Principal Engineer – Android - Mobile Engineering

Join Our Android Platform Team as a Mobile Principal Engineer

Are you ready to make a real impact with your code? Define and build the next evolution of mobile solutions that elevate the Marriott experience. You'll oversee various mini-projects, ensuring they're delivered on time and within scope—while leveraging the latest technologies in innovative and meaningful ways. As a key technical subject matter expert on our Android Platform Team, you'll play a pivotal role in advancing the Marriott Bonvoy app, providing strategic technical advisory, helping define the Target Architecture for the Platform and advising on the Mobile Platform Roadmap, while driving innovation and excellence across our feature teams. You'll collaborate with top-tier talent—including other Principal Engineers, Engineering Directors, Solution Architects, Feature Team Tech Leads, Product Leads, UX Designers, QA Engineers and more—to deliver high-impact solutions that matter. You'll be the go-to expert for tackling the toughest problems and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. Your work will directly support our strategic goals, blending hands-on development with technical advisory responsibilities, leading architecture and framework initiatives. In this role, you'll partner with Product Owners and lead technical workgroups, acting as a go-to expert for complex, non-routine challenges. You'll dive into research, design, and implementation of cutting-edge capabilities that meet both current and future developer and user needs while ensuring alignment with our highest standards in design, technology and security. You'll lead by example—conducting code reviews, mentoring developers, and recommending improvements to workflows, tools, and standards that elevate the entire mobile engineering discipline. As a thought leader, you'll stay on the cutting edge of the mobile ecosystem, exploring OS and device capabilities, researching emerging tools and libraries, and assessing new technologies through hands-on proofs of concept. You'll also play a key role in educating and inspiring the broader mobile engineering community—both inside and outside the organization. If you're passionate about crafting elegant code, solving real-world problems, and working in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we'd love to meet you.

Candidate Profile

Education and Experience Required:

• 10+ years of application development leadership experience that includes:
• Enterprise-scale native mobile application development across multiple platforms with a strong capability in Android.
• Expert-level Android architecture and coding abilities in Kotlin and knowledge of Java.
• Extensive experience in development of a variety of large apps supporting millions of users at scale in Android.
• Management of multiple Omni-Channel development efforts integrating with multiple back-end systems.
• Experience with Automation, CI/CD, Release Management processes and Application Deployments to app stores.
• Familiarity with Enterprise-level SDKs for Analytics, Networking, Customer Engagement, Application Performance Monitoring.
• Strong understanding of API platforms, backend services, database and networking components of full-stack infrastructure.
• Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education + experience.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations.
• Proven knowledge of Agile methodology; preferably SAFe Agile.
• Experience with mixed and offshore delivery models.
• 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.
• Knowledge of / familiarity with the other platform (iOS) as well.
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Ability to understand and communicate the lifecycle of technologies and applications and to translate into business strategies for the client organizations.
• 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.

Core Work Activities

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 Marriott 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:

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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