Lead Data Engineer, loveholidays
In office Tue-Thurs
3 days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
Holiday booking service
Job no longer available
Holiday booking service
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
In office Tue-Thurs
3 days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Loveholiday's mission is to create the ultimate online travel experience.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership experience within a high-autonomy and accountability environment
- Experience with software development tools and practices applied to the data engineering domain
- A proven track record of building and optimising data infrastructure at scale
- Technical expertise: Deep understanding of data orchestration, ingestion, processing and storage mechanisms, along with knowledge of modern query engines
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Extensive experience with modern data technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Airflow, Spark, Kafka)
Desirable
- Familiarity with data visualisation tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau)
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of dimensional modelling and data warehouse design
- Experience with dbt (data build tool) for data transformation
- Familiarity with Monte Carlo Data or similar data observability tools
- Experience with Airflow for workflow orchestration
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical blog posts
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
What the job involves
- Drive the company's overall technical strategy and data governance policies
- Own the evolution of our Data Mesh architecture, promoting distributed data ownership
- Lead a team of talented data engineers, fostering their growth and ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions
- Represent loveholidays data engineering externally by writing and presenting
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making across the organisation
- Implement best practices in data engineering to ensure our data systems are scalable, reliable, and fast
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and processes
- Optimise data storage and retrieval systems for efficiency and cost-effectiveness
- Mentor and guide your team of data engineers, providing technical leadership and code reviews
- Partner cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to identify and fulfil data requirements, while championing best practices, data tooling and processesWork on improving data quality, accessibility, findability and usability across the organisation
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex data-related issues
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in data engineering, particularly within the Google Cloud ecosystem
Application process
- Intro to loveholidays with our Talent Team
- Intro with Head of Engineering & Data Engineer (Face to face or virtual)
- Take-home test, followed by an interactive discussion of the solution
- People management + culture and values
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Travel, both domestic and overseas, has been a huge part of the British economy since the late 20th century. In 2019, UK residents spent £43 billion on foreign holidays - almost double the amount spent a decade before.
Despite travel companies suffering considerable reputation damage back in 2020, as they struggled to refund customers whose booked holidays were suddenly cancelled, the appeal of companies like loveholidays to holidaymakers will undoubtedly endure seeing as they make the process of booking holidays much easier.
In the nearest future, loveholidays will need to focus on maintaining its reputation, especially given the wide array of direct competitors who could steal market share. At present, however, loveholidays is still one of the fastest growing online travel agents. If it can keep up the practices which have brought it success over the past 10 years, loveholidays is still in a good position to keep its growth strong for few years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2016
$4m
EARLY VC
May 2011
$2.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.7m
Company benefits
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Company pension contributions at 5%
- Individual training budget for courses, seminars and memberships to professional bodies
- High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
- Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
- Hybrid working with 3 days working in our office (London) and 2 days WFH per week
- Sustainably sourced fruit baskets in the office kitchen
- Increased annual leave for long service
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Enhanced maternity pay = 6 weeks of full pay and 20 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay = 4 weeks of full pay
Company values
- We are entrepreneurs - We’re proudly commercial, we do more with less, we own the decisions we make and the actions we take
- Everything is written in pencil - As we grow, we think smaller, act quicker and continuously evolve the way we organise our work
- We organise for speed - A flat structure with small teams, allows us to move quickly
- We believe in Team - We’re all in it together
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jonny Marsh
(Non Executive Director)An engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Jonny is also the founder and ex-CEO of nmqa Ltd and co-founder of travelmatch. He served as Loveholiday's COO until 2019.
Alex Francis
(Non Executive Director)Founded travelmatch in 2007 and then loveholidays in 2012, quickly becoming the fastest growing business in the UK by 2019. Now acting as a non-exec for the business since stepping down as CEO in 2020.
People progressing
Joined as UX/Design Manager in 2011, promoted 3 times in 10 years to current position of Lead User Researcher, having previously worked as Senior Product Designer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at loveholidays
Clodagh Beatty (Head of Talent Management, Learning & DE&I)
- We recently hired a Head of L&D, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support us in our ongoing commitments to creating an inclusive environment, as well as providing growth opportunities for all our employees
- We want all applicants to feel they can belong at loveholidays
- We have employees from all walks of life and we are only interested in assessing your skills, attitude and talent!
- We support Employee Resource Groups - recently launched our Women's Network at loveholidays
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