This is an advanced engineering role on the intersection of business and technology; requiring knowledge of building highly scalable and resilient services as well as strong ability to connect engineering with business concerns. Contact us If you are ready to take ownership of software development with global impact.
With this in mind, we are looking for a seasoned SAP Basis Engineering Manager to join us on this adventure within our Financial Systems team.
What you’ll be doing:
People Leadership
- Inspire and motivate multiple cross functional teams both offshore and inshore;
- Directly manage engineers;
- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating;
- Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team;
- Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success;
- Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work.
- Manage the relation with the managed services teams, to ensure quality and deliverables.
Technology, Craft & Delivery
- Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team;
- Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives;
- Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team;
- Ability to get into the technical detail when required, to coach, support and mentor the team;
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations;
- Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed;
- Build and run secure environments and governance complying to the latest relevant frameworks (DORA, NIS2, SOx, GDPR);
- Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department.
Architecture & Product Strategy
- Define, shape and deliver the roadmap;
- Contribute to quarterly and yearly planning to deliver department objectives;
- Build new products, processes and operational plans;
- Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features;
- Drive innovation in the team;
- Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment.
Qualifications
15+years of experience with design of SAP environments including integration of digital platforms/legacy applications with SAP
4+ years in people leadership role and managing multicultural teams.
Product engineering background in large organizations
Experience with design, engineering and management for:
- SAP applications (Basis and HANA, SAP cloud)
- Highly available deployments on Linux
- large virtualized environments (SAP on AWS preferred)
Strong stakeholder management abilities (is able to communicate with multiple, cross-functional stakeholders, able to influence stakeholders and manage competing priorities)
A passion to identify and solve user problems;
Experience in designing and building resilient, secure, high performing architectures;
Experience managing teams in an international environment (or in companies with a culture similar to that of B.com)
Proficiency in agile, dev-ops methodology, release management practices and tools in a complex SAP landscape;
A good knack for spotting talent, a team player who can enable the growth of people they work with
Interest in the latest technology trends and open for innovations coming at any level of the team;
Experience in payments industry is strongly preferred;
Experience with multiple security and compliance frameworks is preferred;
SAP certifications are preferred
Job Location is Bangalore
In return, we’ll provide:
- An opportunity to contribute to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;
- Be part of a fast paced environment and performance driven culture
- Various opportunities to grow technically and personally via side projects, hackathons, conferences and your involvement in the community;
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;
- 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;
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.