Data Engineer II

Requirements:

• Appropriate degree or suitable background and experience in technology
• 3+ years of experience of designing, building, and optimizing 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 Modeling
• 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

What You'll Be Doing:

• Iteratively develop next-generation scalable, reliable, flexible, high-performance data pipeline capabilities and data platforms
• Use standardized 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
• 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 utilizing resources in the most optimized 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 optimize 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 prioritizing; 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

Perks and Benefits:

• 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