Director, DevCon Platform Engineering
Employer not yet confirmed · Bethesda, Maryland, United States
JOB SUMMARY
The Director, DevCon Platform Engineering leads the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team and drives product strategy, execution, and adoption. The DevCon product serves as the enterprise's self-service platform for infrastructure provisioning, application onboarding, platform operations, and cloud automation, enabling development teams to deliver software faster, more securely, and with greater operational consistency. Its architecture includes UI Portal, Automation APIs, Workflow Engine, and relies on Infrastructure as Code automation, and other platform integrations.
This leader owns the day-to-day operation of the DevCon team, balancing product strategy, engineering execution, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership. The ideal candidate combines strong platform engineering expertise with a product mindset, enabling them to translate developer needs into a strategic platform roadmap while delivering measurable improvements to developer experience and engineering productivity. The Director will foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement, ensuring the team is empowered to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions. This leader will work closely with stakeholders across Global Technology and the business to align priorities, drive adoption of best practices, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, software engineering or related field or equivalent experience/certification
- 8+ years’ progressive software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience including:
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale solutions
- Proven experience owning and operating a developer platform, platform engineering function, or engineering product
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform or comparable technologies.
- Experience working with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices and full-stack application architectures.
- Deep knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and operational excellence.
- Strong technical product management and roadmap planning capabilities.
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
Preferred:
- Graduate degree in a technical discipline
- Experience leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) initiatives with a focus on product strategy.
- Experience building self-service engineering platforms and developer portals.
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Temporal, and modern cloud-native development patterns
- Experience leading organizational transformation through platform engineering practices.
- Experience with AI-powered developer tooling and platform automation.
- Experience operating highly available enterprise platforms serving multiple engineering organizations.
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Team Leadership & Delivery
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team responsible for the Internal Developer Platform.
- Establish team objectives, priorities, operating rhythms, and delivery commitments.
- Drive engineering excellence through mentorship, coaching, hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Remove organizational blockers and ensure successful execution of platform initiatives.
Product Strategy & Platform Ownership
- Serve as the product leader, partnering with engineering, cloud, security, infrastructure, and application teams to understand developer needs and platform opportunities.
- Define and manage the platform roadmap, prioritizing investments that improve developer experience, productivity, reliability, and operational maturity.
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability.
- Establish adoption metrics, success criteria, and feedback mechanisms to continually improve the platform.
Platform Engineering & Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership to both their team, and collaborating functions
- Partner closely with platform architects to define technical direction and architectural standards.
- Ensure platform capabilities are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy.
- Participate in architectural reviews and major technical decisions.
Stakeholder & Executive Engagement
- Build strong relationships with engineering leaders, product teams, cloud organizations, and executive stakeholders.
- Communicate platform strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership.
- Advocate for developer experience and platform investments across the organization.
- Manage competing priorities while aligning stakeholders around shared outcomes.
At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.