Welcome to the Bright Side® at La Quinta Inns & Suites.

Who is La Quinta?
We help brighten the day of our busy, practical, hardworking travelers and help them take care of their business or leisure travel needs. We provide the best hotel rooms, warmest hotel atmosphere and most courteous service in our market segment at every hotel, every night.

• Fastest growing limited-service hotels in the North America
• Operate and provide franchise services with over 65,000 rooms in over 700 properties
• Locations in 46 states plus Canada and Mexico under the names La Quinta Inns and La Quinta Inns & Suites
• Based out of Dallas, Texas, over 9,000 employees nationwide work on the Bright Side

Our Goal, it's easy
We want for every guest to wake up on the bright side while staying at our hotel. We offer clean and comfortable guest rooms with a dose of advertising humor to help our guest feel optimistic and happy no matter what the day holds. A great portion of this comes directly from our employees attitudes. And as if that wasn't enough, we offer our guest free Bright Side™ breakfast, free hi-speed Internet while they stay with us and comfy beds. Many of our properties include pools and well equipped work-out facilities.

What sets us apart?
Every team member plays a vital role in the success of our family and growth. We are not a conglomerate of hotels brands that make decision on panel of "experts". We make an effort to know all our employees and help them grow through our training program. While we may be one of the largest owner-operators of hotels in North America, we are a family first.

Our Philosophy
At La Quinta, we have a culture by which we are never satisfied. It doesn't matter how well we have done something in the past or how well we may do it today, our goal is to continually improve. Our operating philosophy is very simple:

• Take care of our employees
• Take care of our guests
• Keep the hotels spotlessly clean and well maintained

Everything we do at La Quinta truly revolves around our people, our product and our service.

Benefits
We work just as hard to create a work environment that's equally inviting and with many benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
  
• Vision coverage
  
• Disability
  
• Paid vacation
  
• Discounted hotel stay at all of our locations
  
• Flex Spending account plans
  
• 401K
  

POSITION SUMMARY:

 

Responsible for designing architecture for a specific set of applications within a business domain. Defines system and application architecture and provides vision, problem anticipation, and problem solving ability to organization.  Manager will be expected to support and deliver on changes to their specific applications under their responsibility within the enterprise.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

 
* Manage multiple technology projects involving multiple vendor teams and LQ personnel at all levels.
* Manage existing enterprise systems and vendor development.
* Manage the delivery of change request for systems.
* Lead and direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. 
* Oversee architecture deliverables and review designs for existing system enhancements and new systems.
* Responsible for assigned strategic planning of application technologies.
* Drive vendor projects to be consistently delivered under La Quinta's prescribed methodology process.
* Review design and architecture of vendor software development projects.
* Lead Root Cause Analysis on production software defects and solution or drive necessary remediation of those defects.
* Review Performance and Test Engineering efforts and deliverables for software development projects.
* Support the Quality organization in vendor management of software support SLAs.
* Lead design of software platform enhancements to meet business stakeholder objects or goals.

 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

 

M MINIMUM EDUCATION:
* Bachelor's Degree required in Computer Sciences, Management Information Systems or MBA.

 

M MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
* 3 to 5 years of experience in software development of which at least 2 years should be in managing and leading software and/or database design efforts.
* 3 to 5 years of hospitality industry experience - lodging focus preferred.

 

M MINIMUM SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
* Familiar with various software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Etc.).
* Familiar with lean Six Sigma processes and tools.
* Familiar with UML modeling artifacts and data modeling best practices.
* Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
* Ability to plan and accomplish goals by relying on extensive experience and judgment.
* Expert in multiple disciplines such as project management, technical design, business process design, change management, and test engineering. 
* Has managerial skills needed for providing limited supervision for one or more functions within a department.  Formally plans, assigns, directs, and coordinates the work of these functions.  May perform staff evaluations and make recommendations regarding pay and/or performance.
* Makes recommendations or decisions, which usually affect the assigned unit/division, but may at times affect operations, services, individuals, or activities of others outside of the assigned unit/division.
* Work is broad in scope covering one or more complicated areas.  Policy, procedure, and/or precedent are often created by this position.  A high degree of analytic ability and inductive thinking is required to devise new, non-standard approaches to highly intricate, technically complex problems.
* Makes highly complex decisions; supervision is present to review established departmental and/or divisional objectives.  Independent judgment is required to recommend departmental or divisional objectives, evaluate new approaches to problem solving, and assess changing facts or conditions.
* Responds to and handles unfamiliar situations with little supervisory guidance.
* Has advanced professional skills at the level of a "seasoned" professional.  Requires extensive knowledge of their discipline and a working knowledge of related fields.  Understands information in several unrelated professional disciplines.
* Solves problems that are complex, varied and only mildly related to those seen before.  Simply determining what the problem is requires major individual effort and/or consultation with others within the department.  A high degree of analytical ability and inductive thinking may be required to solve highly intricate, technically complex problems.  Must be able to develop new and nonstandard approaches.
* Completes work that requires developing imaginative and complex methods, procedures, products or systems.  This is an important part of the job and results generally affect several departments within the organization.
* Applies recommends and implements advanced technology concepts to improve the efficie...

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"It's nice working for a company that you can feel proud about.  The hotels are nice and I enjoy working with the people."

Olga Harrison
Front Desk Service Representative - Plano West
6 years on the job

"I really enjoy my job - it's never boring at La Quinta."

Thalia Escalante
Front Desk Service Representative - Plano West
6 months on the job

"At La Quinta, management really cares about you - personally and professionally."
"La Quinta does a great job of training its employees. It's part of the reason I look forward to going to work."

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General Manager - Valdosta, VA
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"La Quinta does an astounding job at bridging the gap between corporate executives and property level employees - other La Quinta team members are a simple call or email away when needed."