Senior BI Engineer

Job Overview

At Booking.com, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission.

The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department and is responsible for SAP HANA and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.

As a BI engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining reporting solutions. You will have a thorough understanding of SAP Hana and data integration and be responsible for designing and implementing business requirements as well as data accuracy in reports. You will support the team in day-to-day SAP Hana development and support, monitoring the production environment, identifying and fixing issues, and improving system performance. As this role involves daily interaction with the finance department, it is essential that you have a good background in finance, and strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Development and support of BI environment in collaboration with finance stakeholders.
• Ongoing development and maintenance of SAP Hana reporting platform.
• Responsible for data loading, monitoring and system performance.
• Engage with users to understand their needs and develop/maintain application, logical and technical data architectures.
• Integration and implementation of changes.
• Training of key users.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of expertise in IT area.
• 5+ years of experience in implementation of SAP HANA.
• Implementation experience with SAP HANA 2.0 XSA is heavily preferred
• Understanding of XS Advanced features and capabilities (HDI)
• Very strong experience with SQL Script, Stored Procedures, Table Functions, designing tables, data loads, calculation views
• Optimization of Models, Understanding Plan Viz Performance tuning
• Familiar with SDA, SDI, SLT Concepts
• Understanding of CI/CD development practice and working with GIT in SAP Web IDE
• Exposure in XSA & DB Security concepts (Roles, Privileges etc)
• Comprehensive knowledge of XSOData, XSJS, SAPUI5, Gateway, Fiori application deployment is added advantage
• Knowledge of agile development processes (SCRUM or Kanban) and experience with Jira a plus.
• Superior attention to detail and quality required
• Proven ability to adopt new technologies
• Demonstrated interest for researching new technologies and developing business cases to support stakeholders across the organization
• Ability to have good grasp of the detail and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to work in a quick turnaround environment.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• Independent, organized, flexible, proactive and result oriented.