Associate Data Engineer

Our Marketing and Loyalty team is the strategic force behind United’s industry-leading brand and experience, supporting revenue growth by turning customers into lifelong United flyers. Our marketing communications, market research and brand teams drive travelers’ familiarity and engagement with the United brand. Our product, design and service teams bring the signature United brand to life in our clubs and onboard our aircraft, ensuring a seamless, premier experience. And when customers choose United again and again, that’s because the loyalty team has been hard at work crafting an award-winning program. Our loyalty team manages United MileagePlus®, building travel and lifestyle partnerships that customers can engage with every day, and works with our Star Alliance partners to ensure United can take you anywhere you want to go.

Job overview and responsibilities

The Data Engineer role will work closely with a team of business analysts, data scientists and software developers to design, provision and implement data solutions to assist our business in setting up systems for data driven growth. Overall, this position will strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with the organization’s business goals.

• Gather and organize data from various sources to build data systems and pipelines using Big Data & cloud technologies like AWS Glue, S3, Athena, Lambda, Spark, Redshift
• Combine raw information from different sources including but not limited to on-prem/cloud RDBMS, files & API’s based data providers
• Evaluate business requirements and objectives for a given use case implementation
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability to ensure a standardized data layer is being created on the data lake in AWS. Make use of deequ framework to create a DQ layer
• Conduct data analysis and report on results in a clear and effective manner to business analysts