Expedia

Are you an accomplished leader who has the technical skills to implement sophisticated, innovative solutions? Do you enjoy leading and mentoring growing teams of engineers?

The Expedia Ordering team is looking for a Director of Technology to provide booking and post booking transactional capabilities to EG Brands to support our customers and partners. You will utilize your deep understanding of technical aspects of implementation and business insight to be able to ask strategic questions that help clarify and guide our teams through priorities and decision-making. You will strive for continuous improvement and find new innovative ways to increase execution efficiencies. Your ability to act with autonomous initiative is essential as you navigate partnerships with teams across the company and around the world.

What you'll do:

• Lead the strategy and execution for the Ordering Services product platform globally ensuring ongoing support of the existing, building new features, and supporting existing features.

• Drive platform scale for more global expansion for Hotels, Expedia, EAN, Hotwire and related brands ensuring robust support for the business’ rapid growth trajectory.

• Push platform configurability and extensibility for Expedia Group partner enablement globally.

• Tightly integrate with other Technology and Product leaders to drive consistency in our solutions.

• Develop deep partnerships with Product Stakeholders to build platform products and technologies that support the business’s growth trajectory.

• Attract, recruit and foster top talent, providing mentoring and appropriate career opportunities to team members.

• Develop close partnerships and alignment with eCP (eCommerce Platform) and brand technology leaders and teams.

Who you are:

• BS/MS in computer science or related field.

• 8+ years growing and leading large geo distributed software engineering teams.

• Demonstrated effective communication and relationship building skills across internal and external partners.

• Passion for customers, technology, delivering high quality products and services, and applying new technologies and practices.

• Deep knowledge of large scale service design and architecture.

• Deep understanding of public cloud based platform services including No-SQL data systems, microservices, serverless designs, complex event processing, web security, and data analytics.

• Experience building and operating large scale platform services for customers and partners.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground, so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a desire to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, VRBO®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

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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.