At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, and lines of code. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place, the excitement of the next morning, the friends you make, the journeys you take, the sights you see, and the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.
FinTech is a complex, competitive and exciting industry. To accomplish Booking.com's mission ("making it easier for everyone to experience the world"), we aim to offer frictionless payment experiences to our guests and partners. The FinTech business unit creates best in class payment products that offer choice to guests and help Bookings business partners grow their business.
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The Financial Systems team, in the FinTech business unit, provides technical expertise to enterprise functions (like Finance) and is responsible for supporting and innovating SAP ERP/S4HANA, SAP BI, Native HANA solutions, and many other connected external systems and homegrown applications. We want to change the way people work with enterprise systems, by building an application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better integrations and financial insights.
You, as a Financial Systems Senior Solution Architect, is responsible for the financial core systems supporting the different Booking Brands. This requires balancing the solidity expected of a finance backend with the flexibility to create innovative products for bookers and partners. You bring expert knowledge, experience and strong communication skills. You work closely with the different development teams to make this a reality and are part of the architecture team designing the future of FS.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Strategize
- Shape the architectural vision, strategy & roadmap across all domains in the Financial Systems business unit area, across multiple tracks
- Develop SAP and homegrown applications architecture strategy in alignment with the business goals
- Manages Financial Systems architecture governance: develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise
- Review business drivers and strategies, understand the implications to the Financial Systems as well as across Fintech applications architecture, and identify/mitigate risks to solutions
- Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and development teams; associating the implication of the architecture decisions to objectives, drivers and goals
- Accountable for the implementation of SAP and homegrown applications architecture roadmap for designated product tracks
Innovate
- Collect research on the competition in terms of best practices, business processes and procedures
- Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
- Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
- Partners with associates to build a comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future
- Apply company and tech community best practices while solving issues and designing new systems
- Able to enhance existing patterns to make it perfectly fit to our context and define new best practices for the company
Architect
- Demonstrate a high level of SAP S4 technical expertise on various domains (O2C/Payments; R2R, Treasury, Tax, MDM, BI) that brings inspiration and influence to the FS architecture craft, identifying opportunities to reduce complexity and coupling
- Able to design large scale architecture that affect the whole Financial Systems tracks, acting as a role model of coaching & mentoring for Architects across the FS architecture community as potentially, across different departments in the company
- Analyze the current IT ecosystem SAP and homegrown applications architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements across multiple tracks. Link and prioritized different improvements to ensure maximum results
- Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future architecture
- Analyze high-level feasibility of business requirements concerning Financial Systems solutions
- Define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of Financial Systems ecosystem and oversee the evolution of that architecture
- Develop and maintain IT ecosystem SAP and homegrown applications architecture models, processes and documentation
Deliver
- Has sufficient knowledge to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the Financial Systems scope
- Responsible for advising product teams towards a technical or business solution that meets the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape, also guiding other craft members of the team in this topic
- Responsible to systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking
Qualifications & Skills
- Level of Education: Master degree
- 10+ years of relevant working experience designing and architecting SAP Finance and Finance homegrown solutions
- Knowledge of SAP best practices and Implementation Methodology
- Proven proficiency in SAP Finance Accounting, Controlling, O2C/Payments, Treasury, Tax, MDM and BI
- Good understanding of integration points across SAP Modules
- S/4HANA Implementation experience is a must-have
- Experience in finance audits and SOX is preferable
- Responsible for constructively evaluating and developing ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART' improvements and articulating their rationale, in a clear, well-structured, and meaningful way to a target audience. Guide other craft members of the team in this topic
- Mastery in: Storytelling, Diagraming, Domain based systems design, Software Architecture Patterns, Architecture Design Records, Target Architecture design
Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance
Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
- 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
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;
- Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture;
- Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
- Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Booking.com:
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.
Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."
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