Systems Architect, BizTech (Oracle Finance Integrations (OIC)

Systems Architect_BizTech Integrations

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You will Join:

• Airbnb is a company with a mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere, achieved through a unified team adhering to core values. The BizTech department plays a crucial role in this mission by providing reliable internal systems, enterprise technologies, innovative products, and technical support, fostering an empowered and inclusive progress. They also create technical breakthroughs and strategies that redefine the concept of belonging anywhere, delivering value to both the business and its people.
• The Integrations team of BizTech manages integrations and APIs across various SaaS products and internal systems. A Systems Architect within this team focuses on owning the end-to-end architecture of finance integrations, leading delivery of integration projects. This role involves improving processes, enhancing security, and enforcing best practices, while collaborating with functional and partner teams.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Systems Architect at Airbnb, your role is vital for advancing our integration platforms and SaaS integrations across the enterprise. You will work closely with the Finance and Procurement departments to ensure secure and efficient data exchanges, leading over 200 finance integrations within the Oracle Integration framework. Your responsibilities include guiding engineers in creating robust integrations, driving the evolution of Airbnb's integration architecture for future scalability, and managing key integration projects. You must be adept at navigating ambiguity, independently solving problems, and effectively discussing solution strategies. Your proactive problem-solving skills will greatly impact and shape our integration approach, promoting excellence and innovation.

A Typical Day:

• Lead Oracle Integration practice, drive multiple projects simultaneously, taking accountability and ownership of systems, integrations, and processes.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives. Collaborate and drive alignment with key stakeholders.
• Architect and build complex integrations, backend services, and APIs to connect various systems and automate processes.
• Lead design discussions within the team and with partner teams. Ensure all deliverables are of top quality and meet functional and non-functional (ilities) requirements.
• Communicate proactively with partner teams, stakeholders and within the team. Identifies and solves for communication gaps on team, ensures team members have clear expectations and priorities.
• Contributes to organizational priorities and in defining the team roadmap and strategy.
• Collaborate closely with functional leads, other technical leads and team. Participate in the full SDLC including design, implementation, reviews, QA, release and post-production support.
• Take responsibility for the smooth operation of the month-end financial integrations and reporting, among other aspects of the finance integrations. Proactively identify gaps in the system and operational processes, along with solutions to address.
• Tackle ambiguous problems, discuss problem-solving approaches, help unblock teams, and clearly articulate solution trade-offs.
• Helps improve practices that impact engineering efficiency, quality, and the ways of working
• Ensure industry best practices are being followed and security is top notch. 
• Educate the team about upcoming features in Oracle launches and prepare for any impacts.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle technologies, with at least 5+ years dedicated to Oracle Integration technologies including Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Strong understanding and working experience in Oracle modules such as FAH, Record to Report (R2R), Procure to Pay (P2P), Planning, AP, AR, ARCS, FCCS.
• Expertise in the architecture, design, and implementation of integrations and APIs to integrate a variety of SaaS apps; therefore, familiar with PGP, SSH, OAuth, HTTPS, SFTP, REST, SOAP.
• Strong experience in relational databases alongside strong SQL proficiency.
• Strong experience in building BICC extracts, BI publisher, BI reports, reconciliation reports, drill-down reports, OTBI reports, and dashboards.
• Good understanding of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and PaaS architecture with working experience on Object storage, Compute instances, ATP, ODI, IAM, and IDCS.
• Experience in building web pages using Apex/VBCS for business data management.
• Experience in programming languages such as Java and can build ground up.
• Experience with data streaming and with messaging infrastructure and storage. 
• Experience in CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins and source control such as GitHub.
• Have a strong desire to mentor the careers and development of other engineers. 
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.