Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines;
Solving issues with data and data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact, and building solutions that prevent them from happening again (root cause);
End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines;
Experimenting with new tools and technologies to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data quality;
Providing tools that enhance Data Quality company wide;
Developing integrations between multiple applications and services, both on premise and in the cloud;
Contributing to self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with relevant expertise;
Building effective monitoring of data, and jumping in to handle outages.
Responsible for technical implementation and maintenance of data processing services and storage systems in line with the Data Governance Framework.
Lead root cause investigations, incident response, and postmortem documentation for reliability and process improvement.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor degree or equivalent
- 1 - 3 years experience in similar role
Software Systems Design
Evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
Describe the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
Help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standards
Meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
Critical Thinking
Find solutions to difficult or complex issues by applying different skills and techniques like analytical thinking, lateral thinking, and logical reasoning
Constructively improve existing ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements and articulating their rationale
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
Identify opportunities for process, system and/or structural improvements, by applying an understanding of process flows and the methods that can be used to boost effectiveness and efficiency
End to End System Ownership
Own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
Reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs
Reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
Independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production
Effective Communication
Deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
Achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
Ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection techniques
Technical Stack Qualifications
1-3 years of experience with data at scale, using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/YARN, MySQL, Airflow, Snowflake, S3 and Kubernetes
Solid working experience working with Data engineering platforms involving PySpark, Python or other equivalent scripting languages
Proven experience building data pipeline solutions based on public cloud providers such as Snowflake, AWS
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
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 - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Application Process:
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Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
