Role Description:
standards are applied and leverage is created through extensibility and reuse.
You'll balance the needs of operating our on-premise infrastructure while simultaneously transitioning towards modernized, cloud-based pipelines using a data lake and warehouse using containerized compute and cloud-based storage. You're surrounded by a high density of data engineers and data managers, relative to most teams at Booking. Together, you'll work on projects with (backend) engineering teams eager to get your support in building consumer-focused pipelines as well as senior stakeholders to challenge and revolutionize the functional use of our data underpinned by strong data management and governance.
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
Create processes for developing data models, in line with data governance requirements, that can be operationalised within the company’s workflows and infrastructure to ensure data solutions meet business requirements
Map data flows between systems and workflows within your team;s scope to drive efficiency and ensure proper controls
Support segmentation of your teams data assets into sustainable and business-enabling domains by applying domain-driven design and enterprise architecture best practices (e.g. TOGAF)
Enable implementation of scalable tooling for data flow automation and controls to manage the entire data life-cycle
Manage the building of extensible data pipelines spanning different data encodings to support varied business requirements
Manage implementation of efficient data ingestion solutions, batch processing, and event-based streams to enable real-time actions and rapid business decisions
Monitor and adjust relevant SLIs and SLOs to take ownership of data solutions end-to-end and account for competing priorities across your team
Ensure proper definition of quality requirements for data domains and data assets, based on standards for all data quality dimensions, to ensure design of high-quality data solutions
Develop approaches for monitoring, failure detection, and data availability across your teams to ensure data timeliness and completeness
Drive high quality data through use of data quality monitoring and issue remediation through Business Analysts and Data managers.
Create robust ways of working, capacity planning and delivery within the team through use of ASANA and other practices such as Agile.
Responsible for team delivery on wider projects where the People Data Management team are workstream leads through stand-ups, feature planning and sprint reviews.
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 Requirements:
Experience leading and managing a team of data analysts/managers in a fast-paced and complex environment
Intermediate knowledge of data modelling methods (Relational, Dimensional)
Intermediate knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, e.g. TOGAF
Intermediate knowledge of IT governance frameworks, e.g. COBIT 5
Intermediate knowledge of streaming data / pipeline tooling such as Apache airflow, Kafka
Strong knowledge of data quality requirements and implementation methodologies
Strong knowledge of Data Management requirements based on best practices, e.g. DAMA-DMBOK
Intermediate knowledge of one or more database querying languages or scripting tools, e.g. SQL, VBA, Pandas, R, Python
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
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:
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
Pre-Employment Screening
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