Romania - Data Governance Specialist

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

Data Governance Specialist will support the implementation and advancement of data governance practices across the Booking Holdings brands. This role plays a key part in ensuring that BKNG's data is trusted, well-managed, and aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements.

As a Data Governance Specialist, you will collaborate with global stakeholders to implement data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA DMBOK) and the underlying principles — and contribute to the ongoing development of the brands data management capabilities. You will act as a bridge between business and technical teams, advising on best practices, facilitating adoption of policies and standards, and supporting the integration of governance tools and processes.

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

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

Support the design, rollout, and continuous improvement of data governance frameworks/capabilities, policies & standards, and procedures.

Provide domain expertise on data governance methodologies and best practices (using industry frameworks e.g. DAMA).

Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define, set up and implement data governance capabilities (e.g. data ownership and stewardship).

Assist in the configuration and use of data governance and data catalog tools.

Advise teams/stakeholders on data quality management, metadata management, master & ref data management and data lifecycle practices.

Support data literacy initiatives and help embed a culture of data accountability across BKNG.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Required:

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Computer Science or other analytical areas.

Prior experience working in data governance, data cataloging/lineage or comparable data-oriented role is required. Greater than 3 years of relevant experience is preferred.

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with written and verbal English.

Complex problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills, Storytelling with data, Stakeholder management.

Ability to work independently.

Nice to have:

Experience working with Product Managers and Software/Data Engineering Teams

Experience with Collibra, JIRA, Gitlab, Snowflake, Python, Project Management Tools

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP certification)

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.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.