TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. Commercial is a global team within TUI technology responsible for deliveries of applications that support the planning, pricing and reporting of all the commercial aspects of the TUI business.  We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Agile Delivery providing services across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands.

 We are looking for a talented and dedicated technical enthusiast to join newly formed Commercial technology organisation, in particular the systems that support the leading edge and bespoke Yield Management and Pricing processes.

 The Senior Data Engineer is a practitioner and an advocate of state-of-the-art data engineering practices. Working in an agile environment and keeping up with the ever-evolving technical landscape the Senior Data Engineer is a lifelong learner and likes to think outside the box.

 ABOUT THE JOB:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are a go-to person working as part of a cross-functional team or a practice team that enables data engineering skills and capabilities across a whole domain. Being an enthusiast in data engineering, with an advanced DevSecOps mindset, you’ll use your excellent collaboration skills to work with your team to deliver the best answers to our customers’ needs with full responsibility for its data flows, from design to operation. You care diligently about the quality of your work, including proper documentation and security aspects.

 You will use your deep technical skills to work closely with your colleagues to ensure an optimal data delivery architecture which is consistent throughout ongoing highly complex projects. You will work on data collection, data pipelines, data delivery to other systems and building an advanced core data warehouse. Furthermore, you support your fellow Data Analysts and Data Scientists on data engineering tasks and work as a team to deliver data driven solutions.  With your advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems you are able to take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across your domain.

 You are able to verbalise your thoughts and ideas and take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. Together with the domain’s teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you will research, evaluate and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively. You take part in Communities of Practice, including collaboration in shared initiatives to grow your experience.  You regularly coach, guide and develop more junior colleagues. 

 You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level.  You love to learn and acquire new skills and keep up to date with latest developments in your focus areas.

 Security is part of everyone’s job. At TUI, we practise secure behaviours first in everything we do.

ABOUT YOU:

• Experienced in design, implementation and use of different database structures
• Outstanding SQL and data profiling skills, in particular utilising Snowflake or similar databases
• Strong hands on experience with modern data storage systems (Snowflake, AWS RDS, S3 experience is a significant advantage)
• On the spot conversion of high-level business & technical requirements into technical specs
• Experience of data types including JSON and XML is a plus
• Strong Hands on experience of Python and/or Java is a significant advantage
• Strong skillset in using cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
• Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
• Demonstrating true engineering craftsmanship mindset
• Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration, and great teams 
• Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills 
• Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering (e.g. like described in the ACM Code of Ethics) 
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner 
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous

ABOUT THE OFFER
 

• Competitive salary
• Pension scheme, life assurance and options to buy shares
• Generous holiday entitlement & holiday discounts
• Forward thinking ways of working
• TUI time off, purchase of additional holiday entitlement
• Excellent rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers