Manager Platform Architect API Enablement
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:
- Guide teams in using Hilton's core APIs and supporting the teams providing Hilton's core APIs
- Be the bridge between API consumers and development teams, validating requested APIs against solution needs, security considerations and API usage models, and communicating across all levels and disciplines. Work collaboratively and independently.
- Analyze and translate business requirements, gather use cases for API access, challenge and guide requesting teams on API utilization, and collaborate across the organization to align needs with available or new APIs.
- Collaborate with Build & Test teams to understand the usage model, set-up, technical vision, tradeoffs between usability and performance, and other considerations for API use.
- Organize, communicate & present ideas across levels, apply management and project management tools to support team efforts, and identify changes in processes, technology, or roles to advance business goals.
How you will collaborate with others:
- You will manage three (3) direct reports, guiding their work to align with enterprise goals, coordinating regular check-ins, and overseeing their development.
- Your collaborators will include Architects, Developers, security professionals, project teams, and others to ensure solutions accessing the core APIs align with our enterprise strategy and do not adversely impact, security, stability, or performance.
- You will join architecture handover calls with Architects & Developers, initiate meetings with Build teams to understand their APIs, meet with Requestors to align their use cases with available APIs.
What projects you will take ownership of:
- API Adoption for Core Services: Help internal and external API consumers use Hilton's APIs to integrate.
- Platform Architecture Enhancements: Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and other enablement functions – contributing to smooth deployment of new services across environments.
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
You have these minimum qualifications:
- Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Exposure to use or development of APIs
- Experience with Splunk, Swagger Editor, Atlassian Stack and/or Postman or related technologies
- This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (Memphis, Dallas, McLean).
- Travel up to 15%, as needed
It would be useful if you have:
- Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus six plus (6+) years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus twelve plus (12+) years of Technology related experience
- Experience with Architecture Diagramming – data flows, network diagrams, interaction diagrams – and API Framework library and API Gateway
- Knowledge of hotel-based IT systems and applications
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.