About Us: Marriott International Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was founded in May 1927 by J. Willard Marriott and Alice S. Marriott with a modest nine-seat A&W; root beer stand. Guided by the family's leadership and core principles, Marriott International today has grown into a global hospitality giant, operating approximately 10,000 properties and over 30 leading brands in more than 140 countries and territories
From such humble beginnings to becoming the world's largest hotel company, Marriott International has never stopped searching for inventive ways to serve its customers, provide opportunities for its associates, and grow their business. At Marriott Tech Accelerator, we are a team of passionate engineering minds dedicated to creating and building cutting-edge solutions that streamline operations and elevate guest experiences.
Role Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering
The Senior Engineering Manager leads day-to-day application development and platform engineering, directly manages engineering talent, and drives consistent delivery across technology and business partners. The role provides people leadership , technical direction, resolves complex delivery challenges, collaborates with architects and cross-functional leaders, and ensures projects meet quality, timeline, budget, governance, and operational expectations. The leader also establishes a culture of continuous improvement, measurable service quality, and robust stakeholder satisfaction

Managing Engineering Delivery:
Lead application development and platform engineering initiatives in partnership with technology teams, product and business partners, architects, and service providers.
Own delivery planning, estimation, schedules, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and appropriate success metrics.
Conduct project and programme reviews,



monitor alignment with approved business cases, and ensure timely delivery within budget.
Coordinate with SRE, DevOps, Operations, Infrastructure, and vendor-relations teams for deployment and production support.

Engineering Standards, Governance, and Quality:
Validate that requirements are complete before solution design and ensure delivery follows defined development and project-management processes.
Identify opportunities to strengthen enterprise standards and communicate material policy or process changes to relevant teams.
Maintain an appropriate balance between business outcomes, delivery speed, quality, and operational risk.

Define and monitor service levels and reporting, validate that service outcomes meet business needs, and provide early visibility of delivery or service risks.
Establish measurable continuous-improvement practices focused on quality, consistency, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Act on feedback from project surveys, service reviews, retrospectives, and production insights.

People Leadership and Capability Building:
Directly manage, coach, and develop software engineers and other team members, building technical depth, accountability, and succession capability.
Provide input to technology strategy, planning, budgets, and investment decisions.
Translate technical considerations into clear business language and recommend practical courses of action.
Building successful teams; setting high performance standards; Building Relationships:



Talent and Organisational Capability: Skills and Experience:

- 12+ years of application-development experience, including leadership of complex engineering delivery.
- 5+ years of architecture experience with proven delivery across enterprise-scale integrations and high-throughput systems.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing cross-functional, sourced, or matrixed teams.
- Experience delivering in agile and waterfall environments; knowledge of Agile methodologies, preferably SAFe.
- Strong understanding of SDLC and ITIL v3 practices.
- Ability to assess customer needs, translate technical concepts into clear business language, and influence decisions.
- Experience working in a product-based operating model and partnering with product owners to solve complex business problems.
- Strong knowledge of production-platform operations, reliability, observability, and service management.
- Hands-on understanding of Java, NoSQL, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies.
- Experience with SRE, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, automated testing, performance engineering, release management, and application deployment.
- Understanding of API platforms, backend services, databases, networking, and full-stack infrastructure components.
- Working knowledge of hospitality loyalty financial processes and computational transaction flows, including funding, billing, reimbursement, invoicing, accruals, revenue recognition, reconciliation, and end-to-end financial transaction lifecycle management across integrated business and technology platforms would be a big plus

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Hybrid
Being part of Marriott Tech Accelerator means being part of a proud history and a thriving culture.

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Full Stack) (Secunderabad)
🏢 Marriott Tech Accelerator
📍 Secunderabad