Senior Data Engineer - Digital Telemetry & Analytics

CarTrawler group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CarTrawler, a leading global travel tech company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer for Digital & Behavioural Telemetry to own the engineering and evolution of telemetry that explains how customers interact with CarTrawler products and partner experiences.

You will collaborate with Product & Technology teams to ensure new features generate trusted, governed data and reusable analytics products across the business.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years' experience in data engineering, digital analytics engineering, product telemetry or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience engineering digital behavioural or telemetry data in production, using an event collection platform such as Snowplow, Adobe Experience Platform , Google Analytics or a comparable technology.
• Experience with event tracking and telemetry concepts such as schemas, enrichments, event contexts, processing pipelines and warehouse data models.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, with hands-on experience using cloud data platforms and transformation tooling; such as Snowflake, dbt, AWS or similar technology stack.
• Experience designing event taxonomies, schemas, data contracts, versioning and metadata for web or product telemetry.
• Strong understanding of digital analytics and conversion measurement, including behavioural funnels, search and booking progression, attribution, journey progression and behavioural KPIs.
• Experience modelling high-volume event data into reusable facts, dimensions and data products that support both detailed investigation and governed business reporting.
• Understanding of RUM(real user monitoring) and observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, correlation, instrumentation and the relationship between technical performance and customer experience.
• Experience implementing data quality, automated testing, schema-change controls, privacy, classification, access, retention and lifecycle practices for telemetry or behavioural data.
• Strong stakeholder and partner communication skills, with the ability to explain complex event and telemetry data to analysts, engineers, product teams and non-technical consumers.
• Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD, automated testing and documentation practices, with a track record of improving engineering standards and enabling others to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Shapes the unified behavioural data models that connect customer actions and journey stages, enabling consistent analysis of how users move through digital experiences across partners, products and channels.
• Partner with P&T engineering teams to define how product and web events are tagged, named, contextualised and versioned, with reusable event taxonomies and data contracts.
• Engineer and evolve governed data products that measure performance across key digital journeys and funnels, including session, search, booking progression and revenue outcomes.
• Turn product, engineering and business data needs into reusable, governed data structures for downstream consumption, contributing definitions and KPI guidance to central repositories.
• Connect behavioural and customer-journey data with real user monitoring and operational telemetry to understand how performance affects experience and conversion.
• Set data quality, testing, privacy, access, retention and lifecycle expectations for telemetry data and ensure data products are monitored and safe to evolve.
• Act as senior SME for analysts, product teams and partners on telemetry, tagging and data roadmaps to quantify friction, conversion and performance.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Snowplow

Event telemetry

Observability

RUM

Tools

Adobe Experience Platform

Google Analytics

Snowplow

Job description

CarTrawler, a leading global travel tech company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer for Digital & Behavioural Telemetry to own the engineering and evolution of telemetry that explains how customers interact with CarTrawler products and partner experiences.

You will collaborate with Product & Technology teams to ensure new features generate trusted, governed data and reusable analytics products across the business.