Senior Director Engineering – Connected Trip Experience & Data

Overview

In this leadership role you steer the Connected Trip Experience, Foundations and Data within Booking.com’s Marketplace, guiding a large, multi-team engineering function. You partner with Product and Data to deliver scalable, AI-enhanced customer experiences at high traffic, while shaping engineering practice and strategy. You will foster a high-trust, inclusive culture and drive rapid delivery aligned with business goals. Your work shapes how travellers experience connected trips across platforms and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology organisations for Connected Trip Product Experience, Foundations and Data
• Partner with Product & Data to plan and deliver objectives
• Embed Gen AI into customer experiences, workflows and data platforms
• Raise organisation maturity for speed, focus and resilience
• Engage and align stakeholders across technology and non‑tech domains
• Lead by example, manage Directors/Senior Managers and top technical talent
• Communicate strategy effectively and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture
• Shape technology strategy, architecture, and roadmaps across the function
• Drive Agile and DevOps practices; own delivery and architectural governance
• Own and evolve architecture across the function
• Mentor and develop senior tech leaders and build a world-class team

Key requirements

• Extensive tech leadership experience at scale
• Experience with large-scale platforms and high traffic (100,000+ visitors/day)
• Proven track record leading cross-functional engineering organizations (150–200+ people)
• Strong background building high-quality web and mobile apps for consumer use
• Experience in Agile environments and fostering an Agile culture
• Ability to align engineering and business strategy over medium/long term
• Experience coaching senior tech leaders and growing teams
• Independent, pragmatic, proactive work attitude
• Excellent communication and commercial acumen
• Willingness to deputise for VP of Engineering
• Cloud-based technologies
• Building a DevOps culture

• strong communication
• collaboration
• leadership by example
• AI adoption and Gen AI integration
• data & AI products & services
• architecture and engineering best practices

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