his is a key technology role to build and manage Asia Pacific excluding Greater China & Mongolia (APACx) region technology delivery capability. The Manager of Technology Development owns the vendor delivery model for APACx with an initial focus on India Springboard initiatives. The role is hands-on and accountable for sourcing, onboarding, and leading India-based vendor teams to deliver software that meets Hilton engineering standards, while bridging India partnership solutions to global platforms by referencing proven China partnership practices.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Your role is important, and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.
- Directly contribute to the codebase by designing, prototyping, and building the most critical and complex components of our partner backend and APIs.
- Stand up and lead an elite team of developers, deep dive into technical details and write code to unblock complex integration and/or platform challenges.
- Source, evaluate, and onboard vendor partners, drive SOWs, commercials, and performance SLAs with measurable outcomes.
- Own day-to-day delivery for India (backlog, sprint execution, release), coordinating closely with Product, partner platform architecture, and global backend teams.
- Enforce Hilton software engineering standards across code quality, security, testing, documentation, and operational readiness; perform code/design reviews and hands-on coaching.
- Partner with Security, Privacy, and Compliance to embed PDPA/GDPR/India DPDP controls, secure coding, SAST/DAST, secrets management, and data minimization.
- Manage capacity planning, forecasting, and vendor throughput; optimize cost-to-serve and productivity.
- Drive production readiness reviews, playbooks, and on-call rotations with vendors; ensure swift incident response and post-incident learning.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging digital trends and technologies (e.g., AI, Serverless, DevOps, Low-Code/No-Code) and assess their applicability to our goals.
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