Data Engineer, Booking.com

• Appropriate degree or suitable background and experience in technology
• 3+ years of experience of designing, building, and optimising Data Warehouses in databases such as MSSQL (with SSIS), MySQL or Redshift etc
• 1+ years of experience in a scripting language like Python or Scala
• Experience in Data Modelling
• Self motivated to explore new technologies
• Excellent communication skills - being 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. Is able to break down complex problems and find solutions by using logical and analytical thinking
• Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken

Desirable

• 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
• 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
• Ensuring 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
• Be working in an agile environment and expect to contribute towards your team's ways of working
• Be expected to provide out of hours support on a rota