Lead Data Platform Engineer — Real-Time Ops

easyJet holidays; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Pension 7%

Private medical insurance

Share options

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Flight discounts

Annual leave

Job summary

easyJet holidays is seeking a senior Data Platform Engineer to drive the design and delivery of our Operational Holidays Data Model. You will build reusable data assets across customer, booking, flight, and transfer domains and collaborate with developers to enable full production usage.

You will lead a team of Data Engineers, implement monitoring patterns, and manage governance to meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and running bespoke OLTP systems with high concurrency and reliability.
• Experience with a range of SQL tools and data streaming technologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining API endpoints and data interfaces for developers.
• Ability to establish ETL/ELT tooling (Dagster, dbt, AWS Glue, Airflow).
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to translate goals into data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of the Operational Holidays Data Model.
• Build reusable data assets across domains with developers for production use.
• Design monitoring and maintenance patterns for reliability and low downtime.
• Prioritise data engineering initiatives across product and dev teams.
• Lead and develop a team of Data Engineers and platform developers.
• Ensure governance and regulatory compliance across the data estate.
• Manage platform usage and costs with the platform team.
• Support ad hoc analysis and model development as needed.

Skills

OLTP design

Stakeholder collaboration

Data governance

Cloud data concepts

Tools

Postgres

DuckDB

Databricks

AWS Aurora

Dagster

dbt

AWS Glue

Airflow

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Job description

easyJet holidays is seeking a senior Data Platform Engineer to drive the design and delivery of our Operational Holidays Data Model. You will build reusable data assets across customer, booking, flight, and transfer domains and collaborate with developers to enable full production usage.

You will lead a team of Data Engineers, implement monitoring patterns, and manage governance to meet regulatory requirements.