Technical Program Manager

We are looking for sharp, talented and energetic Technical Program Managers. As a FinTech TPM, you have the ability to deliver large cross-organisational software development projects at the intersection of e-commerce and payments. Building financial services is not easy, but you know what it takes to pull it off.

What you’ll be doing:

• Interact with project sponsors, project stakeholders to define and deliver projects
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
• Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner
• Insatiable curiosity and ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
• Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches and numerous constraints
• Be the driving force that collaborates with business and technical teams across Booking to make sure your teams deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible - all the while maintaining a strong customer focus.

What you’ll bring:

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience, including technical program management experience
• The role requires experience working on payments or FinTech products, and a strong understanding of the requirements of this domain.
• Experience in launching e-commerce products to the market.
• Knowledge of the following is required: service-oriented architecture, product development, agile project management, release schedules.
• Experience in Owning the delivery of technical solutions to business problems as cross-team initiatives
• Experience in cross organization priority alignment to deliver program outcomes
• Experience in ensuring a realistic and objective delivery plan, based on end to end technical solution, is in place, which is based on data and appropriate delivery metrics
• Experience in visualising and managing Risks, Issues & Dependencies to enable delivery success
• Experience in ensuring effective communication + stakeholder management is in place
• Experience in owning + driving appropriate common delivery governance across organization with diverse delivery practices and organization culture
• Experience in ensuring effective delivery best practice is in place which aligns to agile delivery principles.
• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field

We offer:

This role is open to candidates worldwide. We provide assistance for you and your family (if applicable) with a generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Amsterdam.

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• We aim to empower you to do your best work, whether in the office or at home, as well as 20 days per year to work from abroad with our Work from Abroad benefit* (subject to terms and conditions)
• 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-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)
• Parental Leave: From day one of your employment with us, we offer 22 weeks’ fully paid leave for all new parents, regardless of gender or the way you become a parent
• Care Leave: 10 days’ fully paid leave per year for colleagues who are caring for ill family members.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com