Technical Program Manager II

Job Description

If you are a Program Manager with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, the ability to influence business and technical leaders in a dynamic environment and the desire to be a leader in Expedia's next generation technology, we want to talk with you. Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to build Expedia Group’s new PWA experience and bring value to our customers through exciting features.

The ideal candidate will draw upon their business acumen, ability to think critically and problem solve to evolve our platforms for changing business needs. The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and a great team player. Candidate should drive continuous process improvement and collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

What you will do:

• You will collaborate with Developers, Technical Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Managers and Product Managers to turn high level project objectives into stories with feature details in an agile development environment
• Work to balance objectives and manifest these as clear, stable priorities for the team.
• You'll produce scalable, flexible, efficient and supportable solutions using appropriate technologies
• Manage projects, drive delivery, plan/organize work, manage risks, communicate effectively and adapt to inevitable challenges.
• You'll continuously improve existing solutions building new technologies
• You effectively balance trade-offs between cost/schedule versus business benefit.
• Provide thought leadership to the team on massive-scale application issues such as reliability, serviceability, and performance.
• Actively contribute to our team's culture of having fun, embracing change, and delivering customers amazing
• You'll support and follow the Expedia Software Development Lifecycle and actively advance standard methodologies (e.g. Agile/Scrum, Continuous Delivery).
• You’ll ensure your team delivers high quality & on-time products and continuously innovates to improve engineering efficiency
• Drive program & system architecture discussions to identify a suitable quality solution to the business requirement.

Who you are-You’ll fit this role if you have:

• Bachelors or masters in a technology focused business degree or equivalent experience.
• Relevant years of program/project management within a technology environment, with a forward-thinking record of successful delivery of complex software systems or services.
• Experience in building service-oriented architecture solutions, RESTful Micro Services/distributed RPC, XML, JSON etc
• Experience/Understanding of in DB/SQL queries, Relational DB, No-SQL DBs
• Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of business and technical choices & identify what truly matters; problem solving skills a requirement.
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of vendor, business and technical leadership.
• Comprehensive understanding of software processes (development, configuration, testing, and deployment) is critical in this role.
• Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills are important.
• Passion to make things better at every opportunity.
• Ability to credibly coordinate between technical teams and business stakeholders
• Familiarity with travel domain
• Familiarity with AWS/Cloud
• Experience with business metrics, modeling and/or risk management
• Prior experience as a scrum manager or agile product owner
• Business/Process Analyst experience
• An entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to drive innovation independently

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 extraordinary 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 passionately 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 hunger 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®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.comTM, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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