Job Description

The Director, MarTech Engineering is responsible for leading engineering teams and programs that power Marriott’s Cobrand and Digital Merchandising Experience (DME) capabilities across a variety of channels to include web, mobile, and Guest Room Technology.

This role oversees engineers working on critical MarTech platforms that enable personalization, digital merchandising, and data‑driven customer experiences at scale. The Director will partner closely with Product, MarTech, and Platform leaders to evolve our next‑generation data layer (ACDL), Dynamic Content Assembly (DCA), and personalization capabilities, while ensuring solutions are performant, scalable, and aligned with long‑term digital platform strategy.

Note, this role has an identified candidate.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering teams supporting Cobrand and Digital Merchandising Experience (DME) initiatives.

• Own delivery and execution of MarTech engineering programs across web and mobile platforms.

• Provide technical leadership for the evolution of the data layer, digital content assembly, and personalization architecture.

• Partner with Product, MarTech, and Platform stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions.

• Ensure MarTech implementations are performant, reliable, and aligned with platform standards and architectural direction.

• Drive consistency, reuse, and simplification across MarTech patterns and integrations.

• Mentor engineers, fostering strong technical judgment and ownership.

• Influence outcomes across teams without direct ownership by setting clear direction, standards, and expectations.

Required:

• 7+ years’ experience in software design and development with expert level expertise in multiple programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS.

• 5+ years hands-on experience with application development tools and content management systems like Adobe Experience Manager

• Experience in building enterprise scale web applications using micro front-end architecture

• Experience with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks, CSS pre-processors, ES6, JavaScript build tools

• Experience in developing software using Front-end libraries/frameworks - primarily React

• Experience in customizing webpack configurations and writing custom plugins to bundle code as UMD bundle for isomorphic consumption

• Strong knowledge in SEO, WCAG compliance, performance optimization techniques

• Experience in applying software engineering best practices, setting front-end software and UX implementation standards

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Preferred:

• Experience in waterfall and/or agile software methodologies

• Experience with DevOps tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Dynatrace

• Demonstrated UI implementation experience, and with a portfolio of work that demonstrates detailed attention to typography, color, imagery, motion, and graphic elements

• Experience in developing custom reusable components using Atomic Design

• Experience in integrating Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) with react components in both headful and
  headless manner

• Experience in using Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, and Junit with Mockito

• Experience of working in multi repository code base

• Experience in writing deployment configurations

• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, XML, REST APIs etc)

• Relevant technology certifications

• Experience with 3rd Party SDK integrations such as Google Maps and other open source libraries

• Experience with Play / Akka frameworks or Spring Boot

• Working knowledge and experience of SOA using RESTful web services and API platform integrations

• Understanding of latest trends in web technologies,

• Demonstrated understanding of industry trends, development products and environments as well as best practices for web application design and development

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate future software engineering opportunities

• Technology leadership experience in a sourced environment

• 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

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 celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates.  We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.

All positions offer a 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. Click here to learn more.

Full-time positions also 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 and educational assistance.
Washington Applicants Only Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.