About the Financial Systems team

Our brand new FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, 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.

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.

We run our SAP environment on HANA and in February 2016 we migrated to Simple Finance. In 2019 we started our journey to S/4HANA with Central Finance.

About the role

As a SAP Engineer, you design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot scalable SAP and non-SAP infrastructure solutions. You contribute to platform improvements while ensuring operational stability, risk awareness, and regulatory compliance. You collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to support secure, resilient, and high-performing SAP landscapes in a globally distributed environment.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Combine your knowledge and expertise with the goals of our business to support and maintain a world-class solutions infrastructure and to enable our continued growth;

• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of the provided solutions;

• Be responsible for configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis;

• Plan, prepare, install, upgrade, and maintain complex SAP system landscapes;

• Plan and implement the appropriate change control for systems subject to SOX compliance;

• Ensure adherence to regulatory and control frameworks including SOx, NIST, DORA and internal security standards, balancing innovation with risk mitigation and system protection;

• Evaluate and design interfaces between SAP and external systems, handle the migration/upgrades of SAP databases;

• Support technical enablement and integration of modern SAP ecosystem components including Cloud ALM, SAP BTP, RISE with SAP landscapes, SAP Focused Run and S/4HANA transformation initiatives;

• Contribute to automation and infrastructure-as-code principles (Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible) across SAP landscapes to reduce manual operational risk and improve deployment reliability;

• Design, implement and operate the full stack (hardware, storage, operating system, system setup) that supports our systems and some non-SAP solutions (mainly) gravitating around our ERP;

• Be part of the Finance technical team that interfaces daily with other groups and works with system users to define their needs, identify problems, evaluate, advise and provide solutions;

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• SAP Basis administration work, with experience in upgrades/ migrations and SAP HANA administration;

• Good knowledge of the NetWeaver technology stack;

• Hands-on SAP administration experience from initial planning to final delivery (standard administration tasks, system copies, upgrades, migrations);

• Good conceptual knowledge of databases;

• Hands-on experience with HANA and/or other DBMSes;

• Good conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux and IP networking;

• Good development skills (preference to Bash, Python, ABAP).

• Good conceptual knowledge of Storage, web applications (FIORI), Single Sign-On (SSO) on SAP platforms;

• Experience with Cloud ALM, SAP BTP, SAP Focused Run, and RISE with SAP landscapes is strongly preferred;

• Strong understanding of security architecture, encryption principles, audit requirements, and segregation of duties in regulated financial environments;

• A great customer focus, standout colleague attitude and superb communication skills in English.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Booking.com:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."

We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process:

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• This role does not come with relocation assistance.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening

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