Architect - FinTech

at  Bookingcom

Role Description:
About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• Experience gathering stakeholder requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed.
• Fluent in speaking and writing in English
• Great analytical and soft skills being able to listen, document and present
• Being able to design large scale architecture that affect the whole business unit and participate in defining the business unit strategy
• Ability to enhance existing patterns to make it perfectly fit to our context and define new best
• Experience with Public Cloud vendors (AWS,GCP,Azure)
• Experience with DDD and Event Storming workshops
• Experience executing Architecture Role outside of Booking.com

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

The role of an Architect is about providing insights and efficiency to the teams, helping them navigate the complexity of the organization and ensuring that we innovate with new ideas while maintaining a unified vision of where we want to go. To navigate what must be done as intermediate architecture while preserving a target.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Play a key role in the Architecture Review Board of the Fintech organization
• Supporting teams and projects to deliver on time and delivering feasible transition architecture solutions while focusing on the target state architecture on the long term.
• Validating the theoretical with the implementation to ensure that the environment feedback feeds the theoretical boundaries.
• Delivering Architectural patterns and knowledge sharing sessions to spread Architecture awareness and good practices
• Writing Architectural documentation and guidelines and maintaining ownership of specific areas of focus.
• Reduce complexity and coupling in the architecture landscape
• Key stakeholder management with relevant stakeholders