Principal Data Engineer

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world's leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact.

Requirements

You'll be responsible for collaborating with the engineering leadership group to lead and drive data best practices and data vision across engineering teams, providing mentoring and guidance to other engineers when required. This role will support the architecture team in building the modern data platform strategy and support their value stream in data solution architecture design. You're seasoned senior data engineer looking for a step up into principal level opportunities, this role will take you there.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Collaborate with architects and principal software engineers and provide technical expertise in selecting new or improving existing data platforms
• Work with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure data platform solutions are designed for performance, security, durability and scalability
• Lead the development and implementation of proof-of-concept / experiment projects to validate new data / database models and data platform solutions.
• Work with Engineering, Product Management and other business departments to achieve data extract, load, transform and visualisation needs
• Provide technical guidance to team members comprised of SQL developers / DBAs, data engineers and data / business analysts
• Develop new or improve existing complex SQL, PowerShell, Python, and Spark scripts used in both SQL-based and non-SQL-based OLTP and OLAP systems
• Align individual short- and medium-term tactical initiatives to long-term strategy
• Optimise the data pipelines and deployment pipelines to reduce cost
• Advocate for SQL and data engineering best practices

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TEAM

Benefits

At Serko, we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you will be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are :