Data Engineer II

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Data Engineer II – Finance Business Intelligence

Introduction to the Team

Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including Employee Communications, Finance, Traveler and Partner Service Platform, Legal, People Team, Inclusion and Diversity, and Global Social Impact and Sustainability.

Expedia Group is seeking a skilled and motivated Data Engineer II to join our Finance Business Intelligence team supporting the Product & Technology Finance organization. In this role, you will help drive data infrastructure and analytics solutions that support strategic financial planning, reporting, and operational decision-making across the Global Finance community. You’ll work closely with Finance and Technology partners to ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and usability in support of Expedia’s business objectives.

As a Data Engineer II, you have strong experience working with a variety of datasets, data environments, tools, and analytical techniques. You enjoy a fun, collaborative and stimulating team environment. Successful candidates should be able to own projects end-to-end, including identifying problems and solutions, building and maintain data pipelines and dashboards, distilling key insights and communicate to stakeholders.

In this role, you will: 

• Own routine maintenance/support for existing Business Intelligence products (data pipelines, Tableau dashboards, and Machine Learning predictive forecasting models)

• Drive internal efficiencies through streamline code/documentation/Tableau development to maintain high data integrity

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with the team products (automation opportunities, optimizations, back-end data issues, data reconciliations)

• Proactively reach out to subject matter experts /stakeholders and collaborate to solve problems

• Respond to ad hoc data requests and conduct analysis to provide valuable insights to stakeholders

• Collaborate and coordinate with team members/stakeholders to translate complex data into meaningful insights, that improve the analytical capabilities of the business

• Apply knowledge of database design to support migration of data pipelines from on prem to cloud environment (including data extraction, ingestion, processing of large data sets) 

• Support dashboard development on cloud environment to enable self-service reporting

• Communicate clearly on current work status and design considerations 

• Think broadly and comprehend the how, why, and what behind data architecture designs

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems, or related field

• 2+ years experience in a Data Analyst, Data Engineer or Business Analyst role 

• Proven expertise in SQL, with practical experience utilizing query engines including SQL Server, Starburst, Trino, Querybook and data science tools such as Python/R, SparkSQL

• Intermediate visualization skills (Tableau, Looker, or similar) and excel modeling/report automation

• Exceptional understanding of relational and dimensional datasets, data warehouse and data mining

• Experience building robust data extract, load and transform (ELT) processes, that source data from multiple databases

• Demonstrated record of defining and executing key analysis and solving problems with minimal supervision

• Dynamic individual contributor who consistently enhances operational playbooks to address business problems

• 1+ year working in a hybrid environment that uses both on-premise and cloud technologies is preferred

• Experience working in an environment that manipulates large datasets on the cloud platform preferred

• Background in analytics, finance or a comparable reporting and analytics role preferred

Accommodation requests

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