Data Analytics Engineer, HolidayPirates
International travel company
Job no longer available
International travel company
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy to find the best travel deals.
Role
Who you are
- Strong SQL expertise and deep knowledge of data modeling principles
- Extensive experience with Google BigQuery
- Experience building production-grade data models
- Solid understanding of data testing & anomaly detection
- Experience with modern data stacks (Y42, dbt Cloud, Dagster, or similar)
- Ability to work with Python, set up API integrations and external connections
- Technical documentation literacy
- Good GIT and PR practices
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow or similar)
- Strong understanding of data reliability and monitoring
- Experience with A/B testing, funnel analysis, cohort analysis, CRO
- Hypothesis testing and structured analytical thinking
- Strong validation mindset (sanity checks, reconciliation, edge cases)
- Can complete analysis using several tools including GA4, BigQuery and Google Sheets
- Good data visualisation skills
- Solid understanding of GA4 events & BigQuery export schema
- Knowledge of attribution logic and conversion flows
- Ability to debug tracking autonomously
Desirable
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud literacy (understanding of IAM & Role-Based Access, Billing, Cloud Storage, Cloud Compute)
- Travel industry experience
- AI and automation frameworks experience
What the job involves
- As Europe’s favorite travel brand on social media, we’re charting bold new routes in data-driven innovation, and we’re looking for a Data Analytics Engineer to help steer the ship
- If you’re passionate about travel, thrive at the intersection of data modeling, web tracking, and business-facing analytics, and want to build scalable data products that empower teams across the company, we’d love to welcome you aboard
- As part of a growing HolidayPirates Data Analytics team, this role sits at the crossroads of data modeling, web analytics and advanced business analytics
- We’re looking for a skilled individual contributor who can independently own operational execution while collaborating closely on strategic initiatives
- You’ll design and own production-grade Data Models, contribute to scale our Data Platform, ensure Web Tracking consistency, and translate complex business questions into structured Analytical Solutions
- You think in terms of data products and data consumers, designing solutions that are scalable and reusable by the other teams
- Design, build, and own efficient, production-grade data models (SQL-native, BigQuery-centric)
- Deliver well-defined, tested, documented, and code-reviewed data products
- Implement robust orchestration, including setting up data tests, alerting and monitoring pipelines
- Connect APIs and external data sources into our Data Lakes and Data Warehouse
- Apply Git version control and PR practices
- Ensure consistency of event-based Web Tracking across GA4 and BigQuery
- Support peer Data Analytics Engineers and Web Analysts in debugging inconsistencies across frontend, backend, and analytics layers
- Work with attribution logic (UTMs, click IDs, conversion flows)
- Translate Marketing, Content, and Product raw data into actionable insights
Our take
On average, Brits spend 18 nights a year overseas, so it's no surprise that the travel industry is in as high demand as ever. Since its inception in 2011, HolidayPirates has established itself throughout Europe and the United States.
Due to its unparalleled social media audience, boasting 11+ million Facebook fans and 2+ million Instagram followers, HolidayPirates values itself for providing the "best value-for-money travel deals" which rapidly gained the company popularity and a faithful online following.
The company claims to only spend 7% of its marketing budget on traffic, showing how effective its social media strategy has been in generating an organic following. With services delivered in 7 languages and more than 9 million app downloads, the company is also seeing an acceleration of payment transactions which indicates the company's continued prominence in the market.
Kirsty
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Company
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours and fully remote working
- A MacBook (also for private use) as well as any other needed equipment including a very lovely remote IT support
- £100 equipment budget every month on top of our salary to comfortably work from home
- £45 tax free cash card per month
- Maternity leave for up to 52 weeks
- Legendary team and company events like summer parties, Christmas parties and more
- Mental health and relaxation sessions
- Further training budget to use as you choose
- Inspiring mates from all over the world
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Igor Simonow
(Co-Founder)Previously a 2018 cohort member of Entrepreneur First.
Sebastian Kaatz
(Co-Founder)Currently Co-Founder of Travel Pirates Corp, was the VP of Special Projects and Products at Holiday Pirates.
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