Job Description

We are seeking a highly dynamic and experienced Solution Architect to join the Domain Enterprise Architecture team. This role is responsible for designing and architecting scalable, resilient, and highperformance technology solutions that support the transformation of Marriott’s enterprise product platforms.

As Marriott embarks on a largescale modernization of its core enterprise applications, this role will play a critical part in shaping the future-state architecture. The Solution Architect will work closely with Business, Product, and Engineering teams to translate business outcomes into robust technical solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, architectural patterns, and best practices.

This position will lead architecture efforts across Enterprise applications, including Revenue Management Systems. The role partners closely with IT teams, developers, system administrators, and business stakeholders to deliver stateoftheart, cloudnative platform capabilities that enable Marriott’s enterprise growth.

Candidate Profile

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software development and architecture, demonstrating increasing scope and responsibility

• 3+ years of experience defining transition and targetstate architectures (Solution, Data, Integration, Deployment) for largescale digital transformations

• Proven ability to create architectural artifacts such as conceptual and logical diagrams, domain and data models, usecase journeys, and roadmaps

• 3+ years of handson experience architecting, implementing, or operating applications that ingest and process highvolume data

• Strong handson experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred; others acceptable) and NoSQL databases

• Deep understanding of modern architecture and design principles, including microservices and domaindriven design

• Experience defining APIs and microservices across enterprise domains

• Proven expertise designing cloud deployment topologies with a focus on high availability, scalability, performance, and data integrity

• Strong experience defining and implementing nonfunctional requirements (NFRs)

• Mandatory experience designing highly scalable, eventdriven architectures using streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka and Spark

• Solid understanding of eventdriven architecture and integration patterns, including REST and asynchronous APIs

• Exposure to GraphQL, REST APIs, XML, and serializationbased integrations

• Handson experience with AWS services including EKS, S3, Lambda, EMR, Aurora, DocumentDB, Couchbase Capella, and Snowflake

• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with experience presenting to senior technology and business leaders

• Passion for continuous learning and adoption of emerging technologies and architectural approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference for Hospitality or Travel industry experience

• Experience with Pricing and Revenue Management capabilities, including:

• Revenue forecasting and optimization models (OR or MLbased)

• Price determination and inventory optimization

• Room allocation strategies

• Experience ingesting and processing diverse data sources such as:

• Active and historical bookings (transient and group)

• Competitor pricing data

• Inventory and room definition data

• Experience forecasting inventory utilization, room pricing (cash and points), and loyalty award bands

• Expertise designing dynamic pricing strategies based on enterprisewide data

• Understanding of global data protection and privacy regulations and their impact on architecture and deployment models

• Strong experience implementing enterprisegrade NFRs including security, reliability, availability, observability, scalability, performance, retry mechanisms, reconciliation, and data governance

• Experience evaluating platform health, capacity planning, and defining platform roadmaps

• Handson experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and AppDynamics

• Experience with infrastructure sizing and capacity modeling

• Familiarity with enterprise API gateways (Akana preferred)

• Experience with application “shirt sizing,” architecture visioning, and roadmap development

• Handson programming experience with strong understanding of asynchronous and functional programming paradigms

• Strong grasp of technical debt management and ability to balance architectural rigor with business priorities

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture & Technology Strategy

• Define and deliver longterm technology architecture vision, standards, and roadmaps in collaboration with business leaders, service providers, and key stakeholders

• Establish governance frameworks for managing enterprise technology platforms

• Design shortterm tactical solutions aligned to longterm strategic objectives

• Conduct technology lifecycle assessments, feasibility studies, and usage evaluations

• Identify opportunities for technology reuse, migration, modernization, or retirement

• Ensure architectural compliance with regulatory and security requirements

Architecture Standards & Governance

• Develop and promote enterprise architecture methodologies, patterns, and standards

• Define integration and interoperability standards across platforms and technologies

• Establish guidelines for service providers to ensure performance, reliability, and architectural fidelity

• Ensure accurate documentation of architecture artifacts and technology environments

Collaboration, Leadership & Mentorship

• Partner closely with Product Owners, Engineering teams, and Project Managers across enterprise initiatives

• Serve as a technology leader and advocate, providing coaching and mentorship to engineering teams

• Collaborate with vendors and service providers to select platforms and solutions aligned with business goals

• Mentor engineers to strengthen architectural, design, and technical leadership capabilities

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.