Data Engineer II - People Data Platform

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Data Engineer II - People Data Platform

Introduction to team

The People Analytics team at Expedia Group is a rapidly growing team that uses data to understand our organization’s health and to define and shape the employee experience. We focus on using data-driven approaches to make better decisions about workforce management and we play a crucial role in shaping HR strategies by analyzing trends, providing insights and recommending actionable changes.

Make an impact!

The Data Engineer II in the People Data Platform team will develop and deploy scalable analytics solutions that embed seamlessly into the day-to-day of our employees. Your main responsibility will be working with the team and our customers to maintain and expand our next-generation data architecture in addition to maintaining and growing the existing People Data Business needs. Moving to our new architecture and is key to enabling our mission to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

In this role, you will:

• You will build/extend toolsets, create/maintain tables & calculations, and create systems documentation.

• You will work with Expedia Group Data Platform Team for our design, building, and enhancement of our People Data Platform.

• You will utilize CI/CD frameworks to optimize and automate ingestion, cleaning, and export processes for a variety of data sources into and out of the People Data Platform.

• You will drive data investigations across organizations inside and outside of HR to deliver a resolution of technical, procedural, and operational issues.

• You will advocate for enhancements within our systems that will allow the People Data Platform to run efficiently with high quality data. 

• You will assist in managing and influencing large scale projects to set the future direction for people data and analytics across Expedia.

Experience and qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating large data platforms.

• 4+ years leading complex data warehousing and analytics projects, including using AWS technologies— S3, EC2, EMR, and other data technologies.

• Deep expertise with Tableau BI design & development (requirements gathering/development/QA/UAT/deployment).

• Strong familiarity with People data and workforce data structures.

• Expert in SQL and relational databases (Trino strongly preferred).

• Expert is efficient & scalable database structures and database design.

• Experience with Java, Python, Spark, or similar programming languages.

• Experience in Cloud Data Technologies and optimizing Big Data is a plus.

• Experience in implementing CI/CD methodologies and working in Agile SCRUM

• Skilled at debugging and optimizing code and automate routine tasks (such as data validation).

Accommodation requests

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