Engineering Manager Data

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 Trips Business Unit (TBU) At Booking.com we’re working to seamlessly connect every aspect of travel, and the TBU team is one of the cornerstones of our connected trip vision. We’re dedicated to helping travellers uncover the best transport options available to them around the world. To do this we need to offer the broadest selection of bookable transport options, and effortlessly match the right options to the right person at the right time. Our goal is to offer travellers the widest choice and the best customer experience no matter what transport option they choose. About Our 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. Our ideal candidate has an excellent eye for detail, pragmatic approach and an absolute commitment to making sure features are well implemented and bug free. We make all of our decisions based on experiments and testing, so you should be excited by taking a data-led approach to development. If you believe you’re also a passionate advocate for the user, and are looking to work in an agile, collaborative environment then we would like to hear from you! About The Role. We are looking for a superbly enthusiastic and proactive Engineering Manager to head up Data Engineering teams in our Bangalore Development Centre. You will be responsible for the day to day leadership of a team, driving the rapid and robust delivery product and data which helps the business to provide relevant information to our customers on a daily basis and maximise revenue by making informed decisions. You will be part of a self-organising agile team and will be working closely together with your product counterpart in order to deliver value to our customers and help in achieving the wider business goals. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers the business requirements to the highest engineering standards and will be working closely together with other Engineering Managers, Architects and Principal Engineers to improve the tech stack and overall processes and deliver the next generation data platform in the cloud. The role of Engineering Manager is to primarily manage, coach and develop an engineering team, ensuring the development of both (the individual and team as a whole) are in line with organisational objectives and direction. Manage all activities of engineering scope from strategic direction, to design new products and modify existing designs, ensuring that deliverables are on time and with acceptable quality. The role holder is required to analyse technology trends, human resource needs, and market demand to plan projects to ensure resilience in line with current demand and future ambition. In addition to this, the role will confer with leaders, key product stakeholders and other technology teams to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, scalability and time-to-market for new and existing products.