Engineering Manager - Data Lineage Team

Role Overview


The Data Lineage team aims to map all data flows and describe all data within Booking in support of the company's objective of maximizing the business value of data, while treating data respectfully and minimizing associated risks.

The team works closely together with a large number of teams in the Data, ML, and AI space to capture lineage information, to bring it together in its central repository, and to make it accessible to everyone at the company.

The long-term vision for the team is that the lineage graph grows into a Knowledge Graph that connects lineage data to business concepts and regulatory concepts, thereby enabling data-driven decision making, optimizing operational efficiency, and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, ultimately maximizing business value and minimizing compliance risks.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties


People Leadership

• 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

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic
• Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management
• Mastery in technology leadership
• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team
• Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives
• Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team
• Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team
• Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department
• 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

Architecture & Product Strategy

• Define, shape and deliver the roadmap
• 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

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant job experience in software development.
• 2+ years of relevant job experience as an engineering manager.
• Big Data experience (batch and streaming data processing, data lake, data warehouse) is preferred.
• Experience with Knowledge Engineering, in particular Knowledge Representation, is a plus.

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be found here.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Booking.com:

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just create a unique 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."

Read all about DEI and the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) at Booking.com here

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about Your Career Journey here.
• Become a Mentee and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.
• Access to personalized one-to-one coaching with our internal coaches.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job ID: booking-19771

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-23T18:34:09