Technical Program Manager
Role Description:
Our FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, 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 travellers and partners.
We are looking for a sharp, talented and energetic Technical Program Manager. As a FinTech TPM, you have the ability to deliver large cross-organisational software development projects at the intersection of e-commerce and payments. Building financial services is not easy, but you know what it takes to pull it off.
What you’ll be doing:
- Interact with project sponsors, project stakeholders to define and deliver projects
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
- Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner
- Insatiable curiosity and ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
- Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches
- Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches and numerous constraints
- Be the driving force that collaborates with business and technical teams across Booking to make sure your teams deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible - all the while maintaining a strong customer focus.
What you’ll bring:
- Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including technical program management experience
- The role requires experience working with ERPs like SAP/Oracle in Financial modules like Record to Report, Tax, Treasury processes, and a strong understanding of the requirements of this domain.
- Knowledge of the following is required: product development life cycle, agile project management, stakeholder management
- Experience in Leading the delivery of technical solutions to business problems as cross-team initiatives
- Experience in cross organization priority alignment to deliver program outcomes
- Experience in ensuring a realistic and objective delivery plan, based on end to end technical solution, is in place, which is based on data and appropriate delivery metrics
- Experience in visualising and managing Risks, Issues & Dependencies to enable delivery success
- Experience in ensuring effective communication + stakeholder management is in place
- Experience in owning + driving appropriate common delivery governance across organization with diverse delivery practices and organization culture
- Experience in ensuring effective delivery best practice is in place which aligns to agile delivery principles.
We offer:
This role is open to candidates who are eligible to work in India.- 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
- We aim to empower you to do your best work, whether in the office or at home, with our Hybrid work policy
- 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
- World class benefits. Competitive compensation and benefits package
We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.