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We’re seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join our Performance Marketing Technology team in Barcelona (Hybrid) to drive the evolution of our marketing data ecosystem. Our mission is to build and operate the high-scale infrastructure required for our AI-driven growth strategies. Working in a fast-paced Agile environment, you will collaborate closely with other Data Engineers, Performance Marketing managers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists to turn complex data into data-driven solutions.
Why eDreams ODIGEO
Join the world’s leading travel subscription platform.
Millions of customers every year across 44 markets – 5 brands – over 7.7 million Prime members since launching in 2017.
More than 100 million searches per day on our websites – more than 6 billion AI daily predictions
Over 1,700 employees – More than 60 different nationalities from all continents – 99% permanent contracts
We’re the world’s leading travel subscription platform. We pioneered Prime, the first and largest travel subscription program, which has topped over 7.7 million members since launching in 2017. Prime members are subscribed to global travel, gaining access to a comprehensive multi-product offering for all their travel needs—including hotels, rail, flights, dynamic packages and car rental, among others— compounded by industry-leading flexibility features and exclusive, member-only benefits. This entire Prime experience is powered by a proprietary, industry-leading AI platform that delivers a smarter, hyper-personalised service and comprehensive travel experience globally to its members.
What you will do:
The Role’s Key Responsibilities and Tasks
As an eDOer, you will have clear objectives, great challenges, and a clear overview of how your work contributes to the global company project and its customers. As a Lead Data Engineer in the Performance Marketing team, you will be in charge of:
- Deliver Scalable Data Infrastructures and tools: Design and development of high-volume pipelines and tools at speed, to support and directly impact the success of the Performance Marketing Team.
- Drive Technical Roadmap: Help define the long-term technical strategy for the Data Engineering team, build solutions that are modern, maintainable, and aligned with industry trends in Big Data and Cloud.
- Stakeholder Alignment & Discovery: You are skilled at navigating diverse perspectives to build technical consensus and uncover opportunities. You possess the ability to communicate technical solutions clearly to colleagues in non-technical roles.
- Drive Business-Centric Analysis: Apply a strong analytical mindset to solve complex pipeline issues, ensuring that every technical solution is designed with the intention of maximizing business value.
What you need to succeed:
Good to have
Bring your unique perspective, speak up, and offer disruptive solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow while making a real impact on our team. Here’s what you need to succeed:
- Technical Ownership & Strategic Thinking: You have the ability to build/scale and deliver engineering solutions at speed. You can demonstrate the technical depth to stay ahead of Big Data and Cloud infrastructure trends and the practical wisdom to apply them to complex business challenges.
- Experience in Complex Data Initiatives: You provide technical guidance as well as hands-on development for large-scale data initiatives (ETL/ELT & Data Modeling, data applications, reverse ETL). You are capable of delivering strategic improvements to our data ecosystem that directly impact business performance.
- First experience with AI: You are able to comfortably leverage AI coding assistants to enhance the quality and delivery speed of your code.
- Data Orchestration: Proven experience using data orchestrators like Airflow and Dagster.
End-to-End Project Delivery: You successfully deliver high-complexity data projects involving multiple stakeholders (Data Science, Product, Marketing). You are skilled at monitoring progress and mitigating timeline or technical risks in a fast-paced environment. - Agile Mindset: Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. You are comfortable with iterative development, participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to deliver incremental value in a fast-paced setting.
- Mentorship & Feedback: You effectively give and receive feedback, including code reviews and data model deep dives. You enjoy mentoring other team members, coaching them to upgrade their technical skills and grow to the next level.
Strategic Communication: You can communicate complex data concepts and technical architectures to both technical and business stakeholders, establishing alignment within the broader organization. - Analytical Mindset: You possess a strong analytical mindset, proactively using data to validate hypotheses, ensure data quality, and solve intricate problems. You don’t just build pipelines; you understand the business value of the data moving through them.
- Team Player: You enjoy collaborating and sharing your skills and knowledge with others. You thrive in a multicultural environment and value diverse perspectives.
- Language Proficiency: You are proficient in English, allowing you to work and communicate effectively in our global and diverse workspace.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Applied AI Tools: Demonstrated comfort using practical AI tools such as Vertex AI or other AI-powered coding assistants e.g. CLine or Copilot, to accelerate development and debugging.
- AI-Driven Data Solutions: Curiosity and eagerness to explore, experiment with, and integrate emerging AI-driven solutions into data engineering workflows (e.g., automated data cleaning, anomaly detection, or predictive schema mapping).
- Experimentation Mindset: A proactive desire to test new technologies and frameworks. You view “AI-First” not just as a goal, but as a tool to enhance productivity and unlock new data capabilities.
- Adaptability and Learning Agility: Enthusiastic about continuously learning and quickly adapting to new AI features, LLM capabilities, and evolving data processing standards.
Tech Stack you will work with:
- Languages: Python and SQL (advanced)
- Transformation: dbt
- Orchestration: Dagster
- Cloud provider: Google Cloud
- Compute and Storage: Kubernetes, BigQuery, Cloud SQL
- AI/ML: Vertex AI
- Online Marketing APIs: Google Ads API, Bing Ads API, Meta Marketing API, TikTok API, Criteo API
- Data movement: Fivetran
What’s in it for you?
The best talent deserves the best benefits
At eDO, we want you to be a part of our success story and great culture.
Here’s what we offer:
- A rewarding Compensation package! 💥 Prime Plus membership, competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible benefits, performance-based bonuses, birthday day off, discounts and partnerships, relocation support and premium equipment with role-based selection options and device ownership through our equipment lifecycle program when it reaches its refresh cycle.
- Continuous learning to fuel your growth and explore new horizons! 📚 Learn and grow with free Coursera access, soft skills workshops, tech training, leadership development, and more. Plus, enjoy a great onboarding program.
- Grow opportunities to empower your career and unleash your potential! 🚀 Personalised career paths and the eVOLVE Program will help you discover, grow, and thrive. Internal mobility opportunities let you pursue horizontal career changes and promotions.
- Your Well-being is our priority. Embrace Freedom and Flexibility! 💙 At eDO, we value flexibility, employee care, and transparency. We offer a hybrid home-office model focused on outcomes. You’ll be able to find the right work-personal life balance that suits you best.
- Work hard, party hard! We believe in having fun and connecting with colleagues! 🎉 Join eDO for after-work events, padel tournaments, parties, and more. Create communities based on your passions, like sports and music. Come to work as you are, with no dress code, and enjoy free fruit, coffee, and tea at our offices.
- Enjoy a dynamic and healthy environment! 💫 Be innovative, take risks, and share your ideas. Our diverse and open-minded teams support high performance, learning, and growth. You’ll work in an Agile mindset environment with recognition at our core.
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If you are ready for a career opportunity with unmatched benefits, continuous learning, and a supportive work-life balance, look no further! Take your career to new destinations by applying now and help our diverse, inclusive, and passionate team shape the future of travel.
Apply now!
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Our people are the key to our success. Each one of them is unique in their own way and the respect for their uniqueness is and will always be a passion and motivation. Don’t meet every requirement? If you’re excited about this role but do not feel your experience aligns perfectly with all the requirements we strongly encourage you to apply nevertheless.
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