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Director of Software Engineering, Data - Marketplace

Responsibilities:

You will be:

  • Developing deep partnership with Senior Technology, Data and Product leadership mapping out our long term technology vision, strategy and roadmap to ensure capabilities within the BU are fit for the future and have a clear evolution path
  • Defining and developing the operating model for their team that is linked clearly to, and delivers against, the strategic objectives of their BU and Booking.com
  • Developing a sustainable, high performance organization
  • Leading, inspiring and motivating a team, setting clear expectations around what success looks like, giving ownership and providing clarity when necessary
  • Ensuring that future technology investments and capabilities are widely socialized, understood, prioritized and aligned so that they are built effectively into medium to long term planning horizons
  • Communicate strategy in a compelling manner to multiple teams and stakeholders
  • Create a learning environment by coaching, maintaining two-way feedback, helping people extract & share personal learnings, and supporting teams to constantly adapt
  • Foster the engineering culture; innovate, work as a team and celebrate success
  • Build a world class team through nurturing, attracting, and retaining tech talent from around the world
  • Lead, influence and own delivery within your function including department goals
  • Maintain focus on the end goal, minimise risk and remove roadblocks for our strategic agenda
  • Foster mastery in engineering craftsmanship across Booking.com including shaping ways of working
  • Own Technology-wide topics and help lead and grow the department
  • Identify problems and significantly improve, change or adapt existing methods and techniques drawing from personal experiences and feedback
  • Shape, define and build new services, processes and operational plans in alignment with the commercial and financial needs of the business
  • Make decisions in complex and ambiguous situations, and guide others in their decision making by recognizing and challenging assumptions, introducing relevant data and multiple perspectives
  • Ensure that the Booking architecture principles and engineering practices are adhered to, and that there is direction and alignment for each product 
  • Anticipate the need for changes based on context, and set renewed courses of action to engage teams and achieve goals, while striving to make the impact clear and understandable

    • Ideal Experience & Skills: 

    You have:

  • Deep technical experience related in Software Engineering and Data
  • Experience with Big Data systems and projects
  • Experience with Data ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Load), data architecture, schema design, and data modeling
  • Experience of AI technologies and use within the data ecosystem
  • Working knowledge of cloud based data capabilities on AWS
  • Experience with Experimentation platforms in order to evolve the platform to the next-generation of A/B testing platforms that empowers Booking.com to make data-driven decisions for its products and services
  • Good understanding of statistical methods needed for experimentation, measurement and in a highly scaled and compute intensive framework in order to continue to grow our platforms including audience split testing, power measures, integrating forward looking measures like future expected value.
  • Experience in data privacy and data security related topics specifically to ensure that privacy requirements are factored into segmentation, intent modeling by design
  • Tech leadership experience with demonstrated success of building, shaping and leading a cross functional Engineering function
  • Industry experience at fast moving, innovative global technology companies
  • Experience operating large, Internet scale applications and distributed systems spanning multiple languages, platforms, front and back end services, networks and public cloud platforms (AWS)
  • Deep understanding of technology, with a proven track record of designing and building platforms at scale
  • Highly familiar with the topology of their environment and all of their systems
  • Proven ability to contribute to system design, architecture, and problem solving conversations. Ability to get deep into technical details when needed. 
  • Able to provide technical direction to the teams (driving tech strategy, making build vs. buy decisions, prioritising etc.) 
  • Great collaboration on technology topics; the successful candidate should be able to spar with their counterparts in other organisations, including Senior Architects and Fellows. 
  • Demonstrable experience of working in Agile environments and more importantly an Agile culture and ethos 
  • Demonstrable experience of setting, leading and influencing both the Engineering and Business strategy to the medium and long-term 
  • Experience with managing and coaching teams of senior tech leaders including building and growing teams
  • Well versed in Engineering Craftsmanship 
  • Building a DevOps culture

    • Other personal characteristics 

  • Character traits: open mind, learning attitude, transparent behavior, positive, overachiever, strong communicator, proactive and collaborative
  • Strategic thinker yet focused on execution; able to roll up sleeves to get things done
  • Able to function in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment
  • Data driven, experimental, ready to learn and open to change
  • Keep the customer at the center of everything you do
  • Good cultural and organizational sensitivity
  • Committed to building a diverse, inclusive work environment

    • 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.

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    Director of Software Engineering, Data - Marketplace

    Bedrijf:
    Booking.com
    Gemeente:
    Amsterdam
    Contracttype: 
    Vast contract, Voltijds
    Categorieën: 
    Software Engineering, Software Engineer
    Carriereniveau: 
    Director
    Gepubliceerd:
    02.05.2024
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