Solutions Architect - Privacy Engineering Office

About Booking.com

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

About the team

Booking.com has a vision to make every trip a Connected Trip. As the Solutions Architect for Privacy, you will join the architecture team of the Marketplace business function. Marketplace is responsible for the overall traveller experience and is responsible for defining and driving our product vision.

You will be joining Booking.com at an incredible moment in our history. The Connected Trip strategy is driving significant change to our technology landscape, making the importance of architecture greater than ever before. You will join a team of cross functional technology leaders who support the organisation in defining its strategy and providing architectural guidance to product development teams.

B.Responsible

• Technical Leadership
• Take privacy requirements from the Legal team and turn these into epics that technical teams can deliver.
• Build a picture of the technical landscape of Booking.com as it relates to privacy. Work with system owners across the organisation to understand what customer data is collected, what consent is required, and ensure that we honour this consent.
• Identify which teams need to be involved across the business units to deliver the privacy requirements and ensure that these requirements are in the teams' backlog.
• Educate engineers across booking to understand the "why" behind privacy requirements and ensure that everybody considers privacy when building solutions.
• Support and justify the chosen technical solutions and build a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure feature development and strategy satisfy the business's short- and long-term needs.
• Strategic support of strategic initiatives while continuously communicating privacy goals, learnings, and aspirations
• Seeks and remains open to feedback from direct and indirect stakeholders to continuously improve leadership skills
• Able to influence without having direct authority

B.Skilled

• Problem solver, can identify and analyse complex issues and develop a clear approach to solving them
• Excellent communication skills, can effectively communicate with stakeholders in different roles and levels, clearly communicate strategic vision and big picture but also specific details. Great written and presentation skills
• Expert stakeholder management and influencing skills - Able to bring diverse stakeholders together to agree and move forward with an approach or plan
• Expert analytical skills - Able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues
• Ability to thrive and work in a fast-paced, results driven environment with multiple responsibilities
• Creativity and curiosity - A creative problem solver with a deep curiosity about our customers, business and product
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant technical experience, 5+ years of direct solutions architecture experience
• Experience working on Platforms, E-commerce services, and complex technical environments is a must 
• Experience documenting the current state of systems, and then communicating the desired end state to stakeholders 

B.Offered

• Live and work in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
• Contribute to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and see real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
• Work in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Opportunity to utilise technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

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, colour, 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.