Company Description
Join our Luxury Escapes Data Team, making sure our platform gives our customers the best luxury travel experience possible!
Job Description
About the job
Luxury Escapes is one of the world’s fastest growing travel websites, with more than 8 million members, recently winning the National Travel Industry Award for Most Outstanding Online Travel Agency! We are growing rapidly, and seeking a Data Engineer to join our team due to growth!
We're at the forefront of innovation, utilising advanced, open-source technologies like Snowplow and DBT to drive our data infrastructure.
You'll have the unique opportunity to work with emerging technologies, shaping the future of our data ecosystem.
If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of data engineering and contributing to the success of a forward-thinking company, we encourage you to apply and be part of our journey!
Working at Luxury Escapes
Our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays. We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.
Our Sydney office is on Kent Street - a short walk from Wynyard station and close to great cafes in Barangaroo.
** Luxury Escapes is an in-person company. We work and collaborate together, face to face in our Barangaroo office.**
About The Role
You will contribute to the design and development of our data systems, helping to collect, process, store and retrieve data. You should be passionate about working with huge datasets, eager to learn and contribute to real-time streaming and customer behaviour analytics.
You will be someone who loves to bring data together and work on innovative Data Engineering solutions to answer business questions.
You should have expertise in the creation and management of datasets, and the proven ability to translate the data into meaningful insights through collaboration with Data Analysts and Data Scientists.
In this role, you will work on the development of data engineering solutions to complex questions, collaborating closely with team members and contributing to strategic initiatives.
What You’ll Do
Contribute to the design, operations, and improvements for the organisation's data warehouse infrastructure
Engineer solutions to aggregate and automate large-scale data flows from varying sources
Collaborate with Engineers, Analysts and Scientists in the organisation to construct complex data sources for algorithms and machine learning models
Explore and learn the latest technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency
Build real-time streaming from internal and external sources to provide insights into the business
Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers.
Qualifications
Key Skills Required:
Highly experienced in SQL - with demonstrated ability to craft efficient and optimised queries
Experience in data engineering, business intelligence, data science, data modelling or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
Knowledge of batch and streaming data architectures
Experience with GCP/AWS
Excellent communicator with colleagues from engineering, analytics, and business backgrounds
Demonstrated strength in data modelling, ETL development, and data warehousing
Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles
Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
Desirable Skills
Experience with Snowplow
Experience with Meltano and Fivetran
Experience with DBT
Experience using big data technologies (BigQuery)
Experience with Python
Knowledge of Docker, Terraform and Iaas will be a bonus!
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
We Consider Our People One Of Our Most Important Assets, And We Want Our Team To Love Their Working Lives! When You Work For Luxury Escapes, You Can Look Forward To
Excellent Remuneration package
20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences
Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week
Health and Well-being programs
Hackathons!
1/2 day of bonus birthday leave
A super collaborative team that enjoys creating great platforms
If you’re interested in the role but don't check every box, apply anyway, we’d love to hear from you!
We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. You'll find a collaborative, inclusive, and respectful workplace here at Luxury Escapes, and we are proud to celebrate who you are. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview.
As a 2026 Circle Back Initiative employer, we're committed to responding to every applicant.