Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to team:

We create and deliver an aligned, dedicated marketing strategy to fuel each Expedia Group brand's success. Since our travelers interact with us through our brands, we have a brand focus in our marketing, while leveraging the scale and efficiency we’ve built in functional expertise. 

Expedia Group has a mission to become the world’s travel platform. As part of that effort, Expedia Group’s Data organization is building a common platform for all Expedia brands to capture and enrich data to power AI, data science, and programmatic platforms.

The Sr. Manager role will be part of the Marketing Data Engineering (MDE) team in the Expedia Group Data organization. MDE will provide programmatic access to clean, fast, and authoritative marketing data sources for the entire company. We will create robust enriched data products at rest (attribute stores, periodic facts, aggregates) and in near real time with multi refresh cadence to enable self-service analytics.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a team of vibrant data engineers to ensure project deliverables by setting the team vision and determining high level design choices. 

• A strong product mindset along with experience in delivering large complex projects collaborating with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders that are technology, operations or business focused.

• Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance through robust validation, monitoring, and logging mechanisms.

• Mentor engineers and help them establish career development plans.

• Incubate new ideas and shape the engineering roadmap for the team.

• Support Expedia Group’s product and business teams’ specific data needs on a global scale 

• Close partnership with internal partners from engineering, product, and business 

• Promote good development methodologies via code reviews, great software design, brown bags, or tech talks. 

Experience and qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing teams of 5-10 engineers.

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong track record of building scalable data platform and products on AWS.

• Proficiency in Java, Spark, and Scala. 

• Professional experience working with large-scale distributed systems.

• Professional experience with database systems, both relational and NoSQL databases.

• Ability to handle ambiguity and work with product and business partners to collect non-technical requirements to design and build scalable experience solutions.

• Ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment.

• Experience with real-time data processing and building streaming applications are a plus.

• Strong communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.

• Experience with ML model implementations are a plus.

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