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!

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.


Benefits:
Health insurance
Prepaid medical subscription (Regina Maria
Life insurance
Meal vouchers (40 RON/ticket)
Learning wallet
Travel benefit
Annual vacation leave of 25 business days, pro rata with the working period
Birthday day off
Summer break (short Fridays during summer)
Work from Abroad program (up to 20 days/year in EU)
Floating days off
2 Volunteer days/ year
Home office one-time bonus of 400 EUR net
Bookster
Linkedin learning platform
Headspace
Employee discounts (travel, gym, dental, vision)