Integration Engagement Manager

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the team
Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners, including hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and more, deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We drive growth for our partners and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply, our leading advertising and travel media network and affiliate solutions. As an Integration Engagement Manager, you will work directly with our Integration Connectivity Providers to manage integration projects from initiation to completion. You will help guide and consult partners through questions, development, testing, and eventual API launch. In this position, you will be critical to connecting new partners as well as certifying existing partners on new feature adoptions.
In this role, you will:

• Lead larger scope projects to assure the integrity of lodging-related data and contribute to quality delivery within established SLAs.
• Lead the development of internal integration processes and help define the standards for excellence. Become a functional specialist for connectivity transactions.
• Lead communication and reporting on vendor certification progress. Work closely with Integration Engineers, Product and Technical Support as technical issues arise during the implementation of APIs.
• Work with Technical Relationship Managers to coordinate the integration project kickoffs. Own full-cycle certification testing for various Expedia APIs with new/existing partners.
• Provide the partner with standard methodologies for making the integration a success. Answer technical inquiries from all vendors relating to Expedia APIs
• Perform testing of various scenarios to ensure integration health and performance, system functionality, and behavior.
• Advance system issues with the appropriate support teams and engage internal technology teams to discuss product development and support.

Experience and qualifications:

• Experience with HTTP clients (Insomnia, POSTman), Salesforce, Splunk, Kibana, Outlook, Slack, and the capacity to read and understand GraphQL, JSON, and XML messages.
• Solid understanding of middleware integration platforms, system architecture, product APIs, web tools, testing environments, and internet protocols (HTTP, SSL, REST)
• Integration/Technical Experience: Proficient experience in EAI or B2B integrations
• Proficient in reviewing and troubleshooting using development logs and testing tools.
• Problem Solving: Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and discern the best solutions, involving internal or external resources.
• Results-oriented: You work towards efficiency, taking ownership of issues.
• Ability to work independently under tight deadlines, and thrive in a multi-tasked, constantly evolving environment, while maintaining a focus on goals
• Communication: Able to communicate across all levels of the organization hierarchy. Ability to communicate in technical terms to non-technical resources and speak technically with technical resources.
• Handling Complexity: Work across teams to achieve goals and resolve issues, remaining educated and up to date on new technologies and system developments, and ability to prioritize multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

The total cash range for this position in Madrid is €36,000.00 to €50,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to €57,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

You can find the benefits for this location and any collective agreement that may apply here.

Accommodation requests

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.