About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

As a Solution Architect, you play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Finance capabilities, helping the organization evolve its products, services, operating model, and business processes into a scalable, customer-centric ecosystem that supports our global growth ambitions.
Operating at the intersection of business strategy, finance, technology, and operations, you ensure that strategic objectives are translated into cohesive business capabilities, value streams, and transformation roadmaps. Your focus extends beyond today’s operating model—you define how our finance organization, payment ecosystem, and digital capabilities will evolve over the coming years, leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive innovation, efficiency, and customer value.
You bring clarity to complex business challenges by developing enterprise-wide business architecture, future-state operating models, capability maps, and strategic transformation blueprints. Your work enables executive leadership to make informed investment decisions and prioritize initiatives that create measurable business outcomes.
This role is about much more than architecture. You are a strategic advisor, trusted partner, and change leader who connects business units, finance, product, data, operations, and technology around a shared vision. You have the ability to translate complex concepts into compelling narratives and executive-level insights, influencing stakeholders ranging from senior leadership and product executives to finance teams and transformation programs.
You understand that transformation is achieved through execution, not just vision. You combine long-term strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery, ensuring that architecture is translated into tangible initiatives, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise-wide programs that deliver measurable value.
Your work helps modernize our global finance organization while enabling scalable FinTech capabilities, intelligent automation, and AI-driven decision making that enhance both operational excellence and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the business architecture for Finance, Payments, and FinTech capabilities, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and business objectives.

• Analyze current business capabilities, operating models, processes, and value streams, identifying opportunities for simplification, automation, and innovation.

• Design future-state business architectures and transformation roadmaps that support scalable global growth.

• Partner with Finance, Fintech, Product, Commercial, Data, and Technology leaders to shape strategic investment decisions and enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Lead cross-functional business transformation programs, ensuring alignment between strategy, business capabilities, and execution.

• Drive AI adoption across finance and business operations by identifying high-value use cases, embedding intelligent automation, and enabling data-driven decision making.

• Develop executive-ready business models, capability maps, value stream maps, and strategic visualizations that simplify complex business challenges.

• Ensure business architecture is embedded throughout the portfolio lifecycle, from strategic planning through program execution and value realization.

• Monitor industry trends across AI, FinTech, digital payments, travel technology, and enterprise transformation, translating market developments into actionable business opportunities.

• Establish strong stakeholder relationships across executive leadership, finance, product, engineering, operations, and transformation teams, aligning diverse perspectives toward common business outcomes.

• Measure and communicate the business value delivered through transformation programs, ensuring strategic initiatives achieve targeted commercial and operational benefits.

Qualifications & Requirements

You are a strategic thinker who quickly creates clarity in complex environments and naturally connects business strategy, operating models, customer value, and organizational objectives. You combine strong analytical skills with exceptional stakeholder management and know how to inspire and influence people throughout periods of transformation.
In addition, you bring:

• A Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Business Architecture, Strategy, Finance, Information Management, Organizational Development, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Transformation, Strategy, Finance Transformation,
• Operating Model Design, or Organizational Development within a complex, international organization.
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Proven experience developing business capability models, target operating models, value streams, and transformation roadmaps that align business strategy with execution.
• Strong understanding of Finance, FinTech, payments, digital platforms, and business operations, with the ability to identify opportunities for innovation and business growth.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
  
  

Inclusion at Booking.com: 

Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. 

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.” 

We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process: 

• Let’s go places together: How we Hire

• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department. 

This role does not come with relocation assistance.

Booking.com 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.