SAP HANA Engineer - Financial Systems, 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.

The Financial Systems team in the FinTech business unit provides technical expertise to the finance department and is responsible for supporting and innovating SAP ERP/S4HANA, SAP BI, Native HANA solutions, and many other connected external systems. We want to change the way people work with enterprise systems, by building an application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better integrations and financial insights.

Role Overview

As a SAP HANA developer, you will have a combination of technical and analytical skills with a deep understanding of the business. You will be responsible for the research into, and the analysis of, business processes to optimize current processes, building models to describe the business, and creating scalable solutions. You will also provide support to the existing systems and processes used within the finance department. This role involves extensive daily interaction with functional specialists, product team within finance and the finance department; therefore it is essential that you have a good understanding of finance, experience of implementing changes within finance systems and processes, and strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Due to the continued and rapid growth of the organization, there is the opportunity for the tasks and duties of the position to evolve over time. You will need to be keen to develop and grow with the role and to take on additional challenges, responsibilities and projects as they occur.

• Investigate, explore and optimize business processes
• Create and implement models and development artifacts for business
• Develop and maintain the integration of SAP and external data sources
• Work with product managers / functional specialists / stakeholders to understand underlying business processes, analyze business needs and translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Prepare technical specifications, design and develop solutions
• Maintain existing artifacts and debug issues
• Plan and develop changes independently and in collaboration with product teams and functional specialists

• Min 5-7 years of experience in the IT industry.
• 3+ years of full hands-on SAP HANA development AND SAP HANA modeling experience is a must
• Intensive experience with SAP HANA XSA development
• Strong knowledge of SAP HANA SQL, Stored Procedures and Functions
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of calculation views and stored procedures is required
• Experience with OData using XSOData is requiredExperience with Application Function Libraries, search, text analysis and mining, spatial, graph engines is a plus
• Experience with Git concepts (GitHub / Gitlab) is a must.
• Experience with CI/CD, pipelines is a plus
• Knowledge of working with SDA/SDI and SLT is an advantage.
• Ability to have good grasp of the detail and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to work in a quick turnaround environment
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written
• Organized, flexible, open minded, proactive and result-oriented

• 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)

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• This role does not come with relocation assistance