Director, Software Engineering – PMS Platform

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Eight or more years of experience in technical program management, technology delivery, application development, platform engineering, or a related discipline, including leadership of complex, cross-functional enterprise technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading programs involving cloud or SaaS platforms, enterprise integrations, external technology providers, and multiple business and technology stakeholder groups.

• Experience with hospitality technology, hotel operations platforms, Property Management Systems, reservations platforms, or similarly complex operational technology ecosystems.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization, platform implementation, deployment, or transformation programs across geographically distributed organizations.
• Project Management Professional, Program Management Professional, SAFe, Agile, or comparable program and delivery management certification.

• Drives the technical delivery and quality engineering strategies for Property Management System platform initiatives and related hotel technology capabilities.
• Partners with Product, Engineering, Hotel Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Support teams to align priorities and coordinate execution.
• Drives the identification, assessment, communication, and mitigation of program risks, delivery constraints, technical dependencies, resource gaps, and operational readiness concerns.
• Coordinates the delivery of enterprise integrations across PMS platforms, application programming interfaces, middleware, event and messaging services, property interfaces, and upstream and downstream enterprise systems.
• Guides technical and architectural discussions to ensure program decisions align with enterprise architecture, security, resiliency, scalability, data protection, and operational support standards.
• Oversees integrated quality and release readiness across system integration testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, performance validation, deployment preparation, and production verification.
• Directs implementation and launch-readiness activities, including release planning, technical cutover coordination, deployment sequencing, production validation, hypercare, and transition to steady-state support.
• Partners with production support and Site Reliability Engineering teams to improve platform observability, operational resilience, incident response, root cause follow-through, and continuous service improvement.
• Provides clear, concise, and decision-oriented communication to senior leaders regarding program health, accomplishments, risks, trade-offs, delivery forecasts, and matters requiring leadership action.
• Facilitates cross-organizational decision-making, resolves competing priorities, and removes impediments that affect delivery across internal teams and external providers.
• Builds strong working relationships across global business and technology organizations while promoting accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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