Manager, Data Engineering

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Expedia Group (EG) is revolutionizing travel through the power of technology. Across the globe, our brands make travel easier for millions of people who want to step out of their homes and into the world. We’re a hardworking and focused teamfrom all over the world - with 20,000 + employees, in over 30 countries. Together we seek new ideas, innovative ways of thinking, diverse backgrounds, and approaches. Our Mission as EG’s Customer Data Platform team isto build the travel industry's premier customer data platform to delight the users' trips experiences through identification, personalization, AI, recommendations, and targeted marketing.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of software development for your team, including participating in technical designs, implementation, functional analysis, and release for mid-to-large sized projects. You will also be responsible for on-time delivery of features, setting timelines, coaching/mentoring your team, and hiring.

What you’ll do:

•Creatively build, test and maintain software application platforms that support scalable and highly-performant distributed systems for processing large volume real-time data

•Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns for large-scale distributed data processing

•Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability, data quality checks)

•Anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and make suggestions for ongoing improvement

•Determine different phase milestones and priorities in collaboration with product management peers

•Conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area

•Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization

•Gain insight into how customers utilize technology for their competitive advantage and apply this knowledge to suggest areas for improvement

•Bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology workforce

•Review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles

•Guide employees and managers to develop team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assess individual and team performance

•Craft the culture of your team by building team rituals, processes and practices that build strong team bonds and an open trusting environment where diverse viewpoints, opinions, approaches, candid conversations, and critiques can happen

•Actively build space for feedback and contribution from the team to improve EG’s data engineering culture and practice

Who you are:

•Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

•5+ years of experience

•Very keen to work and guide a team of engineers and help them grow.

•Possess extensive experience in a JVM-based programming language (e.g. Java)

•Implementation experience with components of distributed data architecture (streaming events, data lakes, distributed data processing, data quality, query engines)

•Experience in micro-service architecture, asynchronous and event based architecture design, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale

•Understanding of HTTP and RESTful web services

•Mentor team members

•Defining teams’ goals and how they fit a business need across multiple teams working together

•Delivering solutions to business problems spanning teams

•Delivering and influencing product roadmap, working in collaboration with product team

•Skilled in communication, documentation, project management

•Experience in using or building data platform capabilities is a bonus

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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