Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
- Drive architectural excellence by playing a key role in the FinTech Architecture Review Board, ensuring solutions meet our high standards for quality, security, and scalability.
- Guide and support engineering teams in designing and delivering feasible solutions that meet project deadlines while advancing our long-term architectural vision.
- Bridge theory and practice by continuously validating architectural designs against real-world implementation, using feedback to refine our strategies and standards.
- Champion architectural best practices by developing reusable patterns, creating technical documentation, and leading knowledge-sharing sessions across the organization.
- Simplify our technology landscape by actively identifying and reducing architectural complexity and unnecessary coupling between systems.
- Shape our technical strategy by establishing and maintaining the FinTech Product's Tech Radar, evaluating emerging technologies to drive innovation and guide investment.
- Foster strong stakeholder relationships by managing communications effectively to ensure strategic alignment, proactively identify risks, and build consensus.
4+ years of relevant job experience in an architecture role
Architectural Design: Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, resilient, and secure software architectures, ideally within a FinTech or e-commerce environment.
Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including knowledge of their core services and architectural best practices
Modern Methodologies: Demonstrated experience with software design methodologies like Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and facilitating collaborative workshops such as Event Storming.
Stakeholder Management: Expertise in translating complex stakeholder needs and business requirements into clear technical specifications and actionable architectural designs.
Communication & Influence: Solid communication skills with professional fluency in English (written and spoken), capable of documenting and presenting complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic mindset, enabling you to contribute directly to the business unit's technology vision and strategy
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
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;
Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)
Application Process:
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This role does not come with relocation assistance
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