of experience with DevOps CI/CD pipelines logging metrics monitoring tracing service mesh LTM GTM and/or SEO.
• 3 years of experience with direct management of cross functional sourced or matrixed teams.

Telework: 100% remote; may be performed from anywhere in the U.S.

Travel: Once per quarter to Marriott HQ in Maryland

The salary range for this position is $190040 to $195700 addition to the annual salary the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus.

Washington Applicants Only: 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.

The application deadline for this position is 41 days after the date of this posting August 26 2025.

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