Senior Data Engineer

• Chiasso, Switzerland


• Full-time

Company Description

lm group is a publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry and we operate a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Every month, the Group touches 45 million users across all of its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) who search for and book their travel and leisure experiences with us. A team of more than 1,200 passionate people enjoy working with us, supporting our mission to provide a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

Job Description

Job Description
lm group is looking for a Senior Data Engineer Developer for its Data Analytics team based in Chiasso.

Key Responsibilities

• Full responsibility of Data Pipelines delivery inside Data Engineering Team of Lastminute.com. The candidate will have the possibility to work in a challenging environment, he will be able to demonstrate an End to End view of the data pipelines developed, taking specification from company stakeholders, ingesting data into the Data Lake, and transforming the data in structures for the final users [both on Data Lake and DWH]; the developed applications needs to be managed in day by day run. Pipelines can be 

  
  
  
  

  • On Vertica using Talend as ETL

  
  

  • On GCP using Dataflow, Spark, Big Query, Big Table, Scala

  
  


• Continuous improvement in delivery, applying engineering best practices to the development, the monitoring, the data quality of the data pipelines.


• Test the data and feel the responsibility of a data release, looking in the result as an experienced user

Skills and Experience
Essential

• 5+ years of experience in Data or related experiences in DWH and Data Lake




• Solid understanding of ETL\Data transformation and preparation, data modeling and data warehousing in modern data architecture having traditional SQL [DWH] mixed with Data Lake connected to DWH




• Strong analytical skills with working experience on gathering both functional and analytical requirements




• Ability to work independently with ambiguous technical specifications, with relational skills that permit to define and share clear, reachable goal with stakeholders




• Good planner and time manager, with a delivery oriented approach, with previous experience of leading small groups




• Good knowledge of advanced SQL Language




• Good knowledge of Data load and transform on HDFS cluster via Spark




• Good experience with Data Streaming with Pub\Sub




• Good experience with Scala




• Detail-oriented with a passion for technical quality and excellent client service




• Fluent in Italian and English is mandatory. Any other language is a plus

Desirable

• Knowledge of Vertica database




• Knowledge of Google Data Platform, especially on ingestion related component 




• Knowledge of Talend




• Previous experience on Agile methodology




• Experienced in challenging environment or consulting company following big projects




• Previous experience in a web based travel company