Data Engineer

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center 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 the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Summary

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core and innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than just datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journey you take. The sights you see and the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

Data Teams

The Data team's responsibilities include data platforms, management, warehousing, enrichment and machine learning functionality, enabling teams across the organisation to understand and manage our business performance and improve the experience of our customers. You will be responsible for delivering products that advance data excellence and innovation within your product team, and across the business, helping us shape Booking.com’s data journey.

Platform Team

The Platform team is responsible for creating , developing and maintaining a robust data platform and integrations in/out of it. In conjunction with our colleagues across Booking.com, the team is embarking on an ambitious modernisation programme focusing not just on infrastructure transition to the cloud but a complete overhaul of data ingestion, quality, security and governance. Providing a platform as a service is our goal.

Data Enablement Teams

Using the ecosystem our platform team have created, our Data Enablement teams work closely with teams across the business to ensure that data is ingested, transformed and enriched into secure, high quality, well governed consumption layers. Our customers are anyone from Finance to Marketing and everyone in between. Again all these teams are engaged in our data modernisation programme which will transform how data is produced, managed, and analysed to make great decisions that grow our business inline with our ambitious goals.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Data Engineer, you’ll join to work alongside curious, energetic, and focused people. You will share responsibility for delivering our vision to create a fully integrated, scalable, high performance and compliant data platform and pipelines. You’ll help roadmap and deliver replacements for the current ad-hoc data solutions with strong foundations built on modern technologies and practices that will make it easy to produce large quantities of high quality data for consumption and analysis. We expect you to actively contribute to team discussion with questions, have and share opinions and align behind decisions when made as if they were your own.

Senior team members will support your career development so you will be able to fulfil the expectations of Data Engineering outlined below.

You Will

• Iteratively develop next-generation scalable, reliable, flexible, high-performance data pipeline capabilities and data platforms.
• Use standardised tooling and procedures to work with business users to model and implement data pipelines which are performant, scalable, reliable, secure, well governed with required observability.
• Engage with other teams as needed to achieve business objectives.
• End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines. Engage with other teams to help them identify and resolve data quality issues.
• Be responsible for maintaining data quality, security, integrity and governance by effectively following regulatory requirements, company standards, and best practices
• Adhere to the defined principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements.
• Identify, foster, and proactively help colleagues grow professionally, taking a significant role in on-boarding new team members.
• Continuously improve services you own, making them more performant, and utilising resources in the most optimised way.
• Ensure that products / services are always kept up to date with the latest technology standards and department guidelines.
• Ensuring that service level agreements are met by implementing tests and processes.
• Perform profiling to find bottlenecks and optimise performance, and ensure that performance metrics are set up and monitored for product health.
• Be able to connect business and product goals to complex technical tasks.
• Solve issues prioritising based on customer impact.
• Contribute to Booking.com’s growth through interviewing, on-boarding and other recruitment efforts.
• Be working in an agile environment and expect to contribute towards your team's ways of working.
• Be expected to provide out of hours support on a rota.

What You'll Bring

We expect our Data Engineers to have a strong foundation in Big Data Engineering to help them deliver resilient, scalable data pipelines and solutions that support our customers analysis and machine learning needs.

We are looking for driven Data Engineers who enjoy solving problems, are proactive, collaborative and goal orientated. Who are communicative and believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset, collaboration and tools.

Requirements

• Appropriate degree or suitable background and experience in technology.
• 3+ years of experience as a data engineer.
• Hadoop Data Engineer Craft (DE-SW):
• 3+ years of experience with Hadoop/Big Data, and tooling such as Spark, Airflow/Oozie, SQL, and Kafka.
• 3+ years experience of software development in a language such as Python or Scala.
• SQL Data Engineer Craft (DE-SQL):
• 3+ years of experience of designing, building, and optimising Data Warehouses in databases such as MSSQL (with SSIS), MySQL or Redshift etc
• 1+ years of experience in a scripting language like Python or Scala.
• Experience in Data Modelling
• Self motivated to explore new technologies.
• Excellent degree of communication skills - being able to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Self Starter, highly motivated, team player.
• Have a ‘root cause analysis’ mindset to problem and issue resolution. Is able to break down complex problems and find solutions by using logical and analytical thinking.
• Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Python, Spark, Airflow, Impala, Hive, Snowflake, DBT.
• Experience with Kafka Management.
• Experience with Cloudera or CDP.
• Experience with AWS.
• You have an intrinsic curiosity in technological innovations and you are always on top of the latest trends.

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

• Booking.com
• KAYAK
• priceline
• agoda
• Rentalcars.com
• OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

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