The Senior Associate WFM Manager is a people leader in role, responsible for leading a WFM team, enabling them to be successful and delivering against the prescribed KPIs. The Manager enables their team and team members by providing coaching and feedback, building strong professional relationships, maintaining a regular flow of communication, and providing direction, support, and development. The Manager also contributes to the overall WFM performance and culture, collaborating with peers and broader colleagues to ensure WFM delivers to the company and CEG objectives. The Senior Associate WFM Manager is expected to be an SME in Workforce Management, having a good knowledge of WFM concepts, to support the team with challenges and capability and to adequately represent WFM, to senior stakeholders. **ACTIVITIES PERFORMED ON THE JOB:** * **Coaching and giving feedback:** * Coaching and providing feedback within WFM (usually one-on-one) constructively and creatively, to enable colleagues to perform at their best. * Review performance of individuals and team using performance reports/dashboards, observations, buddying, and reviewing system audit reports. * Manage all underperformance, using the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) process where appropriate. * **People leadership:** * Build healthy and professional relationships with team members. * Establish and nurture a culture of performance excellence, open feedback, collaboration, recognition, and quality delivery of outcomes. * Organize team building activities that will engage people in teamwork and create a positive work environment. * Ensure the team is well supported to perform their day-to-day activities, including: * ensuring appropriate real-time support is available, taking and managing escalated issues. * Providing approvals as part of the business process (e.g. absorption). * Ensure team schedule is maintained to a high standard to provide stakeholder support and manage team requests and unplanned absence, in line with process. * Provide clarity on performance vs targets, and any other team or group objectives. * Use reward and recognition as part of motivating the team. * Conduct team meetings: sharing important information, updates, performance progress, and broader company updates. * Ensure your team is connected to the company’s WFM objectives and strategy. * Be an example to the team through behavior, living up to the Agoda values and behavior standards expected of people leaders. * Collaborate with other departments, working together to enable overall success (e.g. WFM teams, CEG Operations Teams, CEG Teach Team). * **Reporting & data analysis:** * Work with data from various sources to analyze and observe performance of CEG SLAs and gain insights as a basis for feedback and change suggestions. * Prepare and present team performance data, challenges, issues, ideas, and opportunities. * **Collaboration:** * Collaborate with local WFM team: * On team performance: providing updates about the team, traffic, projects, concerns, challenges, and opportunities. * Participate actively in leadership meetings: share what works well for you, provide feedback and input on decisions or updates, and be open and constructive about what is not working well and how the group can improve. * Stay up to date with products, news, goals, decisions, projects. * Collaborate with other teams: * CEG Operations Leadership and Management. * CEG GSV. * **Personal Management:** * Remain up to date with important company/team/department updates, requirements. * Act in the best interests of the organization: ensuring that we operate with absolute integrity and compliance with all legal obligations or compliance requirements. * Be an active and constructive Agoda team member: Always being respectful to others and seeking to be better together. * Aim to understand, then meet and exceed the expectations agreed with your manager. **EXPECTATIONS – BEHAVIORS AND VALUES** **Behavior****Definition** **_Continuous improvement_**Regularly identify improvement opportunities, quantify them, and follow through to measurable/demonstratable outcomes. Embraces both successes and failures to learn and maximize the benefits. Embraces and drives change, is open and supportive of improvement opportunities identified by others. **_Deliver better together_**Collaborates and engages with colleagues and broader Agoda teams to share ideas and learn and work together toward shared ambitions. Is respectful to colleagues, open to different perspectives /viewpoints, and positively contributes to discussions. **_Enable others` success_**Is committed to building and nurturing a culture of frequent feedback, coaching and career development. Provides clarity on accountability, goals, and progress. Regularly takes the opportunity to connect and align teams and team members to the Agoda/CEG strategy, making these relevant and digestible. **COMPETENCIES REQUIRED** **Analytical Ability & Problem Solving**Can visualise, articulate, conceptualise, or solve both complex and uncomplicated problems using the data available. **Decision making ability**Set a course of action purposely chosen from different alternatives to achieve company objectives. **Effective communication**(Verbal and written)Delivers, receives, and interprets ideas and information, presents information appropriately to a diverse range of audiences, and influences partner decisions Excel/Power Point Skills **Flexibility and Agility**Can adjust behavior to new information and changing circumstances. Be open to new ways of doing things and always experiment with new methods. Works effectively in a dynamic environment. **KPI management**Create and execute a KPI plan designed to help achieve and evaluate success in reaching the company’s goals. **Listening and influencing**Practice attentive and active listening. Can influence strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action that will promote shared interests and business goals. **Process Improvement**Organise, evaluate, plan, and implement improvements in our internal and external processes and practices. Actively work on creating better processes once changes take place. **Reporting**Be able to confidently give a written account of business metrics, projects, and team performance based on data, observations, or investigations. **Result driven**Driving high standards to accomplish challenging goals. Works hard to achieve them. **Time / workload management & prioritization**Creating a work environment where tasks and responsibilities are accomplished successfully within the time available. **Coaching**Support and develop team members to achieve a specific personal and professional goal by guiding and training. **Develop and Manage team**Govern and coordinate the team to perform in their job. Learn the skills, potential, and ambitions of the team members and define long term success. **Operational Planning & Coordination**Create and execute a detailed plan with the aim to provide a clear vision on how the team, department will contribute to the achievement of the company’s strategic goals **People training**Identify training needs, create, and develop training to help team members with specific knowledge or skills to improve performance in their current roles. **Presentation**Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. **Team level KPI management**Create and execute a team KPI plan designed to help achieve and evaluate success in reaching the company goals. **Qualifications, Experience and Trainings required:** **Qualifications**High level written & verbal language/communication skills. Intermediate or above computer literacy (MS Excel particularly), high level problem solving / analytical reasoning skills. High level stakeholder management skills. **Experience**6+ years of WFM experience Experience in coaching and developing, in a technical environment. Experience in delivering high-level business objectives or initiatives. **Trainings**OJT, WFM onboarding, RT Onboarding **Must have:** * Deep hands-on experience designing and configuring omnichannel routing strategies (email, voice, chat/messaging) using platforms such as Amazon Connect, Genesys Cloud/PureCloud, or equivalent CCaaS/ACD systems. * Proven ability to build routing logic from the ground up — including skills-based routing, IVR/call flows, queues, priorities, and escalation paths — based on complex, nuanced business requirements. * Strong understanding of contact center architecture (queues, agent skill profiles, SLAs, overflow/failover logic) and how to translate ambiguous business needs into scalable, technical routing designs. * Experience integrating routing platforms with CRM/WFM/reporting tools (e.g. Salesforce, Verint, NICE) is a plus. * Comfortable working directly with engineering/IT teams to implement and troubleshoot routing configurations, and able to independently own technical documentation of routing setups. We welcome both local and international applications for this role. Full visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available.

This role involves developing and deploying artificial intelligence solutions to solve complex business problems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement machine learning models that drive innovation and efficiency. The position requires a strong understanding of data science principles and the ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of AI projects, from data collection and preprocessing to model training, evaluation, and deployment in production environments.

Lead a team of Oracle Technical consultants delivering technical solutions for Oracle Cloud ERP implementations. Manage day-to-day activities of consulting engagements including process design, package implementation, and project reviews while providing technical guidance to junior team members. Support business development through proposal development and pursuit activities in collaboration with resources across service lines. Ensure successful integration of Oracle systems into client infrastructure and drive high-quality outcomes for stakeholders. Mentor diverse teams, align priorities with key objectives, and apply expertise in disruptive trends to recommend improvements aligned with leading practices.

The AI Expert (LLMs & Generative AI) is responsible for designing, developing, and scaling AI solutions that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and modern AI platforms to solve business challenges and create measurable value. This role works closely with business stakeholders, AI Business Partners, data engineers, and solution architects to translate requirements into production-ready AI applications, including copilots, intelligent assistants, agentic workflows, knowledge management solutions, and process automation use cases. The AI Expert evaluates emerging AI technologies, establishes technical best practices, ensures responsible AI implementation, and drives the adoption of scalable AI architectures aligned with enterprise standards, security requirements, and governance frameworks. Qualification: * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in software development, machine learning, data science, or AI engineering. * Strong expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, AI agents, and model orchestration frameworks. * Hands-on experience with leading AI platforms and cloud services such as Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent technologies. * Proficiency in Python and modern AI development frameworks, with a solid understanding of machine learning concepts, API integrations, MLOps, and enterprise solution architecture. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. * Experience implementing responsible AI practices, model evaluation frameworks, and production-grade AI solutions is highly desirable.

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get to Know our Team** Agoda’s FinTech teams build and operate the platforms that power our global financial ecosystem. From payments and reconciliation to tax, compliance, and financial reporting, these systems sit at the core of how we scale our business reliably and responsibly. As Agoda continues to grow across markets, products, and partner ecosystems, tax technology plays a critical role in enabling compliant, scalable, and efficient financial operations. Our teams work across product, engineering, finance, and architecture to design robust solutions that balance control, flexibility, and innovation. In this role, you will help shape the future of Agoda’s tax technology landscape, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to build resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that support a fast-moving global business. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Platform Architect to define and drive the technical direction of Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem within FinTech. In this role, you will own the architecture vision and roadmap for scalable, secure, and compliant tax platforms that support Agoda’s global financial operations, high transaction volumes, and evolving regulatory needs. You will work closely with Finance domain experts, product managers, engineering teams, and fellow architects to translate complex tax rules and business requirements into robust technical solutions across Agoda’s internal systems, data flows, tax engines, and selected third-party platforms. As a senior technical leader, you will operate from strategy through implementation detail: guiding architectural decisions, challenging trade-offs, coaching engineering teams, and ensuring our tax platforms are resilient, adaptable, observable, and built for Agoda’s scale. You will help balance compliance and governance with engineering velocity, cost efficiency, and long-term platform quality. **This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand. (Relocation support is provided)** **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Shape the technical direction, architecture strategy, and long-term roadmap for Agoda’s Tax technology ecosystem, aligning Finance, regulatory, product, and engineering goals. * Own the architecture of mission-critical platforms and capabilities, ensuring they are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and adaptable to Agoda’s global scale, with the key starting focus being the Tax platform. * Design end-to-end solutions across internal systems, tax engines, APIs, data flows, and selected third-party platforms where they create clear business and technical value. * Work hands-on with engineering teams on key technical decisions, system design, implementation trade-offs, proof-of-concepts, and critical architecture components. * Lead architectural reviews and provide expert guidance on system design, integration patterns, reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness. * Translate complex tax rules, compliance requirements, and financial workflows into clear technical models that engineering teams can build, evolve, and operate effectively. * Analyze Agoda’s current Tax technology landscape, identify systemic risks, duplication, inefficiencies, and modernization opportunities, and define practical transition paths toward the future state. * Establish and evolve architecture principles, engineering standards, documentation, and governance practices that improve quality without slowing delivery. * Drive improvements in quality, velocity, cost efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity across Tax-related systems and adjacent FinTech platforms. * Mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, and technical leads, raising engineering fundamentals across design, code quality, testing, observability, and production ownership. * Communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Technology. * Effectively utilize AI to achieve all the above, including contributions in building the solutions you helped design. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * **10+ years**of experience in software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles, with a strong track record of designing and evolving complex production systems. * **3+ years**of hands-on experience delivering tax-related technology projects across direct or indirect tax domains, or closely related finance technology domains, including building or evolving tax platforms. * Strong understanding of Tax technology domains such as VAT, GST, corporate tax, withholding tax, compliance workflows, tax calculation, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. * Proven ability to shape technical strategy and architecture roadmaps across multiple teams, systems, or business domains. * Strong hands-on engineering background, with deep understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, reliability, observability, scalability, and operational trade-offs for mission-critical systems, including high-volume transactional platforms at enterprise scale. * Ability to translate complex business, finance, and regulatory requirements into clear technical models, architecture decisions, and executable engineering plans. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders. * Proven ability to mentor and influence senior engineers, Staff engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority. * Strong ownership mindset, with a track record of identifying systemic risks, reducing duplication, improving engineering quality, and driving pragmatic modernization. **It’s Great if you have:** * Experience designing or modernizing global tax platforms that support multiple jurisdictions, products, currencies, and regulatory models. * Deep experience with tax engines or tax automation platforms such as Avalara, Vertex, OneSource, or equivalent custom-built solutions. * Experience with ERP systems, financial ledgers, invoicing, billing, reconciliation, or other finance platform integration points. * Familiarity with event-driven architecture, streaming, or middleware integration technologies * Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns, distributed systems, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless platforms, or large-scale service-oriented architectures. * Understanding of data privacy, auditability, financial controls, and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, or equivalent regulatory controls. * Experience leading large-scale platform modernization, proof-of-concept work, or architecture transformation across multiple engineering teams. * Exposure to large-scale global commerce, travel, payments, marketplace, or financial technology environments. #Bengaluru #SãoPaulo #Delhi 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This role involves providing end-to-end advisory services and overlaying industry insights onto research and analyses to formulate innovative technology-enabled solutions. You will manage assessment and business requirements gathering processes, review functional specifications, and support solutions prototyping and architecture redesign. The position requires engaging with clients through discussions, presentations, and workshops to validate technology solutions and perform work product walkthroughs. You will also develop trusted client relationships, ensure quality assurance and timely delivery, and actively coach project teams to maintain operational excellence. Additionally, you will meet clients regularly to define problem statements, analyze key priorities, and develop responses to client enquiries.

You will provide end-to-end advisory services by overlaying industry insights and research analyses to formulate innovative technology-enabled solutions that address client business needs. You will manage the assessment and business requirements gathering processes, review functional specifications against problem statements, and support solutions prototyping and architecture redesign. You will engage with clients through discussions, presentations, and workshops to validate technology solutions and perform work product walkthroughs. You will develop trusted relationships with clients and gain recognition for technical and advisory capabilities. Additionally, you will provide quality assurance to ensure timely delivery of work products and actively coach project teams to maintain operational excellence. You will meet clients regularly to define problem statements, analyze key priorities, and collaborate with senior team members to develop responses to client enquiries and formulate proposals.

We are looking for an experienced SAP Basis and Security/Authorization Lead to drive large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation and deployment programs. This role involves leading SAP Basis operations, environment governance, and security management across a complex landscape. You will work closely with global and local stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable SAP solutions that support business transformation objectives. You will manage environment readiness, transport strategy, release management, and production deployment activities. The position requires overseeing SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) activities, including deployment governance, monitoring, and defect management. You will also lead security and authorization design, role management, and Segregation of Duties (SoD) compliance to meet enterprise standards.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure, cloud platforms, and deployment pipelines for Qonnect's Industrial IoT, AI, and software applications. You will collaborate with software developers, data/AI engineers, and project managers to ensure systems are deployed rapidly, securely, and stably to support real-world industrial customer usage. Your role involves managing cloud environments, automating deployment processes, and ensuring high availability and reliability of the platform.

You will provide end-to-end advisory services by overlaying industry insights and research analyses to formulate innovative technology-enabled solutions that address client business needs. You will manage the assessment and business requirements gathering processes, review functional specifications against problem statements, and support solutions prototyping and architecture redesign. You will engage clients through discussions, presentations, and workshops to validate technology solutions and perform walk-throughs of deliverables. You will develop trusted relationships with clients and gain recognition for technical and advisory capabilities. You will provide quality assurance to ensure timely delivery of work products and actively coach project teams to maintain operational excellence. You will meet clients regularly to define problem statements, analyze key priorities, and work with senior team members to develop responses to client enquiries and formulate proposals.