Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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Senior Manager, Data EngineeringAre you fascinated by data and building robust data pipelines which process massive amounts of data at scale and speed to provide crucial insights to the end customer? This is exactly what we, the Data Product Engineering (DPE) group in Expedia, do. Our mission is 'transforming Expedia’s lodging data assets into Data Products that deliver intelligence and real-time insights for our customers'. We work on building data assets and products to support a variety of applications which are used by 1000+ market managers, analysts, and external hotel partners.What you'll do:

• Leading the communications domain data requirements
• Stakeholder management for this domain with diverse partners and dependencies
• Leads and Conducts day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area.
• Shares deep domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.
• Anticipates and recognizes bottlenecks in work processes between teams and makes suggestions for ongoing improvement.
• Leads implementation teams and ensures the successful execution of new ideas or approaches.
• Coordinates with team to define the measures of success for process improvements. Develops product phase-out planning in line with the product roadmap.
• Determines different phase milestones and priorities in collaboration with product management peers.
• Creatively tests and maintains software applications and related program supporting large scale real-time & batch data pipelines procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design and data requirements of customer.
• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices for designing large scale real time and batch data pipelines/systems.
• Has very broad knowledge of the entire product and data pipeline, and can help with any component, or type of issues. Is well versed/has up-to-date knowledge of Data platforms and frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies.
• Represent the team which would be the first point of contact for all data on Marketing communications data.
• Be responsible in leading the Data Quality for the domain and the underlying data.
• Conveys the right information to the correct parties to ensure that proposals for improvements are given the proper consideration and technical issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Contributes to product development by identifying industry change, listening to customer needs, capturing feedback and communicating that feedback to the business
• Examines inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourages engineers to improve them
• Bridges the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology workforce
• Reports on team status faithfully and listens for suggestions to improve lagging project work
• Reviews the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identifies staffing and talent resources to fill project roles
• Develops action plans for optimal resource utilization and manages resource usage among team
• Encourages others to assess the potential impact of resource decisions related to efficiency and cost reduction
• Builds and Develops Individual & Team Talent
• Stays informed on industry trends
• Guides individual contributors and managers to develop team and individual goals, provides regular and specific feedback, and assesses individual and team performance
• Encourages and supports professional development of individual contributors and managers

Who you are:

• 8+ years of experience in Data and Software Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in People Management, managing more than 12+ member data engineering teams which includes both full time employees and vendors.
• 5+ years of experience in impeccable stakeholder management experience across geographies.
• Experience building teams, understand talent hiring philosophy.
• Executes capacity planning/allocation of teams of 10 or more
• Leads more than 3 multi-quarter data engineering projects
• Experienced in working in at least 2 multi-quarter data engineering projects primarily in Java/Scala and good knowledge of SQL etc.
• Built high performance, scalable data products in Streaming and Batch paradigm preferably in Kafka, Spark, SQL etc.
• Drive technical design end to end of at least 3 data engineering projects
• Able to justify technology choices to technical and non technical observers
• Mentors team members. Defines teams goals and how they fit a business need across multiple teams working together
• Delivers solutions to business problems spanning teams
• Delivers and influences product roadmap, working in collaboration with product team

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