Data Architect - Trips
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 the architecture function of the Trips Business Unit. A team of cross functional technology leaders who together support the organisation in defining its architecture vision.
Role Overview
As the Data Architect for the Trips Business Unit (TBU), you will work with teams and stakeholders to create the data architecture strategy for TBU. You will be responsible for setting best practice, supporting decision making and ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, compliant and fit for the future. It will also be your responsibility to align TBU to broader technical strategy and enterprise architecture.
Depth of technical knowledge is an important aspect of this role. However, the ability to partner with and advise non-technical stakeholders is of equal importance. In this role you will partner with cross-functional colleagues to understand future direction and utilise this in the creation of an architecture vision. You will also advise leadership on key topics, helping them to better understand the technology landscape across the organisation and make well informed decisions on future direction and investments.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Lead the creation and maintenance of the Trips Data Architecture Strategy, working with fellow architects, data engineers and leaders to understand the as-is architecture and to define the target “North Star” data architecture for Trips
Representing “Trips Data” to the wider organisation, participating in enterprise architecture, tech standards, and the data leadership, embedding agreed principles back into the Trips data teams.
Provide leadership and limited line management to data modellers and data engineers ensuring the Trips data assets and critical data elements are fit for purpose, knowing when to be hands-on and when to step back.
Carry out architecture reviews, drive architecture decision records, incorporate non-functional requirements into decision making to ensure the architecture continues to improve in line with the strategy.
Work with data governance, identifying and addressing risks and putting controls in place in a systematic manner without slowing velocity.
Qualifications & Skills:
Strong data modeling and data engineering background comfortable working with transactional data through into analytics and data science.
Experience of working directly with data science and machine learning, understanding of data science workflows and how to ensure data is of the right quality and granularity.
Experience of modern data architectures and big data in the cloud.
Worked extensively in agile environments with a good understanding of how to influence the long term whilst delivering in the short term.
Comfortable in the “architecture elevator”, dealing with engineers through to senior stakeholders.
Strong coach and mentor for data engineers and data modellers.
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:
Let’s go places together:
Your recruiter will be in touch to discuss the hiring process with you and interview stages to expect
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
