Booking Holdings Romania - Lead Data Engineer (Data Analytics)

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands. As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role Description

As an Engineering Lead for Data&Analytics - Cross-Brand Data Sharing Platform (CBDS), you are responsible for an engineering team and the technology that the team owns. You will not only work as a coach for your team but also as a technical leader, ensuring that the right technical decisions are made when building our data and reporting product(s).

As a data and analytics team, we are responsible for building a cloud-based Data Platform for BHI Global Services and its stakeholders across brands. We aim to provide our end users from different Finance departments, e.g.., Risk, FPA, Tax, Order to Cash from Booking Holding and brands, the best possible platform for all of their Analytics, Reporting & Data needs. 

Collaborating closely with a talented team of engineers and product managers, you'll lead the delivery of features that meet the evolving needs of our business on time. You will be responsible to conceptualize, design, build and maintain data services through data platforms for the assigned business units. Together, we'll tackle complex engineering challenges to ensure seamless operations at scale and in (near) real-time.

If you're passionate about owning the end to end solution delivery, thinking for future and driving innovation and thrive in a fast-paced environment, join us in shaping the future of the Data and Analytics team!

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities And Duties

Strategy and Project Delivery

• Together with the business SMEs and Product Manager, conceptualize, define, shape and deliver the roadmap to achieving the company priority and objectives
• Lead business requirement gathering sessions to translate into actionable delivery solutions backlog for the team to build
• Lead technical decisions in the process to achieve excellence and contribute to organizational goals.
• Lead the D&A teams in planning and scheduling the delivery process, including defining project scope, milestones, risk mitigation and timelines management including allocating tasks to team members and ensuring that the project stays on track.
• Have the full responsibility in ensuring successful delivery by the D&A teams to deliver new products on time, set up processes and operational plans from end to end, e.g., collecting user requirement, design, build & test solution and Ops Maintenance
• Technical leader with a strategic thinking for the team and the organization. Visionary who can deliver strategic projects and products for the organization.
• Own the data engineering processes, architecture across the teams

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Experience in designing and architecting data engineering frameworks, dealing with high volume of data
• Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management
• Mastery in technology leadership
• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
• Participating in defining, shaping and delivering the wider engineering strategic objectives
• Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to provide technical coach, support and mentor the team
• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

People Leadership

• Directly manage technical scope for data engineers and data analysts with aim to deliver agreed business goals
• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
• Drive innovation in the team
• Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com and sister brand teams and roles and celebrates unified success
• Serves as a proactive leader and problem solver to address complex issues and situations as they arise.

Role Qualifications And Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience leading and managing one or multiple teams of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment to deliver complex projects or products on time and with demonstrable positive results; 
• 7+ years experience with data at scale, using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/YARN, MySQL (CDC), Airflow, Snowflake, S3 and Kubernetes
• Solid working experience working with Data engineering platforms involving languages like PySpark, Python or other equivalent scripting languages 
• Experience working with public cloud providers such as Snowflake, AWS
• Experience to work in a complex stakeholders organizations
• A deep understanding of software or big data solution development in a team, and a track record of leading an engineering team in developing and shipping data products and solutions.
• Strong technical skills (Coding & System design) with ability to get hands-on with your team when needed
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision
• You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title
• Exceptional and demonstrable leadership capabilities in creating unified and motivated engineering teams

Benefits & Perk s

• 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
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings 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, color, 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.

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.