Director, Data Engineering

The Expedia Group Marketing Channels and Technology is on a journey to empower Marketing teams to make data-backed decisions to optimize for customer experiences and marketing decision. As part of that journey, we are creating a unified marketing data sets providing visibility, and optimization tools in partnership with program, product and finance. Our marketing platform helps ensure we build a tech optimized customer experiences while improving our unit economics.

We are looking for director of data engineering for marketing data engineering and intelligence group who can help design and build the long-term architecture for the various components of our marketing data ecosystem, provide technical leadership to a team dedicated to driving technology innovation for enabling faster and smarter decision making. You will have the opportunity to participate in a large variety of exciting and challenging projects and work with our exceptional team of technology professionals who believe in building the next generation capabilities that will power global travel. You will be leading a group of engineers with different experiences in the team and evangelize engineering best practices across the organization. Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance.

What you’ll do:

• You will lead accomplished engineering teams and ensures the successful execution of new ideas or approaches

• Evangelize cloud, devops best practices by building cost conscious technical solutions. Create a multiplier effect using simple, elegant and cost effective business solutions

• You will have broad knowledge of the entire product and in EG's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies enabling you can help with any component, or type of issues

• Engage with stakeholders across engineering teams and C-level executives to help with understanding cost and figuring out cost optimization opportunities

• You will determine different phase milestones and priorities in collaboration with product management peers

• You will remain informed on industry trends. Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them

• You will bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Report on team status faithfully and listen for suggestions to improve

• You will review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles

• You will guide employees and managers in the development of team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assessing individual and team performance
  

Who you are:

• 10+ years software development experience in an enterprise level engineering environment demonstrating increasing levels of technical leadership

• 5+ years’ experience of managing big data engineering experience with excellent understanding of delivering Data and ML projects

• Candidates with digital marketing background would be a huge plus

• Outstanding communication and organizational skills - able to translate between technical and business functions, bring forward a vision or opinion that can push the boundaries of innovation

• Experience architecting, developing, and successfully delivering complex, large-scale systems

• Good hands-on big data eco-systems like Spark, Hive, Presto, Kafka, Airflow, NoSQL Datastore, REST API

• Data-native; can read and write complex SQL in your sleep

• Strong, multi-year experience with at least one BI platform - e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI

• Be comfortable working across countries and time zones on a daily basis

• Ability to lead multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize decisions and tasks and work in a fast-paced, changing environment

• Relentless passion for delivering technology and experiences that help customers and developers

• Ability to mentor team of mixed experience, some are senior to you and help in their career progression

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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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.View our full list of benefits.