Director Big Data and Governance Platforms

Booking.com

Amsterdam, Netherlands Posted October 3, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Job Description

Join as the Director of Big Data and Governance Platforms. In this role, you will define and lead the technology strategy for foundational platforms used across the company. You will create a coherent platform ecosystem that enables fast delivery while keeping data secure, trusted, compliant, and accountable. You will partner closely with various teams across the organization and be responsible for setting the direction, building the organization, and creating the conditions for sustained delivery. This is an opportunity to shape one of 's important enterprise capabilities and unlock innovation while protecting customers, partners, and the company.

  • Definir y liderar la estrategia tecnológica para una cartera de plataformas fundamentales utilizadas en toda la empresa.
  • Construir un ecosistema de plataformas coherente que permita una entrega rápida mientras se mantiene la seguridad, la confianza, el cumplimiento y la responsabilidad de los datos.
  • Colaborar estrechamente con diversas partes interesadas en la empresa para traducir las necesidades estratégicas y regulatorias en capacidades de plataforma duraderas.
  • Building strong engineering culture: reliability, security, compliance, accountability and operational ownership
  • Strong knowledge of Data & AI Governance, including metadata, lineage, discovery, data quality, observability, access management, privacy and policy enforcement
  • Proven ability to lead large, senior and multidisciplinary teams in a global, federated or matrixed environment
  • Strong strategic leadership and execution: roadmapping, prioritisation, budgeting, operating-model design and organisational development
  • Excellent stakeholder influence and communication, especially translating technical, regulatory and risk topics into practical decisions
  • User empathy, commercial judgement and pragmatism, making governance easy to adopt rather than a barrier to delivery
  • Enterprise architecture and platform-product thinking—turning complex capabilities into reliable, intuitive and reusable services
  • Deep expertise in Big Data platforms, cloud data infrastructure and data engineering
Required Skills
compliance leadership roadmapping time management budgeting operating model communication data engineering
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