Architect - FinTech Foundations, FinTech

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 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.

Our brand new FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai - develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

The FinTech Foundations team is the central nervous system of our entire FinTech Products division. Our mission is to build the critical, horizontal platform and services that our product teams rely on to innovate and succeed. We tackle the most complex, cross-cutting challenges in scalability, reliability, and core functionality, creating a stable and powerful bedrock for future growth. A role on this team offers a unique opportunity to influence the entire FinTech ecosystem and deliver value at scale.

• Drive architectural excellence by playing a key role in the FinTech Architecture Review Board, ensuring solutions meet our high standards for quality, security, and scalability.
• Guide and support engineering teams in designing and delivering feasible solutions that meet project deadlines while advancing our long-term architectural vision.
• Bridge theory and practice by continuously validating architectural designs against real-world implementation, using feedback to refine our strategies and standards.
• Champion architectural best practices by developing reusable patterns, creating technical documentation, and leading knowledge-sharing sessions across the organization.
• Simplify our technology landscape by actively identifying and reducing architectural complexity and unnecessary coupling between systems.
• Shape our technical strategy by establishing and maintaining the FinTech Product's Tech Radar, evaluating emerging technologies to drive innovation and guide investment.
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships by managing communications effectively to ensure strategic alignment, proactively identify risks, and build consensus.

• 4+ years of relevant job experience in an architecture role
• Architectural Design: Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, resilient, and secure software architectures, ideally within a FinTech or e-commerce environment.
• Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including knowledge of their core services and architectural best practices
• Modern Methodologies: Demonstrated experience with software design methodologies like Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and facilitating collaborative workshops such as Event Storming.
• Stakeholder Management: Expertise in translating complex stakeholder needs and business requirements into clear technical specifications and actionable architectural designs.
• Communication & Influence: Solid communication skills with professional fluency in English (written and spoken), capable of documenting and presenting complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic mindset, enabling you to contribute directly to the business unit's technology vision and strategy

• 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
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

• Let's go places together: How we Hire
• This role does not come with relocation assistance