Data Engineer II

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll join to work alongside curious, energetic, and focused people. You are responsible 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.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• 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.
• Proactively help colleagues grow professionally, taking a significant role in on-boarding and mentoring 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 company guidelines.
• Ensure 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 by prioritising on customer impact and perform root cause analysis to find ways to prevent recurrence.
• Contribute to Booking.com’s growth through interviewing, on-boarding and other recruitment efforts.
• Work in an agile environment and contribute towards your team's ways of working.
• Provide out of hours support on a rota as expected.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Appropriate degree or suitable background and experience in technology.
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and optimising Data Lakes/Warehouses in databases such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in a scripting language like Python or Scala.
• 1+ years of experience in Streaming, using Kafka.
• Experience in Data Modelling.
• Self-motivated to explore new technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, able to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Be a ‘Self Starter’ and highly motivated team player.
• Have a ‘root cause analysis’ mindset to problem and issue resolution, able to break down complex problems and find solutions using logical and analytical thinking.
• Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken.

What We Offer:

• 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.

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.