Manager, Technology Development - Asia Pacific (APACx)

Manager, Technology Development - Asia Pacific (APACx)

This 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.

Success measures (first 12 months):

• Stand up at vendor pod in India with defined governance, meeting throughput and quality targets by Q2 post-hire.
• Deliver two India Springboard journeys to production on APACx stack, meeting platform SLOs and business KPIs (conversion, enrollments, customer engagement).
• Reduce partner integration lead time by establishing reusable modules and golden paths; cut onboarding time for new vendor engineers by 30%.

WHY YOU’LL BE A GREAT FIT

WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON

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