Senior Technology Director

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Technology Leader to oversee day-to-day application development projects and software engineering for our Reservations Platform group. This individual will directly manage software engineers and project managers, delivering on commitments to discipline partners and collaborating with architects on major organizational initiatives across multiple channels & platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 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 IT's 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

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 10+ years of application development leadership experience that includes:
• 7+ years of technical experience within architecture development, integration of backend systems and development
• In-depth knowledge of integration approaches and architectures
• Deep understanding of the pros and cons with cloud-native solution, microservices-architecture and API orchestration architecture
• Experience with technologies – Java, NoSQL, Spring boot and WebFlux, Kafka, Docker, K8s, Cloud
• Experience & understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, service mesh, LTM, GTM, SEO etc.
• Strong understanding of API platforms, back-end services, database and networking components of full stack infrastructure
• Direct management of cross functional, sourced, or matrixed teams
• Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education + experience
• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations
• Proven management experience in strategic planning and budgeting within one or more business groups
• Experience with and knowledge of IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment
• Proven management experience in application development across waterfall and agile environments.
• Proven knowledge of SDLC; good understanding of ITIL v3 Framework
• Proven knowledge of Agile methodology; preferably SAFe Agile
• Relevant technology certifications
• 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
• 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
• Ability to bridge the gap between technology and business
• Self-driven, curious and a fast-learner, and able to work in a fast-paced environment launching new consumer products to market
• Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate between technical and business teams
• Excellent collaborator, working in fully agile product or software delivery teams regionally
• Experience working in a Product-based model and building strong partnerships with Product owners by providing innovative technology solutions to complex business problems
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to both Product owners in a business-friendly manner and to Enterprise Architects in most technical detail
• Experience/ understanding of GraphQL
• Strong experience and knowledge of what it takes to operate a production platform
• Experience with Automation testing, Performance Engineering, CI/CD, Release Management processes and Application Deployments.

Education and Certifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

Work Mode: Hybrid