Engineering Manager - Data Lineage Team
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Job description
The Data Lineage team aims to map all data flows and describe all data within Booking in support of the company's objective of maximizing the business value of data, while treating data respectfully and minimizing associated risks.
The team works closely together with a large number of teams in the Data, ML, and AI space to capture lineage information, to bring it together in its central repository, and to make it accessible to everyone at the company.
The long-term vision for the team is that the lineage graph grows into a Knowledge Graph that connects lineage data to business concepts and regulatory concepts, thereby enabling data-driven decision making, optimizing operational efficiency, and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, ultimately maximizing business value and minimizing compliance risks., People Leadership
- Directly manage engineers
- 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, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.com teams and roles, and celebrates unified success
- Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work
Technology, Craft & Delivery
- Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic
- Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management
- Mastery in technology leadership
- Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
- Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives
- Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
- Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
- Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
- Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed
Architecture & Product Strategy
- 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 the team
- Own the architecture across the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant job experience in software development.
- 2+ years of relevant job experience as an engineering manager.
- Big Data experience (batch and streaming data processing, data lake, data warehouse) is preferred.
- Experience with Knowledge Engineering, in particular Knowledge Representation, is a plus.
