Senior Data Engineer at Booking Holdings

Short Description:

Booking Holdings in Bangalore, India, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to enhance data excellence and innovation within its global travel and related services organization. The role involves creating a scalable and compliant data platform, replacing ad-hoc solutions with modern foundations, and mentoring junior engineers. Key responsibilities include developing high-quality data pipelines, ensuring data quality, security, and governance, and optimizing performance. The ideal candidate should have a solid background in Big Data Engineering, 10+ years of relevant experience, proficiency in data modeling, and strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Bonus points for experience with various technologies and AWS. This role contributes to Booking.com's growth and operates within an agile environment.

 

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Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) stands as a global leader in online travel and related services, serving customers and partners across 220+ countries and territories through six prominent consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. Our mission at Booking Holdings is to simplify global exploration for everyone. In 2019, the company achieved consolidated revenues of $15.1 billion and net income of $4.9 billion, with a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a distinguished Center of Excellence situated in Bangalore, India, and operates as a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. This Center of Excellence was established to meet the growing business requirements of the Booking Holdings Brands. It offers access to specialized and highly skilled talent, industry best practices, and opportunities for collaboration across all Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Summary:

At Booking.com, data shapes our decision-making process. Technology is at the heart of everything we do, and innovation drives our endeavors. Yet, we are more than just data sets, lines of code, or A/B tests. We are the excitement of discovering a new place on the first night, the anticipation of a new day, the friendships formed, and the journeys embarked upon. Through our products, partnerships, and people, we aim to empower everyone to explore the world.

Data Teams:

Our Data team encompasses responsibilities related to data platforms, management, warehousing, enrichment, and machine learning capabilities. These functions empower teams across our organization to comprehend and enhance our business performance, ultimately improving the customer experience. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in advancing data excellence and innovation within your product team and across the entire organization, shaping Booking.com's data journey.

Platform Team:

The Platform team's primary role is to create, develop, and maintain a robust data platform, along with integrations in and out of it. We are currently embarking on an ambitious modernization program that involves transitioning to the cloud, overhauling data ingestion, enhancing data quality, strengthening security, and enforcing governance. Our ultimate aim is to provide a platform-as-a-service.

Data Enablement Teams:

Working in collaboration with the platform team, our Data Enablement teams ensure data is ingested, transformed, and enriched into secure, high-quality, and well-governed consumption layers. We serve a diverse range of customers, from Finance to Marketing and beyond. These teams are actively involved in our data modernization program, which is set to transform data production, management, and analysis in line with our ambitious goals.

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll join a team of inquisitive, energetic, and dedicated individuals. Your role involves realizing our vision of creating an integrated, scalable, high-performance, and compliant data platform and pipelines. You will play a crucial part in replacing existing ad-hoc data solutions with modern, technology-driven foundations that enable the seamless production of high-quality data for analysis. Collaboration, active participation in team discussions, and mentoring junior engineers are also key aspects of this role.

You Will:

• Contribute to the development of best practices.
• Experiment with new tools and technologies to drive engineering excellence.
• Provide guidance to product teams in selecting technical solutions that meet functional, non-functional, and architectural requirements.
• Coach and guide colleagues and stakeholders to improve their performance by sharing knowledge and experiences.
• Identify opportunities for process, system, and structural improvements, with a focus on enhancing performance.
• Set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and aligning architectural improvements and reframing design decisions.
• Develop scalable, reliable, flexible, high-performance data pipelines and platforms.
• Work with business users to model and implement data pipelines that are performant, scalable, reliable, secure, and well-governed.
• Collaborate with other teams to achieve business objectives.
• Take ownership of data quality in core datasets and pipelines, collaborating with other teams to resolve data quality issues.
• Ensure data quality, security, integrity, and governance by adhering to regulatory requirements, company standards, and best practices.
• Follow defined principles for architecture, quality, and non-functional requirements.
• Foster the professional growth of colleagues and play a significant role in onboarding new team members.
• Continuously improve services for better performance and resource optimization.
• Keep products/services up to date with the latest technology standards and department guidelines.
• Ensure that service level agreements are met through tests and processes.
• Identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and monitor performance metrics for product health.
• Bridge business and product goals with complex technical tasks.
• Prioritize and solve issues based on customer impact.
• Contribute to Booking.com's growth through involvement in recruitment efforts.
• Work within an agile environment and contribute to your team's work processes.
• Provide out-of-hours support on a rotating basis.

What You'll Bring:

We expect our Senior Data Engineers to have a solid foundation in Big Data Engineering, enabling them to create resilient, scalable data pipelines and solutions that support customer analysis and machine learning needs. We're seeking individuals who are proactive, collaborative, goal-oriented, and enjoy problem-solving. Effective communication, attention to detail, and a self-motivated approach are essential attributes. You should have a root cause analysis mindset for problem resolution and a commitment to maintaining data quality, security, and governance.

Requirements:

• A relevant degree or equivalent background and experience in technology.
• 10+ years of experience as a data engineer.
• For Hadoop Data Engineers:
  • 10+ years of experience with Hadoop/Big Data, and tools like Spark, Airflow/Oozie, SQL, and Kafka.
  • 10+ years of software development experience in Python or Scala.
• For SQL Data Engineers:
  • 10+ years of experience in designing, building, and optimizing Data Warehouses in databases like MSSQL (with SSIS), MySQL, or Redshift.
  • 10+ years of software development experience in Python or Scala.
• Proficiency in Data Modeling.
• Self-motivated to explore new technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Self-starter, highly motivated, and a team player.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and find logical solutions.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with Python, Spark, Airflow, Impala, Hive, Snowflake, DBT.
• Experience with Kafka Management.
• Experience with Cloudera or CDP.
• Experience with AWS.
• Intrinsic curiosity in technological innovations and staying updated on the latest trends.

About BKNG:

Booking Holdings is the global leader in online travel and related services. Our teams work tirelessly to build and enhance technology that empowers people to explore the world more freely, transcending borders, time zones, languages, and cultures. We make it easier for everyone to experience the world daily through seamless technology provided by our six major brands:

• Booking.com
• KAYAK
• Priceline
• Agoda
• Rentalcars.com
• OpenTable

Diversity is a key aspect of our success, as we bring together employees from diverse backgrounds to create an inclusive environment that fosters innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

Location: Bangalore, India

Req ID: 29661

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