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Director, Cloud Engineering
Expedia
London, , United Kingdom
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Expedia
The Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) is an entrepreneurial start-up inside one of the world’s biggest travel companies. As one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing affiliate network ($3 billion in sales and counting), EAN works with thousands of partners in over 33 countries to turn their traffic into hotel bookings and happy customers. EAN offers the full range of Expedia’s hotel services and solutions to third parties. The business has enjoyed a period of significant growth over the past three years.
You will work with the brightest minds in the travel business in an energetic and international work environment focused on innovation, creative problem-solving and collaboration.
EAN provides accommodation to our partners through our set of leading-edge APIs and our brand new Hotels.com for Partners template.
EAN is seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering to build and lead a new cloud team across all EAN technology locations. In this role, you will have to hire top cloud engineering talent, build multiple cloud services teams and spearhead our migration into the cloud efforts.
Cloud infrastructure has changed the way we build and operate software platforms and at EAN we aim to get the most out of this technology. The cloud engineering team will lead all cloud migrations while building the right tooling and frameworks for the development teams to get the most out of the new infrastructure.
You will have strong leadership capabilities for technology teams, a technical background and hands on expertise in technology, a passion for solving complex and strategically important business problems in an agile environment, dedication as well as ambition to innovative thinking to ensure that EAN will continue to grow as a technology leader.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Direct and control the activities of the Cloud Engineering Team.
• Build and grow a world-class technology team with tight teamwork, efficient processes and strategic value add
• Lead all cloud migration efforts by designing and implementing cloud based architecture and tooling for all EAN platforms, systems and apps.
• Manage multiple concurrent, complex, and/or unique projects and initiatives across EAN
• Serve in a technology advisory capacity and as a business partner to the EAN Technology Leadership team
• Set technology standards and direct the execution of initiatives from inception through execution
• Develop operational roadmaps and processes, and define organization in terms of how to meet the work needs over the next 12 months, prioritize work, organise resources and make recommendations to executives on operational structure
• Focus on continually evolving towards faster cycles, pushing business impacting functionality to market quicker
• Ensure systems have high availability and performance
• Lead the team in developing capacity models to forecast the delivery schedule for team project portfolio, model different scenarios and future project resource needs
• Define key metrics for operational processes and implementing performance enhancement programs
• Work with other teams within Expedia Inc. to deliver cross-group projects
• Ensures the ongoing training and development of direct reports
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.