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Director, Technology
Expedia
Bellevue, WA, United States
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Expedia
The Lodging Technology team is looking for an experienced and highly motivated senior leader to help us build the next generation Lodging platform. We are making the shift to go from a purely transactional platform to one that can provide insights/recommendations and improve the customer experience by using our vast data and employing machine learning techniques. You will lead a group of talented Engineers/Technologists and TPMs. Our services are designed to handle millions of transactions a day and run in a real-time 24x7 environment, so robustness, scalability, reliability and high performance is important. We work behind the scenes to make millions of transactions possible.
We are seeking an individual who is passionate about technology and has experience building/maintaining highly scalable services. You will drive excellence service with accountability for SLA’s. The right person will have strong technical and managerial skills to help design, build, and review the team's implementations. You should be unafraid to get into the details of the solution, guide implementation, and lead the end-to-end ownership of your systems. You will be responsible for the design, on-time and high-quality delivery of your team's assigned projects. In addition, you will conduct design and code reviews within the engineering team and leading and vetting designs across partner technical teams and with business leaders.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Do you have experience leading a distributed team of ~50 engineers? This role will lead the design and implementation of new functionality and improve existing products.
• Do you enjoy leading multiple projects, take on complex and unstructured problems using machine learning techniques? In this role you will mine Expedia’s big data to drive supplier insights.
• Do you enjoy driving technical solutions and details for all aspects of service design and ensures that resulting design specification fits and continuously improve the technical architectural framework? in this role you will make recommendations and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards in a DevOps, agile and dynamic environment.
• In this role you will be responsible for scheduling and on-time delivery of features throughout the software development lifecycle.
• You will ensure that the deployed software is scalable and reliable.
• You will engage with a broad set of partners including Product Management and Data Science to take on business problems and challenges with actionable service strategies, backed by data driven approach and mindset.
• You will perform analysis to define design requirements for modification to existing tools, utilities, system structures, environments and provide technical feedback into project scope and estimating activities.
• You will mentor junior members of the team, guide development standards and define our application architecture, providing training and career development opportunities for your team.
• You will provide timely and appropriate communication to business owners, partners, and users on issue status and resolution.
• You will participate in defining and promoting engineering practices within the organization in collaboration with other engineering leaders.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• A minimum 5 years of experience in leading engineering teams combined with a minimum 8 years of experience as a senior developer
• Extensive experience with design concepts, development frameworks, and SOA architectures.
• Strong experience with algorithms and data structures, multi-threading, concurrency, caching and scalable/distributed systems.
• Knowledge and experience with agile/iterative and object-oriented methodologies, notations, and processes.
• Demonstrate experience leading enterprise scale projects employing machine learning methods, such as regression, neural networks, tree-based methods, etc.
• Experience delivering data insights by querying dataset in a Big Data environment (SQL Server, AWS Aurora, etc) and performing real-time streaming analytics.
• Ability to independently drive technical investigations and scope efforts to completion.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Proven maturity, judgment, negotiation and analytical skills.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment.
• A strong drive and passion to learn about new business models and internet technologies.
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical disciplines.
• Software related MS or technical MBA is a plus.
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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.