Principal Engineer – Android Mobile Engineering
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Job Location:
Bethesda, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join Our Android Platform Team as a Mobile Principal Engineer Shape the Future of the Marriott Bonvoy App!
Are you ready to make a real impact with your code Define and build the next evolution of mobile solutions that elevate the Marriott experience. Youll oversee various mini-projects ensuring theyre 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 youll 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.
Youll collaborate with top-tier talentincluding other Principal Engineers Engineering Directors Solution Architects Feature Team Tech Leads Product Leads UX Designers QA Engineers and more to deliver high-impact solutions that matter. Youll be the go-to expert for tackling the toughest problems and delivering high-quality scalable solutions. Your work will directly support our strategic goals blending hands-on development with technical advisory responsibilities leading architecture and framework initiatives.
In this role youll partner with Product Owners and lead technical workgroups acting as a go-to expert for complex non-routine challenges. Youll dive into research design and implementation of cutting-edge capabilities that meet both current and future developer and user needs while ensuring alignment with our highest standards in design technology and security.
Youll lead by exampleconducting code reviews mentoring developers and recommending improvements to workflows tools and standards that elevate the entire mobile engineering discipline.
As a thought leader youll stay on the cutting edge of the mobile ecosystem exploring OS and device capabilities researching emerging tools and libraries and assessing new technologies through hands-on proofs of concept. Youll also play a key role in educating and inspiring the broader mobile engineering communityboth inside and outside the organization.
If youre passionate about crafting elegant code solving real-world problems and working in a dynamic collaborative environment wed love to meet you.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
- 10 years of application development leadership experience that includes:
- 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
Preferred:
- 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
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Managing Application Development Standards Processes and Tools
- 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
- 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 that affect service provider and/or Marriott operations
Managing Day-To-Day Relationships with Teams
- 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 to promote the delivery of services that meet or exceed the client expectations
- Monitors projects for alignment with defined business case process
- Drives timely resolution of escalated service delivery problems and minimizes the impact of any client service delivery issues
- Manages and improves service level reporting for application development
- Provides early warning to the appropriate Business Partnership & Planning leaders and team 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 and engages service providers to ensure client satisfaction
- Works with application development service providers
- Validates the service provider(s) performs the services agreed to by the master services agreement in a manner that is consistent with both the spirit and the letter of the agreement
- 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
- Supports the IT organization
- Provides input to ITs 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
Implementing and Managing Continuous Improvement Program
- 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
At Marriott International we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture talent and experiences of our are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis including disability veteran status or other basis protected by applicable law.
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