Head of Data & AI Platform Engineering

Booking Holdings, Inc.; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Booking.com is seeking an exceptional technology leader to drive Data from an Engineering perspective within the Connected Trip initiative. You will partner with Data and Product leaders to deliver on our ambition, evolve the Experimentation platform, and lead software engineering related to data, analytics, models, AI, and ingestion.

You will shape governance, architecture, and roadmaps, ensure privacy by design, and build a world-class data engineering function capable of supporting the

Qualifications

• Deep technical leadership in Software Engineering and Data across large-scale systems.
• Experience with Big Data projects and architectures, including data pipelines and modeling.
• Strong understanding of AI technologies used within data ecosystems.
• Working knowledge of cloud data capabilities, especially AWS.
• Experience evolving and operating experimentation platforms (A/B testing, analytics).
• Familiarity with data privacy and security considerations in data segmentation and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape the Data and AI engineering function at scale.
• Partner with Data and Product leaders to advance the Connected Trip strategy.
• Evolve experimentation platforms to next generation capabilities for data-driven decisions.
• Drive DevOps culture and enforce engineering best practices across teams.
• Own architecture and strategic technology roadmaps for data platforms.
• Ensure clear communication of strategy and progress to stakeholders.

Skills

Software Engineering

Data Engineering

Big Data

AI technologies

AWS Cloud

Experimentation platforms

Statistics & experimentation

Data privacy & security

Tools

AWS

ETL tools

Experimentation platforms

Data modeling tools

Job description

Booking.com is seeking an exceptional technology leader to drive Data from an Engineering perspective within the Connected Trip initiative. You will partner with Data and Product leaders to deliver on our ambition, evolve the Experimentation platform, and lead software engineering related to data, analytics, models, AI, and ingestion.

You will shape governance, architecture, and roadmaps, ensure privacy by design, and build a world-class data engineering function capable of supporting the