About Booking.com
Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch start-up to one of the largest ecommerce companies in the world. Booking.com is the largest business within Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and accounts for the vast majority of Booking Holdings’ total revenue. Booking Holdings is a leading Fortune 500 e-commerce conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $119.69 billion (2023). Booking.com currently employs approximately 13,000 employees in 140 offices in 70 countries worldwide.
With a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. Booking.com connects travelers with the world’s largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts and even tree houses. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in over 44 languages, offer more than 28M total reported listings, and cover over 174,000 destinations in 229 countries worldwide. Offering 30 different types of places to stay, including homes, apartments, B&Bs, hostels, farm stays, bungalows, even boats, igloos, and treehouses. So whether travelling for business or leisure, customers can instantly book their ideal accommodation quickly and easily, without booking fees and backed up by its promise to price match. Via the customer experience team, customers can reach Booking.com 24/7 for assistance and support in over 44 languages, any time of the day or night.
At Booking.com, we are all involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. The decisions we make are a reflection of our Values - they reflect what is important to us, both as individuals and as an organisation.
Think customer first. We obsess about adding value for our customers - guests, partners, colleagues - to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Own it. We deliver on our promises, make informed decisions and prioritize to get the important things done today.
Learn forever. We are resilient, take time to reflect, and seek to learn – from colleagues, from the outside world and from our failures.
Succeed together. We celebrate team success, through making connections, building trust and valuing the diverse perspectives of others.
Do the right thing. We get the right results the right way. For each other, our communities and the world around us.
Senior Enterprise Architect
Enterprise architects will spearhead creating, communicating, and implementing the organization's architectural vision and strategy across business, data, application, and technology domains.
They'll ensure alignment with the company's objectives and Tech Guiding Principles, lead architectural governance and compliance efforts, and drive the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.
This role involves close collaboration with stakeholders to ensure architectural solutions meet business needs and are scalable, secure, and efficient, fostering innovation and maintaining a competitive edge through technological advancement.
Responsibilities:
- Architectural Vision and Strategy Development: Formulate and communicate the overarching architectural vision and strategy, aligning with business objectives and Tech Guiding Principles.
- Cross-Domain Architecture Design: Design and implement architectures across business, data, application, and technology domains.
- Governance and Compliance: Lead governance processes to ensure architectural compliance and alignment with standards.
- Technology Evaluation and Adoption: Spearhead the evaluation of emerging technologies and manage their adoption within the organization.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to ensure architectural solutions meet business and technological needs.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring robust, secure solutions.
- Innovation Leadership: Drive innovation within the architectural domain, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technological advancement.
- Community Building: Promote and facilitate a strong community of practice among architects, encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Technical Leadership: Coaching and mentoring top tech talent across Booking.com.
Ideal Experience & Skills:
- Significant knowledge and experience in Software, Solution and Enterprise architecture, while being able to perform at and engage with (Sr) Director/(S)VP level stakeholders.
- Experience operating large, Internet scale applications and distributed systems spanning multiple languages, platforms, front and back end services, networks and public cloud platforms.
- Ability to communicate and sell the technology strategy and vision across the business.
- Deep business acumen and technical expertise.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and thought partnership across engineering and product.
- Highly proficient in domain based technology strategies and in platform architecture patterns.
- Strong understanding of digital technology space including mobile, web and distribution stacks.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies and emerging technologies including AI.
- Strong understanding of NFRs and building resilience.
- Ability to lead and coach others in modeling solution architectures.
- Ability to lead and influence others without authority.
OTHER PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Character traits: open mind, learning attitude, transparent behavior, positive, overachiever, strong communicator, proactive and collaborative.
- Strategic thinker yet focused on execution; able to roll up sleeves to get things done.
- Able to function in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment.
- Data driven, experimental, ready to learn and open to change.
- Keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.
- Good cultural and organizational sensitivity.
- Committed to building a diverse, inclusive work environment.