Data Products & AI Architect - Enterprise Applications, FinTech

Booking.comAmsterdamHybridFull-time2 weeks ago

Booking.com is seeking a Data & AI Architect to lead technical design for AI First Finance capabilities within its FinTech Data & AI organisation. The role involves connecting certified financial data with AI services, designing governed AI workflows, and collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Finance teams. Requires 10+ years in data engineering/architecture, including 3–5 years in a lead or architect role, with hands-on experience in enterprise data platforms and production AI applications.

What you'll do

Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, Data Governance, Legal, Security, and Compliance to translate business priorities and governance policies into scalable architecture, balancing value, delivery speed, cost, and risk.
Connect AI products to certified Finance data with clear definitions, data contracts, quality standards, lineage, and access controls.
Design Finance intelligence with governed calculations, traceable answers, and evaluation against examples validated by Finance.
Design and deploy AI workflows with secure integrations, robust SAP and third-party application connections, appropriate permissions, human approvals, and safe failure handling.
Reuse, extend, and evaluate enterprise capabilities, making clear build, buy, and reuse decisions in collaboration with Central Technology.
Validate architecture through prototypes, reference implementations, code reviews, process automation, and hands-on support for production delivery.
Embed evaluation, monitoring, audit evidence, SOX compliance, and segregation of duties (SoD) risk controls throughout the AI lifecycle alongside Engineering, Security, and Risk & Controls.
Architect robust compliance structures and reusable patterns across teams and brands that scale with company growth while respecting local business definitions and data boundaries.
Measure quality, reliability, performance, cost, and reuse to guide continuous improvements with Product and Engineering.

What you need

Must-have

SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryApache SparkApache KafkaApache AirflowLLM APIsOpenAI

Nice-to-have

TerraformAWSGCPAzureFinTechpayments

Soft skills

collaborationcommunicationstakeholder managementleadershipproblem solvingtrade-off analysis

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