Booking

At Booking.com we make it easier for everyone to experience the world, and while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more.

Across our offices worldwide, we continue to innovate. To solve for some of the most complex challenges in travel and technology, and to plan for the exciting developments that lie ahead. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening up new career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission.

We are united in the belief that our very human desire to explore the planet’s beauty and discover more about other people and cultures will endure. The world is waiting for us. Together, we will be ready.

Booking.com core values
● Think customer first
● Succeed together
● Own It
● Learn Forever
● Do the Right Thing

About the team
The Trips Data Management team at Booking.com looks after data and enhancement for everything but the stay at Booking.com. This includes data platforms, data warehouse, governance, quality, modelling and enrichment enabling teams across the organisation to understand and manage our business performance and improve the experience of our customers.

We are looking for a highly experienced and resilient Senior Data Modeller to join our Data Governance & Value team to drive governance strategy, implementing policies and standards, data modelling, and supporting teams to deliver robust, trusted data to our customers. This role will be based in our London office (Monument). 

About the Role
As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for leading on the development and utilisation of Data Models within the Trips Business Unit through the engagement with internal teams and deliveries. Defining and documenting the As-is and To-be Data Models and supporting the adoption and embedding of Data Modelling capabilities.

In this role-you will be seen as the go-to person for all existing and and new requirements. It is also essential that you can act as a bridge between the business and engineering to manage progression from conceptual to physical data models.

This is a newly created role reporting into the Principle Data Governance & Value Manager within the Data Management Team for Trips Business Unit of Booking.com with a unique opportunity to define, build and embed robust Data Modelling capabilities.

Responsibilities:
To successfully deliver change in a fast paced working environment you will need to:
● Responsible for engaging with the business to define and document our As-is and To-be Data Models
● Be visible and engage the wider business areas; Data Science & Analytics, Machine Learning and Product teams, to be the go-to person for all Data Modelling queries
● Communicate with key stakeholders to keep them up to date with the Data Model development process
● Provide regular progress reports against OKRs and KPIs to demonstrate alignment with business objectives and key success factors.
● Define, manage and optimise the Data Model Framework and ensure consideration for the architectural roadmap for Data Marts, AWS and existing and future Data Platforms.
● Support objectives to embed Data Models as part of the overall Data Governance and Value roadmap.
● Curation, maintenance and distribution of Trips Data Models, (Conceptual, Logical and Physical) which can be operationalised within the companies workflows and infrastructure to ensure data solutions meet business requirements and consumers can derive value from our data.
● Define and ensure adoption of standardised data modelling and architecture capabilities.
● Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through mapping data flows between systems and workflows across the company.
● Implement processes to manage changes in data and adoption of new data solutions.
● Support the identification and establishment of Data Owners.

Your skills and experience:
● Experience in implementing or actively participating in a company-wide data governance program.
● Have strong technical ability, experience of implementing data solutions
● Solid understanding of the needs of consumers and how to deliver and measure value in data solutions
● Have great organisational and communication skills and be able to communicate with the business at all levels and across disciplines - data specific, technical and non-technical
● Rich experience of data architecture and modelling and improving how data is consumed
● Strong knowledge of data modelling methods (Relational, Dimensional)
● Strong knowledge of data and enterprise architecture, e.g. TOGAF
● Intermediate knowledge of Data Management & Governance requirements based on best practices, e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM
● Intermediate knowledge of one or more database querying languages or scripting tools. e.g. SQL, VBA
● Proficient in working within an Agile product-based organisation
Desirable Skills:
● Experience of data lineage/catalogue tools e.g. Collibra, Informatica
● Experience delivering Cloud Data Platforms, migrations and integration
● Understanding of analytical tools to improve performance
● Deep understanding of e-commerce and travel business models

Benefits:
● 25 vacation days (rising to 28) to go exploring, plus the option to buy/sell up to 3 days each year
● Generous accommodation discount, so you can explore for less
● Bonus package
● Pension with up to 10% matched company contribution
● Huge learning and development platform tailored to you
● Shopping and leisure discounts through Perkbox
● Interest free travel loans/discounted car parking
● Competitive maternity/paternity/adoption leave
● Flexible working, including working from home
● Wellbeing focus, with weekly onsite yoga, outdoor terrace, games room and massage chair 
● Mental health first-aiders and free face-to-face support