Engineering Director

Job Description

We are the Digital & Business Factory of the Accor Group, the innovation and transformation laboratory of the global leader in the hospitality industry; 

With our 700 - Heartist®, we bring together the best of hospitality and the best of tech & digital. 

Our ambition: to offer personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences. 

Here, we give birth to new ways of traveling in each of our 5,500 hotels, closest to our 100 million customers in 110 countries. 

Here, we are at the heart of a fantastic playground for designing and creating digital products and services, for our customers and our hotel teams, generating maximum value for our company. 

Here, your scope will have no boundaries, so dare to impact on the world with us! 

Here is where your greatest challenge awaits you: 

Within the Business, Digital & Tech department, the Tribe Brands mission is to develop the best digital experiences of our brand websites with a booking and stay experience that differentiates it from the other channels.

The Tribe manages the digital experience of a large portfolio of brands (over 10) with some iconic brands such as Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Ibis … and is focused to develop revenues and boost local & augmented hospitality experience.

The main pillars of our strategy rely on:

• Deliver premium, intuitive, immersive user path by promoting hotel services to push upsell
• Provide a simplified experience with a mobile first strategy
• Offer a tailor-made digital experience cross brand by providing personalization offers and services

Your mission: 

• Collaboratively with the Product Director you will define the quarterly roadmap, drive successful delivery of Tribe OKRs and manage the Tribe capacity and budget.

• Accountable for high level of performance and quality of the product delivery.

• Define and fosters engineering standards (security, architecture, quality, performance…) and improves engineering excellence in alignment with peers

• Contribute to shape the Tribe backlog by enriching it with technical items

• Encouraging and empowering the Feature Teams to deliver against the tribe’s purpose and critical metrics

• Understanding issues and key areas of risk within the domain and driving risk analysis to inform strategic outcomes of deliverables

• Acting as servant leader to quickly solve FT problem and remove obstacles and link connections with other FTs where appropriate

• Engaging regularly with FT leaders on FT output and providing the right level of feedback to enable FT alignment and autonomy

Tech Stack & Environment:

• CMS & DAM Platform: Adobe AEM Sites & Assets
• HTML/ CSS, Responsive design, Preprocessing Less et Sass
• JavaScript (Vue.js), JSON, REST API
• Software Factory: Git, Gitlab CI, Gulp, Webpack, Jest…

Qualifications

And you? 

• Strong experience in managing engineering teams, with the ability to mentor, support, and develop technical talent.

• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and strong expertise in Agile methodologies to enhance collaboration and product delivery.

• Good experience with CMS & DAM platforms with understanding of templates, components and authoring requirements principles.

• Knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager solutions (CMS & DAM) is a plus.

• Extensive knowledge of digital websites ecosystem and best practices (SEO, A/B testing, web accessibility, analytics, web performance optimization…)

• Proven experience working with 3rd Party providers (offshore) to maintain healthy partnerships and deliver operational excellence

• Proactive and passionate about resolving pain points through great design

• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines

• Dedication and willingness towards continuous improvement and learning new skills and capabilities

• Fluent in French & Professional English (written & oral)