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Senior Engineer, Stay Experiences & Technical Operations

Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Address: 1 - Corp Atlanta Ravinia, Three Ravinia Drive, Suite 100, 30346

Job number: 163048

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The Senior Engineer, Stay Experiences & Technical Operations is responsible for the technical design, validation, and operational readiness of Digital Guest Experience solutions across global hotel environments. This role ensures that solutions such as Digital Check-in, Digital Key, Messaging, and In-Room technologies are feasible, scalable, and stable across a highly variable hotel infrastructure landscape.

This individual serves as a senior technical contributor, partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Vendors, and Regional teams to assess readiness, support deployments, resolve complex technical issues, and drive ongoing improvements in system reliability and performance.

This role plays a critical part in bridging product ambition with real-world hotel technical realities.

 

Your Day to Day

  • Technical Readiness & Solution Validation: Assess and validate the technical readiness, feasibility, and scalability of Digital Guest Experience solutions across diverse hotel environments.
  • Solution Design & Documentation: Develop and maintain technical documentation, integration flows, configuration standards, and system dependency mappings for Stay solutions.
  • Production Support & Incident Management: Serve as an escalation point for complex production issues, leading root cause analysis and driving resolution of systemic technical defects.
  • Vendor & Integration Engineering: Partner with strategic vendors and internal engineering teams to evaluate integrations, support deployments, and ensure technical performance standards are met.
  • Deployment & Operational Enablement: Support pilots, deployments, and operational readiness activities by identifying technical risks, validating environments, and resolving deployment blockers.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Regional teams to align Stay solutions with enterprise standards, operational realities, and long-term scalability goals.
  • IHG Lab & Showcase Space Ownership: Set up and manage technical solution operations of IHG’s stay lab and showcase spaces

 

What We Need from You

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience. 
  • Typically a minimum of 7+ years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.

  • Strong understanding of enterprise system integrations, including APIs, middleware, and third-party vendor ecosystems. Familiarity with hotel technology environments, including PMS platforms, door lock systems, network infrastructure, and guest-facing applications

  • Demonstrated proficiency and technical knowledge of infrastructure fundamentals (networking, TCP/IP, security protocols, cloud environments)

  • Understanding of project management lifecycle from conception through implementation. Relevant proficiency and technical knowledge of Operating Systems/Applications infrastructure technologies.

  • Demonstrated proficiency with application and network monitoring / visualization tools and system monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting tools. Ability to perform root cause analysis across multiple systems and vendors

  • Demonstrated proficiency in analytical, problem solving and root cause analysis skills with ability to correlate cross-platform technologies.

  • Experience with the software development life cycle from conception through implementation. Strong understanding of enterprise system integrations, including APIs, middleware, and third-party vendor ecosystems

 

Technical Skills

  • Experience with hotel-specific technologies (PMS, Digital Key, Wi-Fi, or in-room systems) 
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) 
  • API integration and middleware platforms 
  • Network infrastructure (routing, switching, firewalls) 
  • Identity, authentication, and security frameworks 
  • Vendor platform integrations (e.g., guest experience platforms, messaging systems) 
  • Automation and scripting (DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines)

 

Travel – 10%

Location – Atlanta, GA: Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

The salary range for this role is $95,000.00 to $110,000.00.  This role is also eligible for bonus pay (as applicable). We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, and other benefits to employees.  

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Who we are

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.

Important information:

  • The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
  • No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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