Loyalty Solution Architect - Bethesda, United States - Marriott International, Inc

Marriott International, Inc

Verified Company

Bethesda, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job Number

Job Category Information Technology

Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule Full-Time

Located Remotely? Y

Relocation? N

Position Type Management

JOB SUMMARY

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.

At Marriott, our success is measured by the joy and satisfaction we bring our customers.

Much of that success is driven by our award-winning Loyalty program Bonvoy, and the member benefits that can be enjoyed by staying at one of our 8,800+ properties or taking advantage of exclusive travel experiences and the amenities offered at one of our 30 brands.

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.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

Experience of largescale 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
5+ years' experience with APIs, microservices & eventbased architectures and NoSQL technologies

Preferred:

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 realtime integration
6+ years of documenting and communicating solution architectures/designs to peers, executives and stakeholders.
Experience in the deployment of business solutions in cloud environments
Demonstrated background in architecting in an Agiledelivery environment, (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
Passionate learner who actively seeks to learn about new technologies and approaches
Working knowledge of IBM Mainframe, and DB
Excellent client/user interaction skills to determine requirements
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excellent presentation and people skills
Ability to present complex ideas in userfriendly language
Ability to lead peer reviews across many domains
Ability to lead complex, crossfunctional problemsolving initiatives.
Experience in researching and evaluating emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Defining the Future-State Loyalty Architecture & Supporting Loyalty Business Projects

Leads and defines Loyalty projects architecture solutions to enable business objectives, and drive stakeholder alignment and drive detail design by engineers
Leads and defines the Loyalty systems architecture vision to deliver the next generation Loyalty platform and improve their travel experience with Marriott.
Defines solutions and patterns that address system and partner integration
Leverages shortterm tactical solutions to achieve longterm objectives and advance the overall Loyalty management capabilities
Identifies and develops opportunities for reuse, migration, or retirement

Enterprise Planning & Execution

Development of 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
Socialize and educate the organization including service providers on design patterns that have been developed

Solution Architecture

Develop prototypes and architecture artifacts to support projects
Partner and consult with project teams to enable consistent solution design and implementations aligned to the architecture
Engage in IT Governance activities to promote consistency and solution compliance

Cross-Training, Technology Research, and Proof-of-Concepts