Manager Software Engineering

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN, McLean, VA or Dallas, TX
This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, modern technologies improving the hospitality industry around the world! As a Manager Software Engineering, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Software Engineering – Portfolio Management team, reporting to the Director Portfolio Management, you will support projects including working with hotel teams, corporate finance, and internal partners. Your responsibilities include defining and delivering technology applications that support financial applications.
What you'll do during a typical day:
Support Hilton's custom-built financial application and overall software strategy, ensuring enhancements align with priorities and meet defined acceptance criteria.
Design and deliver high-quality technical solutions using established methodologies, minimizing rework and meeting business and end-user needs.
Serve as an escalation point for critical priorities, driving issue resolution and coordinating across engineering teams and external partners.
Define and manage requirements, use cases, and user stories, supporting Agile delivery through Confluence and Jira.
How you'll collaborate with others:
Partner across Financial/PMS vendors, technology workstreams, and finance stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with agreed standards and expectations.
Guide internal and external partners, identify risks early, manage expectations, and drive mitigation plans to support successful delivery outcomes.
Track and communicate progress, issues, and risks to stakeholders and leadership while collaborating in Agile with Engineering to deliver features and validate junior developer code against requirements.
Projects you'll take ownership of:
Build and deliver special projects with care for priorities, combining software engineering leadership with collaboration across business and technical teams.
Mobilize Hilton Technology teams and external partners to quickly address issues and deliver enhancements for projects.
What It Takes to Make the Stay
You have these minimum qualifications:
Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or a related field
Three (3) years of experience in software/platform design, implementation, and IT project management.
Two (2) years of experience with ASP/VB.net, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, Python, PowerShell, and SSRS, including writing and debugging complex SQL (functions, stored procedures, and views).
Hands-on knowledge of modern development practices (Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, cloud architecture, APIs), with the ability to review designs, guide technical decisions, and remove delivery blockers.
Experience partnering with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and external partners to translate priorities into executable engineering roadmaps.
This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (Memphis, McLean, Dallas)
Travel up to 5%
It would be useful if you have:

Work arrangement
Hybrid