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:

• 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.