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[Remote] Lead Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hilton is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer, Property Technology, to lead delivery of enterprise programs and platform enhancements for Prodigy, its in-house commercial services web application. The role translates technical and business needs into requirements and workflows, partners with product, design, development, and testing teams, and manages refinement priorities and delivery risks.
Responsibilities
- Create technical requirements to deliver new features and capabilities that support enterprise capabilities and platform enhancements
- Break-down complex workflows into unified application experiences
- Transform solution and network diagrams, swagger definitions, and REST API integrations into clear requirements and business process flows that bring capabilities to life
- Collaborate daily with Business Product Owners, UI Engineers, and Designers in an agile environment to challenge current processes and deliver features and requirements
- Lead other Business Analysts by encouraging a culture of ideation, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centric decision-making
- Manage the refinement backlog through weekly refinement and sprint planning, ensuring the platform team advances 40–50% of sprint velocity, approximately 70–80 tickets or 180 story points, into refinement each week
- Connect Hilton's business, technology, and core architecture teams to understand and detail the technology needs and transform requirements into deliverable solutions
- Partner with business product owners, UI/UX designers, development, and testing teams to deliver new functionality and enterprise capabilities
- Navigate a fast-paced agile environment by clarifying ambiguity, developing solutions, and removing roadblocks to keep work moving forward
- Monitor progress against weekly/monthly roadmap and identify potential risks and blockers for scheduled programs
- Prioritize requirements in refinement backlog
- Deliver monthly artifacts such as release notes and product reviews to business and technical teams
Skills
- Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology and Product, or related field
- Three (3) years of experience working in product space delivering detailed requirements to UX designers and front-end UI engineers
- Proficiency with Jira in managing user stories and detailed technical UI requirements
- Understanding of existing software delivery life cycle and how to use AI tooling to modernize the cycle
- Experience working with rest APIs integrations and proficiency understanding swagger file definitions (YAML/JSON)
- Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus 6+ years of Technology/Product related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology/Product related experience
- Seven (7) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Five (5) years of experience working in product space delivering detailed requirements to UX designers and front-end UI engineers
- Two (2) years of work experience managing team members
- Two (2) years of experience with Figma and other design systems
Benefits
- 110 nights of deeply discounted travel, with room rates as low as $40/night at Hilton hotels through the Go Hilton travel program
- Employee stock purchase program (ESPP), with Hilton shares available at a 15% discount
- Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
- Dedicated caregiving concierge services
- Crisis Concierge offering a single point of contact for practical support and emotional care
- Eligible Team Members can access free counseling and support through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Health plans covering employees and their families
- Retirement plans
- Eligible team members may participate in the Hilton Annual Incentive (Bonus) Plan, consistent with other team members at the same level and/or position within the Company
- Remote work arrangement
- Benefits availability may vary depending on Team Member's location as well as terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of each specific program/plan.
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