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Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings Romania - Lead Data Engineer (Data Analytics)

Bucharest

FULL TIME

September 9, 2024

Role Description:Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands. As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and Open Table.

Role Description
As an Engineering Lead for Data&Analytics - Cross-Brand Data Sharing Platform (CBDS), you are responsible for an engineering team and the technology that the team owns. You will not only work as a coach for your team but also as a technical leader, ensuring that the right technical decisions are made when building our data and reporting product(s).
As a data and analytics team, we are responsible for building a cloud-based Data Platform for BHI Global Services and its stakeholders across brands. We aim to provide our end users from different Finance departments, e.g.., Risk, FPA, Tax, Order to Cash from Booking Holding and brands, the best possible platform for all of their Analytics, Reporting & Data needs.
Collaborating closely with a talented team of engineers and product managers, you'll lead the delivery of features that meet the evolving needs of our business on time. You will be responsible to conceptualize, design, build and maintain data services through data platforms for the assigned business units. Together, we'll tackle complex engineering challenges to ensure seamless operations at scale and in (near) real-time.
If you're passionate about owning the end to end solution delivery, thinking for future and driving innovation and thrive in a fast-paced environment, join us in shaping the future of the Data and Analytics team!

Key Job Responsibilities And Duties
Strategy and Project Delivery

Together with the business SMEs and Product Manager, conceptualize, define, shape and deliver the roadmap to achieving the company priority and objectives
Lead business requirement gathering sessions to translate into actionable delivery solutions backlog for the team to build
Lead technical decisions in the process to achieve excellence and contribute to organizational goals.
Lead the D&A teams in planning and scheduling the delivery process, including defining project scope, milestones, risk mitigation and timelines management including allocating tasks to team members and ensuring that the project stays on track.
Have the full responsibility in ensuring successful delivery by the D&A teams to deliver new products on time, set up processes and operational plans from end to end, e.g., collecting user requirement, design, build & test solution and Ops Maintenance
Technical leader with a strategic thinking for the team and the organization. Visionary who can deliver strategic projects and products for the organization.
Own the data engineering processes, architecture across the teams

Technology, Craft & Delivery

Experience in designing and architecting data engineering frameworks, dealing with high volume of data
Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management
Mastery in technology leadership
Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
Participating in defining, shaping and delivering the wider engineering strategic objectives
Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to provide technical coach, support and mentor the team
Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

People Leadership

Directly manage technical scope for data engineers and data analysts with aim to deliver agreed business goals
Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
Drive innovation in the team
Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com and sister brand teams and roles and celebrates unified success
Serves as a proactive leader and problem solver to address complex issues and situations as they arise.

Role Qualifications And Requirements

At least 5 years of experience leading and managing one or multiple teams of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment to deliver complex projects or products on time and with demonstrable positive results;
7+ years experience with data at scale, using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/YARN, My SQL (CDC), Airflow, Snowflake, S3 and Kubernetes
Solid working experience working with Data engineering platforms involving languages like Py Spark, Python or other equivalent scripting languages
Experience working with public cloud providers such as Snowflake, AWS
Experience to work in a complex stakeholders organizations
A deep understanding of software or big data solution development in a team, and a track record of leading an engineering team in developing and shipping data products and solutions.
Strong technical skills (Coding & System design) with ability to get hands-on with your team when needed
Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title
Exceptional and demonstrable leadership capabilities in creating unified and motivated engineering teams

Benefits & Perks

Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

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