Booking.com

Role Description

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.

The financial Systems team in the FinTech business unit provides technical expertise to the finance department and is responsible for supporting SAP ERP/S4HANA, SAP BI, Native HANA solutions, and many other connected external systems. We want to change the way people work with enterprise systems, by building an application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better integrations and financial insights.

Role Overview

Our brand new FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Shanghai and Bangalore – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

The financial Systems team in the FinTech business unit provides technical expertise to the finance department and is responsible for supporting SAP ERP/S4HANA, SAP BI, Native HANA solutions, and many other connected external systems. We want to change the way people work with enterprise systems, by building an application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better integrations and financial insights. This role is focused on make sure we develop Integration solutions for Booking Financial services and our different Business units and Brands.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Help our team with providing best practices, enterprise architecture standards, and reusable integration patterns.
• Ability to take fast decisions in a very dynamic environment, with some level of uncertainty
• Driving and leading architecture design discussions and actively documenting them.
• Build template solutions on complex integration cases and liaise with our business stakeholders and traduce their business needs into Integration solutions.
• Maintaining and supporting existing integration interfaces.
• Create technical design and actual implementation of solutions.
• Continuously monitor and propose improvements and innovations in our integration landscape
• The quality, reusability and proficiency of all above aspects conforms the KPI’s of this role

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Min 5+ years of experience in the IT industry having 2+ full implementation cycle in integration area.
• Good understanding of concepts such as Mulesoft, EDA, MOA, SOA, SOAP, REST APIs, RESTful, RPC/RFC, event streams such as Kafka and different integration patterns.
• Integration platform experience with Mule 4.x, CloudHub 1.0, (Ideally some experience on CloudHub 2.0, not essential) as well as strong development experience preferable with JAVA/J2EE and build tools like Maven, other integration platform experience, especially event driven integration, SAP CM, CPI is a plus..
• Exposure to a variety of enterprise architectures from a large monolithic architecture to hybrid landscapes consisting of distributed systems and microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience of API led design using RAML/OAS and experience of supporting APIs through the full API lifecycle and system observability is a plus (Graphite, Grafana etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as good communication skills while being organized, flexible, proactive, and result-oriented.

In return, we’ll provide:

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Be part of a truly international fast paced environment and performance driven culture.
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-job opportunities to grow via side projects, hackathons, conferences and your involvement in the community.
• Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits
• Diverse and creative colleagues from every corner of the world
• With over 70 different nationalities within the technology department alone, you will be able to absorb new skills and grow your career in a multicultural environment.

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.