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Role Title: Senior Engineering Manager Position Summary: Marriott is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and manage engineers across multiple teams while making technical contributions in the data streaming domain. This role is a blend of leadership and hands-on technical expertise, ensuring high-performing teams deliver scalable, high-quality solutions. As a people manager, you will focus on talent development, team collaboration, and execution, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. As a technical contributor, you will provide strategic input, design reviews, and problem-solving in the data streaming domain. If you thrive in both leading teams and driving technical excellence, we invite you to join us! Job Responsibilities: Technical Leadership: Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate Ability to work liaising with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes. Delivering Technology: Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects. Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers Validates completeness of requirements prior to Service Provider solutioning Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels Coordinates with Operations and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities IT Governance: Follows all defined IR standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk Follows the defined project management standards and processes Service Provider Management: Validates that Service Providers develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics. Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources Monitors Service Provider outcomes Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers for accuracy Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES Leadership Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods Leading Through Vision and Values - Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of employee decision making and action Managing Change - Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges. Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action. Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values. Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes. Managing Execution Building a Successful Team - Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization. Strategy Execution – Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self-and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self-and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required. Strategic Partnerships - Develops collaborative relationships with fellow employees and business partners by making them feel valued, appreciated, and included; explores partnership opportunities with other people in and outside the organization; influences and leverages corporate and continental shared services and/or discipline leaders (e.g., HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Revenue Management) to achieve objectives; maintains effective external relations with government, business and industry in respective countries; performs effectively as a liaison between locations, disciplines, and corporate to ensure needed resources are received and corporate strategies are understood and executed. Building Relationships Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company’s service standards Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential. Generating Talent and Organizational Capability Developing Others - Supports the development of other’s skills and capabilities so that they can fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities more effectively Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the goals of an organizational unit. Skill and Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering (software development & building products) , with at least 4+ years in leadership role (people management). Proven ability to hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent. Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business perspectives. Strong background in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure/GCP, AWS is preferred) . Experience with any data streaming technology like Apache Kafka /Apache Spark Streaming/Kafka Streams Experience with Java, Microservice architecture and Containerization Preferred skills: Experience leading teams in India for a global organization Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices. Passion for driving technical excellence and innovation within engineering teams Education and Certifications: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Engineering Work location: Hyderabad, India. Work mode: Hybrid