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. Were building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to team
Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including Employee Communications, Finance, Traveler and Partner Service Platform, Legal, People Team, Inclusion and Diversity, and Global Social Impact and SustainabilityThe Global Financial Technology organization is a strategic partner for all finance functions and a service delivery organization that ensures finance initiatives/dependencies are completed on time and within budget. As a part of the Financial Planning and Reporting team you will get to work on engineering financial data that forms the backbone of our core FP&A processes for Expedia Group.
In This Role, You Will
Lead a team of Data Engineers to design and build robust, scalable data solutions, datasets, and data platforms. Translate business requirements into efficient, well-supported data solutions that seamlessly integrate with the overall system architecture, enabling customers and stakeholders to effectively address customer needs through data-driven insights. Participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.Produce comprehensive, user-friendly architectures for Data Warehouse solutions that seamlessly integrate with the organization&aposs broader data ecosystem. Design, create, manage, and utilize large-scale data sets. Accountable for leading the design and delivery of scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes within the data lake platform. Own Roadmap development, partner with product managers on roadmap, capacity planning, and feature rollout. Drive Business alignment, tie technical work to financial outcomes (cost savings, efficiency, accuracy).
- 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.
- Define team goals and align them with business outcomes.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity.
- Drive continuous improvement by anticipating bottlenecks and removing blockers.
Experience And Qualifications
- 8+ years (Bachelors) or 6+ years (Masters) 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.
- Experience with resource allocation, capacity planning, and balancing FTE vs. contingent staff.
- Skilled at evaluating and addressing team skill gaps.
- 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.
- Technology: Must have experience with Apache Spark, Java/Scala, Hive/RDBMS, Code deployments on AWS/Kubernetes, Git version control, SQL. Good to have experience with Airflow, CI/CD, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes/Docker, Apache Kafka/Flink
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.Expedia Group&aposs 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. 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Groups Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless youre confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
