**Additional Information** **Job Number** 25083280 **Job Category** Information Technology **Location** Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814VIEW ON MAP (https://www.google.com/maps?q=Marriott%20International%20HQ%2C%207750%20Wisconsin%20Avenue%2C%20Bethesda%2C%20Maryland%2C%20United%20States%2C%2020814) **Schedule** Full Time **Located Remotely?** Y **Position Type** Management This is a temporary position. **Senior Data Engineer, AI Studio at Marriott** **Position Overview** Own the pipelines that feed Marriott’s intelligent assistants. You will design scalable batch and streaming ingestion, automated embedding pipelines, and governance-ready data contracts—ensuring every vector, knowledge-graph edge, and memory byte is fresh, compliant, and cost-efficient. **Key Responsibilities** + Build and operate **streaming + batch ETL/ELT pipelines** that land reservation, loyalty, and property data into analytics, vector, and graph stores. + Automate **embedding generation and refresh** (text, image, voice) with change-data capture and cost-aware routing to GPU/CPU pools. + Define **data contracts** and schema-evolution strategies consumable by autonomous agents and downstream micro-services. + Implement **tiered storage & retention policies** for short-term session memory and encrypted long-term guest profiles. + Instrument pipelines with OpenTelemetry metrics; surface lineage, freshness, and cost dashboards. + Collaborate with Enterprise Architect on data governance standards; partner with Tech Lead to optimise retrieval performance. **Qualifications** + 7 + years data-engineering experience, 2 + years working with embeddings or vector databases. + Hands-on with **Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Kinesis** and modern ELT tooling (DBT, Airflow, Dagster). + Proven expertise in **CDC** , schema evolution, and GDPR/CCPA-compliant data retention. + Comfortable writing production-grade Python/TypeScript and IaC (Terraform/CDK). + Demonstrated cost-optimisation of storage and GPU inference workloads. **Preferred Skills** + Experience populating knowledge graphs (RDF/SPARQL or LPG/Cypher) and stitching them to vector stores. + Prior work automating data quality checks with great_expectations or similar frameworks. The pay range for this position is $47.35 to $84.09 per hour. **Washington Applicants Only:** Employees will accrue 0.0334 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually. FLEX opportunities offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others. Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions. The application deadline for this position is 14 days after the date of this posting, May 19, 2025. _Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law._ Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed. **Be** where you can do your best work,​ **begin** your purpose, **belong** to an amazing global​ team, and **become** the best version of you.