Manager Data Engineering - DMLP

Booking.com’s mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. To achieve this mission we are opening up new career opportunities to help us shape the future of travel. We believe that our human desire to explore the planet's beauty and discover more about other people and cultures will endure.

The world is waiting for us. Together, we will be ready.

Role Description: 

As a Manager Data Engineering, you are responsible for an engineering team and the technology that the team owns. You will work as a coach for your people and as a technical leader, ensuring that the right technical decisions are made when building our product.

In the Data and Machine Learning Platform department, we're responsible for Booking's governed and cloud-based Data Lake and Data Warehouse. Our mission is to provide the Data Engineering community at Booking, consisting of Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and ML practitioners, the best possible platform for all of their Analytics and Machine Learning needs. 

Within the department, the Data Production team plays a pivotal role in enabling Booking's business teams to harness the full potential of their data. We maintain the Customer Data Platform, empowering business teams to gather vital insights about our customers in a secure and compliant way. We are also responsible for the Data Pipeline Platform, which manages the lifecycle and observability of Data Ingestion Pipelines.

Collaborating closely with a talented team of engineers and product managers, you'll drive the delivery of features that meet the evolving needs of our business. Together, we'll tackle complex engineering challenges to ensure seamless operations at scale and in real-time.

If you're passionate about driving innovation and thrive in a fast-paced environment, join us in shaping the future of Data Engineering at Booking!

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: 

People Leadership

• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team including delivery management
• Get into the technical detail where required to coach, support and mentor the team
• Adhere to the default principles for Architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations and proactive work such as premortems
• Design efficient dataflows in complex systems
• Learn new technologies and stay ahead of existing technologies and be able to share learning’s and apply these to a variety of projects as applicable
• Have a deep knowledge of data engineering, architecture and integration.
• Establish opportunities for insight and observability in systems
• Actively contribute to Data Engineering at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing, onboarding and mentoring colleagues

Architecture & Product Strategy

• Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap
• Build new products, processes and operational plans
• Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
• Drive innovation in own team
• Own the architecture across own team

 Role Qualifications and Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment
• Experience in a data organization, and understand the processes and technologies required in order to server near-real time data and insights at scale
• Experience with data at scale, using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, MySQL (CDC), Airflow, S3, and Kubernetes
• Bonus points for experience with Snowflake, DBT and development on and migrations to cloud platform AWS
• Passionate about (customer) data, data pipelines, data governance and data privacy
• Strong technical skills (Coding & System design), you can get hands-on with your team if needed
• Proficient in Java (preferred), Python, Scala, C++ or Go (bonus points for Perl)
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, agile practices, and dev-ops principles
• Strong people management skills and experience with the ability to deal with complex people issues
• Strong stakeholder management experience, strong business and technical vision
• Solution oriented and result driven, analytical skills and data-driven mindset
• Proven experience driving successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience influencing and cooperating with people at all levels
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent

What we offer:

Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. Our Total Rewards strive to make it easier for you to experience all that life has to offer on your terms so that you can focus on what really matters. We offer competitive compensation as well as thoughtful, valuable, and even fun benefits which include:

• Headquarters located in one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in Europe: Amsterdam.
• Contribute to a high scale, sophisticated, world-class product and see the real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide.
• Be part of a truly international fast paced environment and performance driven culture.
• Full relocation support for you and your family to move to Amsterdam. We have fine-tuned this process by successfully relocating over 300 Technology professionals to Amsterdam in the last year alone!
• Performance-based company that offers 29 vacation days, career advancement, and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential.
• Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits.
• Company-sponsored family and social activities to help our employees become integrated with each other and Dutch culture.
• Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world.
• Health, life, and disability insurance*
• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave.
• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country).
• Industry leading product discounts for yourself, friends, and family, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and quarterly Booking.com wallet credit.
• Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs, and a complimentary Headspace membership
• On-site meals, coffee, and snacks, including healthy and vegan options, daily*

#ThinkInclusion: Wellbeing & Inclusion at Booking.com:

Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Wellbeing and Volunteering (IDBWV) have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just create a unique workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.”

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustment to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Booking.com 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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