Convergent Mediation Engineer (Evergreen)

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Overview:

The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department and is responsible for SAP, HANA, and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.We power our Financial Systems using SAP technology like FICA, BRIM (Convergent Mediation, Convergent Invoicing etc), ABAP, HANA, Java, Kafka, Mulesoft and SAP S/4 HANA 2022.  

As a  Developer specialized in SAP Convergent Mediation (CM) you will work on bringing in various business critical data from upstream systems, reconcile data based on the relevant Business process within Financial Systems and generate business relevant transactions to be consumed in FICA and SAP CI.  You will collaborate with SAP Functional Engineers, SAP ABAP Developers, Kafka specialists, Product Managers and Architects across various teams within the organization to build the relevant Integration between upstream systems and SAP.  

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Own CM solutions end-to-end from design through deployment, monitoring, and operational support in production.

• Design scalable solutions using SAP Convergent Mediation and Booking’s Kafka infrastructure for Finance relevant use cases.

• Building Workflows and Configurations to Collect Finance specific data from upstream systems using Kafka, File/FTP, REST, Database methods.

• Use various data formats like Avro to process and decode data to create relevant BITs for SAP CI and FICA.

• Build Unit, Integration and Automation tests for the various workflows in CM and integrate them with relevant upstream and downstream systems.

• Integrate CM workflows with specific version control systems like git and Gitlab.

• Debug and correct CM issues including issues from upstream and downstream interfaces.

• Collaborate with SAP Functional FICA specialists, ABAP developers, Architects, Product Managers and Leadership on a regular basis to comprehend, design and build business critical integration activities within SAP CM. 

• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements for CM workflows and integrations.

• Mentor junior engineers / support onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Apply architectural, security, and non-functional best practices when designing scalable CM integrations.

What You’ll Be Bringing 

• 5 - 9 years of Software Design and Development Experience in integration and related technologies. 

• In Depth Hands-on knowledge of SAP Convergent Mediation (CM) with abilities to design and build Workflows.

• Ability to build scalable solutions in SAP CM and supporting Logging, Tracing and Alerting with various tools.

• Ability to use version control tools like git and GitLab with CM is highly preferred.

• Building monitoring Dashboards using Loki, Grafana, Prometheus etc

• Knowledge of building Unit, Integration and Automation tests using SAP CM is highly desirable. 

• Deep experience in working with Large data sources with ability to build a scalable CM solution using Kafka, REST API, File/FTP and Database sources.

• Processing and Decoding different UDRs and being able to use data formats like Avro.

• Creating Co-relations, Processing the relevant inputs and generating BITs for SAP Convergent Invoicing (CI) and FICA.

• Hands-on experience in SAP HANA (mandatory), AWS ( RDS, Athena, SNS, SNQ,  and SAP BRIM (good to have)

• Good hands on Devops , CI/CD and Change management

• Experience or Exposure to Java and Kafka is highly preferred.

• Working knowledge of Jira, Agile processes, Test Automation Tools is good to have. 

• An Engineering/Science degree in Computer Science/ Electrical/Electronics/ IT etc .Innovation and Team Player mindset.

• Job location is Bengaluru

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