• Inspire and motivate multiple cross functional teams; Directly manage engineers; Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating; Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team; Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com teams and roles and celebrates unified success; Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work. • Engineering planning and delivery, technical quality and use of best practices within own team; Delivery of wider engineering strategic objectives; Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team; Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team; Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations; Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed; Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department. • Define, shape and deliver the roadmap; Build new products, processes and operational plans; Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features; Drive innovation in the team; Own the architecture across the team and drive architectural alignment.