Romania - Senior Technical Program Manager

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

Booking Holdings is searching for a highly experienced Senior Technical Program Manager with a strong background in security and compliance. We're seeking a self-starter and highly motivated Technical Program Manager to lead and implement strategic security initiatives. The ideal candidate brings a proactive approach, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and has the drive to find opportunities, shape programs, and deliver results across teams. A broad understanding of security and a passion for making things happen are essential to succeed in this role. This individual will be responsible for spearheading programs designed to elevate service and infrastructure security, guarantee adherence to regulatory standards, and prioritize customer safety.

The ideal candidate will possess a solid understanding of program management fundamentals and demonstrate the ability to effectively translate between business and technical fields. They will be adept at leading large-scale, cross-organizational technical projects and collaborating closely with security, risk, audit, and engineering teams.

Knowledge of the following is required: security related standards and regulations, (agile) program management. Knowledge of some of the following domains is highly desirable: network infrastructure and Zero Trust design, risk management, cybersecurity operations, GenAI, threat management, incident management, security product development.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

Deliver key security programs from inception to business-as-usual, with stakeholders across multiple teams, product groups, and business units.

Ensure a realistic and objective delivery plan, based on end to end technical solution, is in place, which is based on data and appropriate delivery metrics

Coordinate the implementation of security improvements across multiple teams with different approaches and strategic priorities.

Stakeholder and communication management, including working closely with Engineering, Product, Security, Legal and Compliance to deliver these critical programs.

Engage with regional business and technical stakeholders to identify security needs, and maintain a broad understanding of the regulatory landscape impacting Booking Holdings

Work with a global cross-functional team of security engineers, product owners and risk teams to identify security and compliance gaps and build roadmaps to address issues. 

Own delivery governance: provide predictable, proactive reporting tailored to the appropriate audience (Senior LT, Engineering Teams, and stakeholders) so that service and business owners have clear visibility on initiatives.

Proactively identify ways to improve processes and capabilities to ensure we are compliant, efficient, and respond to business needs.

Be able to influence architectural and technical aspects of services and processes. Furthermore, evaluate and identify risks within a given system design or architecture, and propose risk mitigation plans and obtain agreement from risk owners.

Coordinate 3rd party service providers when required, including vendor selection and management of deliverables

Be a "subject matter expert" in different cybersecurity domains including familiarity with industry-standard frameworks; and assist the Security Senior Manager to identify ways to increase the team's business impact, and improve and streamline the productivity.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Bachelor Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience

5 to 8 years of relevant work experience, including technical program management experience or related discipline

3+ years' experience working with cross functional technical teams and business units to design and deliver security and/or compliance products and programs

A proven track record of translating high-level objectives and strategy into cross-organizational deliverables

Self-starter driving security program delivery

Leads security initiatives with autonomy

Experience with Agile environments and certification is desirable

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks under pressure

Proven ability to collaborate and influence across the spectrum of internal and external business stakeholders

Create strong partnerships with critical teams in the Booking Holdings group

Benefits & Perks

Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

Competitive compensation and benefits package 

Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings 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.

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