Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Expedia Group
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Team description
The Business Performance Engineering team supports a variety of analytics capabilities including a high volume of daily ETLs, various data products for analytics and business teams, and trusted data sources to serve a variety of data consumer groups at EG. We work extensively with data producing teams across the company as well as data analytics consumers to provide clear, accurate, and actionable data resources. We provide data engineering technical expertise to support data consumers to analyze business performance at every step of the traveler journey from visit to booking, the product experimentation impact on conversion, and financial key performance indicators.
What you will do
Technical Expertise: Strong in multiple programming languages and data technologies; responsible for architectural decisions, system design, and domain ownership.
Operational Excellence: Advocates for and implements best practices in testing, monitoring, alerting, data validation, and performance optimization.
Strategic & Business Alignment: Partners with product and business teams to align technology initiatives with business outcomes, including cost optimization and roadmap planning.
Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence: Works across teams and senior leadership to drive process improvements, share domain knowledge, and influence technical direction.
Mentorship & Talent Development: Develops team culture, supports professional growth, and builds a diverse talent pipeline through coaching and structured feedback.
Domain Knowledge & Innovation: Applies deep industry knowledge to improve systems, recommend frameworks, and stay ahead of trends in data engineering and cloud technologies.
Who You Are
8+ years (Bachelor’s) or 6+ years (Master’s) in data engineering.
Strong in multiple technologies, data platforms, and cloud services.
Proven experience in mentoring, project leadership, and team enablement.
Skilled in data modeling, streaming, validation, and performance tuning.
Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management.
Experience managing distributed teams and large-scale projects.
Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and culture.
Leadership & People Management: 3+ years managing teams of 6–10+ data engineers, including hiring, performance management, and mentoring across multiple global locations.
Project & Program Delivery: Led 3+ multi-quarter data engineering projects, overseeing execution, cross-functional collaboration, and alignment with product roadmaps.
Accommodation requests
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