At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and deliver data products that power analytics and AI across a global business.
- Company: Join a century-old travel company transforming experiences worldwide.
- Benefits: Hybrid work, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and career development.
- Why this job: Shape the future of data in travel and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in data engineering, SQL, Python, and cloud platforms like Snowflake.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
For over 100 years, we’ve been bringing the world closer together by crafting journeys that create lasting memories, lifelong friendships and meaningful cultural connections. Across more than 70 countries and our award-winning brands, we design and deliver travel experiences that go beyond sightseeing - they change perspectives.
We’re building TTC’s Data & AI capability, and this role sits at the heart of it. You’ll design and deliver data products that power analytics, data science, AI and commercial decision-making across a global business, using customer, booking, digital, marketing, commercial and operational data. Working in a modern Snowflake ecosystem, you’ll partner with engineers, analysts, data scientists, Product and Architecture to solve complex business problems and create trusted, reusable data. With the platform still evolving, you’ll help shape standards, patterns and architecture, mentor others, and influence how the team works—while remaining hands-on with the technology from day one onward globally.
- Build scalable, production-grade pipelines and reusable data products that teams across the business genuinely rely on.
- Model our most important customer and commercial entities so the business works from one trusted version of the truth.
- Engineer solutions in Snowflake, SQL, Python and modern transformation tooling such as dbt.
- Raise the bar on testing, data quality, observability, version control and CI/CD, and make good practice the default.
- Tune workloads for performance, resilience, scalability and sensible cloud cost.
- Partner with Data Science, Analytics, Product and Architecture to unlock advanced analytics and AI use cases.
Substantial data engineering experience in a sophisticated, production-scale environment.
Deep, hands-on expertise in SQL and Python.
Strong Snowflake experience, or equivalent depth in another modern cloud data platform.
A proven track record designing ELT and ETL pipelines and analytical data models.
A genuine commitment to data quality, testing and observability.
Sound engineering judgement, knowing when to build for the long term and when to ship.
Experience in an agile, product-led delivery environment.
Exposure to data products that support data science or AI use cases.
Curiosity about travel, hospitality or global consumer businesses.
If you want to build the data foundations behind how millions of people see the world, we would like to hear from you.
Senior Engineer, Data Engineering in London employer: The Travel Corporation
The Travel Corporation is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation in the heart of London. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will have access to ongoing training and development opportunities while enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work environment. Join us to be part of a team that values your contributions and supports your professional journey in enhancing our financial systems.
