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** You have these minimum qualifications: + Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering \(or equivalent experience\)\. + 7 years in software development/engineering, including 4 years leading multi\-team delivery with vendors or SI partners\. + Proven experience building and managing India\-based vendor engineering teams for customer\-facing digital products at scale\. + Solid technical depth in cloud\-native development on AWS and Kubernetes/EKS, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event\-driven integration\. + Security and privacy by design; familiarity with PDPA \(Singapore\), GDPR, and India DPDP Act\. + Hands\-on technical leadership, able to roll up sleeves on pipelines, quality gates, and code reviews while orchestrating multiple vendor squads\. + Proven, recent hands\-on expertise in our core stack: e\.g\., Java/Spring Boot, JavaScript/Node\.js, PostgreSQL, AWS \(Lambda, API Gateway\), Docker, Kubernetes\. + Strong negotiation and vendor management; clear communicator who can align cross\-functional stakeholders across regions and time zones\. + Builder mentality with operational rigor, balance speed with security, reliability, and documentation\. + Strong sense of ownership and willing to tackle mundane tasks to get the job done and help the team to succeed\. + iOS and/or Android development skills\. It would be useful if you have: + Domain experience in travel/hospitality, loyalty and personalization, identity, and payments \(including UPI\)\. + Event\-driven architectures \(Kafka/MSK/EventBridge\), API management \(Kong/Apigee/Nginx\), secrets management \(Vault/Secrets Manager\)\. + Familiarity CDPs, and marketing automation across WhatsApp/LINE and regional channels\. + Exposure to China/India/Japan digital ecosystems, data residency, and localization practices\. **WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON** Hilton, the \#1 World’s Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world\-class brands \(https://jobs\.hilton\.com/us/en/brands\) \. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more than 100\-year history\. Hilton is proud to have an award\-winning workplace culture, and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces\. Check out the Hilton Careers blog \(https://jobs\.hilton\.com/us/en/blog\) and Instagram \(https://www\.instagram\.com/hiltoncareers/\) to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton\! **Job:** _Technology_ **Title:** _Manager, Technology Development \- Asia Pacific \(APACx\)_ **Location:** _null_ **Requisition ID:** _APA014RD_ **EOE/AA/Disabled/Veterans**