Manager Data Management

Job Description:

About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than 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 encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Role Description:
The Data Management Manager leads a team of data managers, data engineers and Business Analysts entrusted with managing one of our most business-critical assets - our data. Combining technical knowledge and people leadership skills, they drive how your team members develop and implement processes and technology solutions for production and consumption of data at scale, offline, and in real-time, following data governance requirements and development standards. They are mentors to their team on technical
elements of the data management & engineering craft, and on how to best apply them in our evolving business objectives and technology landscape. With your team working on several product development or strategic insights efforts, you maintain a horizontal view across their work to ensure consistent
standards are applied and leverage is created through extensibility and reuse.

Our mission is to create a competitive advantage throughout Booking.com using our data. One of the foundational tasks to deliver this is to enable our company to build reliable, well-governed and modern data pipelines transporting our HR Data so we continue to understand one of our biggest assets, our People.

You'll balance the needs of operating our on-premise infrastructure while simultaneously transitioning towards modernized, cloud-based pipelines using a data lake and warehouse using containerized compute and cloud-based storage. You're surrounded by a high density of data engineers and data managers, relative to most teams at Booking. Together, you'll work on projects with (backend) engineering teams eager to get your support in building consumer-focused pipelines as well as senior stakeholders to challenge and revolutionize the functional use of our data underpinned by strong data management and governance.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

People Leadership
* Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
* Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team
* Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success
Technology, Craft & Delivery
* Create processes for developing data models, in line with data governance requirements, that can be operationalised within the company's workflows and infrastructure to ensure data solutions meet business requirements
* Map data flows between systems and workflows within your team;s scope to drive efficiency and ensure proper controls
* Support segmentation of your teams data assets into sustainable and business-enabling domains by applying domain-driven design and enterprise architecture best practices (e.g. TOGAF)
* Enable implementation of scalable tooling for data flow automation and controls to manage the entire data life-cycle
* Manage the building of extensible data pipelines spanning different data encodings to support varied business requirements
* Manage implementation of efficient data ingestion solutions, batch processing, and event-based streams to enable real-time actions and rapid business decisions
* Monitor and adjust relevant SLIs and SLOs to take ownership of data solutions end-to-end and account for competing priorities across your team
* Ensure proper definition of quality requirements for data domains and data assets, based on standards for all data quality dimensions, to ensure design of high-quality data solutions
* Develop approaches for monitoring, failure detection, and data availability across your teams to ensure data timeliness and completeness
* Drive high quality data through use of data quality monitoring and issue remediation through Business Analysts and Data managers.
* Create robust ways of working, capacity planning and delivery within the team through use of ASANA and other practices such as Agile.
* Responsible for team delivery on wider projects where the People Data Management team are workstream leads through stand-ups, feature planning and sprint reviews.
Architecture & Product Strategy
* Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap
* Build new products, processes and operational plans
* Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
* Drive innovation in own team
* Own the architecture across own team

Role Requirements:
* Experience leading and managing a team of data analysts/managers in a fast-paced and complex environment
* Intermediate knowledge of data modelling methods (Relational, Dimensional)
* Intermediate knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, e.g. TOGAF
* Intermediate knowledge of IT governance frameworks, e.g. COBIT 5
* Intermediate knowledge of streaming data / pipeline tooling such as Apache airflow, Kafka
* Strong knowledge of data quality requirements and implementation methodologies
* Strong knowledge of Data Management requirements based on best practices, e.g. DAMA-DMBOK
* Intermediate knowledge of one or more database querying languages or scripting tools, e.g. SQL, VBA, Pandas, R, Python
* Solution oriented and result driven, analytical skills and data-driven mindset
* Proven experience driving successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality
* Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience influencing and cooperating with people at all levels
Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:
Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
* Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
* Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
* Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Booking.com:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.
Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."
We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process:
* Let's go places together: How we Hire
* This role does not come with relocation assistance.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening

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