Senior Technical Program Manager (For Independent Contractors)

EUR 60-120 per hour
SENIOR
✅ Hybrid ✅ On-site
✅ Contract / Freelance

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Software Development @ 4 Tableau @ 4 Airflow @ 4 Machine Learning @ 4 Compliance @ 4 Agile @ 4

Details

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join the Data & Machine Learning team at Booking.com. This is an independent contractor role working on the next generation of Booking Data Exchange (BDX) capabilities: specifically managing the Airflow migration, Tableau migration and SOxification of BDX.

Project details:

  • Location: Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands
  • Timeline: 6 months (Starts: Jun 15, 2026 — Ends: Dec 14, 2026)
  • Hours: 40 hrs/week
  • Payrate: 60 - 120 €/hr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business and technical teams across Booking to ensure delivery of scalable, secure, and flexible solutions with strong customer focus
  • Interact with project sponsors, stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs and balance business needs versus technical constraints
  • Plan and manage multiple parallel projects and create/maintain integrated project schedules accounting for dependencies, differing SDLC approaches and constraints
  • Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
  • Communicate project issues and status clearly and professionally to stakeholders
  • Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC), coordinating implementations across teams using different approaches
  • Drive clarity through ambiguity and leverage technical expertise with business acumen

Requirements

  • Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
  • Previous experience delivering technical programs is required
  • Advanced knowledge: 5 - 8 years of relevant work experience, including technical program management experience
  • Comfortable communicating about technical topics; ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills; data-driven and results-oriented
  • Proven track record of leading strategy to deliver global, company-wide platform services at enterprise scale

Technologies / Topics Mentioned

  • Apache Airflow (migration)
  • Tableau (migration)
  • SOX compliance / SOxification
  • SDLC and agile / blended development approaches
  • Data & Machine Learning context