Lead Directory Services Engineer
***This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN or Dallas, TX***
This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Directory Services Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. As a part of the Directory and Collaboration Services team, reporting to the Sr Manager of Directory Services, you will support normal operations and major projects critical to providing Identity and Access management services across the enterprise, including developing, testing, debugging, and documenting platform operations, and applications integrations.
HOW WE WILL SUPPORT YOU
Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:
- Go Hilton travel program: 110 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
- Hilton Shares: Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
- Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
- Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Learn more about the rest of our benefits
At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities and programs through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate.
**Available benefits may vary depending upon terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of the plans.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.
What your day-to-day will be like:
- Develop and implement authentication and identity operating standards.
- Develop tools and scripts to increase automation and streamline operations.
- Manage the PingFederate and PingDirectory platforms providing LDAP, SAML and Oauth services to the enterprise.
- Evolve the Single-Sign On and LDAP services to improve resiliency and ensure continuity of business operations.
- Resolve incidents, perform root cause analysis, and improve service quality.
- Complete SAML, OAuth and OIDC application onboarding through requirements analysis, design, implementation, and operational stages.
How you will collaborate with others:
- Build relationships across the Technology Directory and Collaboration Services team, along with the larger Infrastructure community, to understand how the portfolio integrates with Hilton systems.
- Take initiative to learn the interdependencies and recommend opportunities to evolve and streamline the operations
- Create proactive processes to improve uptime and system processing which will support technology initiatives
- Be curious about how the systems interconnect to develop a comprehensive understanding and to promote creative solutions
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
You have these minimum qualifications:
- Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Three (3) years of experience working with PingFederate and PingDirectory or comparable identity federation and directory solutions
- Experience coding in OGNL
- Experience with Java development
- Technical knowledge of Operating Platforms (Windows, UNIX, Active Directory)
- This is a hybrid role and would require to be near our Dallas or Memphis office location.
- Willing to travel up to 15%
It would be useful if you have:
- Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus 6+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience
- Seven (7) + years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Five (5) + years of direct experience with Ping, LDAP, and directory structures
- Three (3) + years of experience with a Java Application server (WebLogic, WebSphere, Glassfish, or Apache Tomcat)
- Experience developing/implementing web interfaces (SOAP, CGI, or REST)
- Experience with the Atlassian Collaboration Stack
- Experience with markup languages (XML, XHTML)
- Experience with multi-factor authentication solutions
WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON
Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!
We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.