Why loveholidays?

At loveholidays, we’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

About the team

Data Engineering at loveholidays underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe by providing a self-service data platform that enables data assisted decisions at scale. Our systems ingest data from hundreds of sources, query petabytes of data daily from tens of thousands of BigQuery tables containing trillions of rows.

We actively talk about technology and apply our technology principles that have guided us this far.

We have ambitious plans to expand across Europe by leveraging the best minds and technology.

The impact you’ll have

• 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

Your day-to-day

In this role, you can expect to:

• 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

Your skillset

• Leadership experience within a high-autonomy and accountability environment

• Software development tools and practices applied to the data engineering domain

• Proven experience: 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)

Perks of joining us

• Company pension contributions at 5%.

• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.

• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.

• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.

• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.

• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.

The interview journey

• 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