Data Engineer

Company Description

Lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. 

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink". 

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know uniqueness drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange. 

Job Description

Lastminute.com is looking for a Data Engineer for its Customer team inside the Data & Analytics department.

The activities of the Customer team are aimed at achieving the following goals:

• Enhanced Customer Satisfaction: through a deep understanding of our customers, we strive to exceed their expectations, leading to greater satisfaction and loyalty
• Maximising Returns: by optimising our interactions and services, we aim to increase customer loyalty and lifetime value, ultimately boosting our revenue.
• Cost Reduction: our insights into customer behaviour and preferences enable us to streamline operations, reduce inefficiencies, and minimise unnecessary costs

The candidate will have the opportunity to become a key member of the team leveraging his/her engineering skills to acquire, manipulate, orchestrate and monitor data.

Data is at our core and its reliability and effectiveness have a direct impact on producing actionable insights and improving business performances

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze functional needs, raw data, and develop data dimensional models
• Design, build and deploy data pipelines with a focus on automation, performance optimization, scalability, and reliability aspects
• Help the business to understand the data and find insights that enable the company to take data-driven decisions
• Leverage data and business principles to solve large-scale web, mobile and data infrastructure problems
• Build data expertise and own data quality for your area

Skills and Experience

Essentials

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role in a fast-paced environment
• SQL language knowledge
• Experience with workflow management engines (e.g. Airflow, Google Cloud Composer)
• Experience in Data Modelling
• Experience with data quality and validation
• Experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• Experience working with cloud or on-premises Big Data/MPP analytics platform (e.g. AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery or similar)
• Ability to work creatively and analytically with a strong problem-solving attitude
• Fluent in both written and spoken English

Desirable

• Bachelor or master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or similar fields
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, R, Scala)
• Experience in analyzing data to discover opportunities and address gaps
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and end-to-end process optimization
• Experience with anomaly/outlier detection
• Familiarity with digital and e-commerce business
• Previous experience in the travel industry

Abilities/Qualities

• Problem-solving and decision-making skills and innovative thinking 
• Passionate about the digital world, ambitious and motivated with a can-do attitude
• High attention to detail and the ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time, successfully meeting deadlines
• Proactivity and strategic approach 
• Strong team player with a willingness to challenge existing processes and applications

Additional Information

About the team

We are a company distributed across major European countries, in a multicultural environment where the Pink spirit is lived boldly through asynchronous communications and live remote events, as well as hybrid office gatherings. 

Information sharing is crucial and, being a pure digital player, product management is at the heart of our business.

If you think we're a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying for the position.

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36 hours), with only four hours on Friday morning
• Enjoy focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for volunteering
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices