Senior Technical Lead, Marketing Technology & AI

11105 Expedia, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group, a global travel company, seeks a senior technical leader in Austin to scale software, data, and AI capabilities powering Digital Operations. You will supervise architecture, discovery, and production delivery while mentoring engineers and aligning multiple teams toward reusable APIs, data products, and scalable platforms.

This hands-on role emphasizes security, governance, reliability, and operational readiness, ensuring partner experience and responsible AI deployment across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and delivering production software, data, ML, or AI-enabled systems.
• Senior technical individual contributor, technical lead, staff-level engineer, principal consultant, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Go.
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery for software, data, ML, and AI solutions.
• Build production-quality services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automation, and AI-enabled applications.
• Design and implement LLM-enabled capabilities and intelligent assistants.
• Connect marketing technologies and data platforms into end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, design sessions, and documentation.
• Evolve prototypes into production-ready solutions with governance and reliability.

Skills

Senior technical leader

Programming languages

API design

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

AI/ML experience

Mentoring engineers

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Job description

About Expedia Group

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you’ll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy.

Our five Behaviors—Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together—help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the team

Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners—including hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations, and other travel businesses—deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We support partner growth and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply, our advertising and travel media network, and affiliate solutions. Within Supply Marketing organization, the Digital Operations team enables marketing teams to plan, activate, personalize, measure, and optimize digital experiences at scale. We operate across web, email, SMS, push, paid media, audience activation, experimentation, and measurement, connecting people, processes, platforms, data, and AI into a reliable operating system for partner-facing marketing.

About the role

We are looking for a senior technical leader to help build and scale the software, data, automation, and AI capabilities that power Digital Operations. This role sits at the intersection of marketing operations, product, analytics, data, engineering, and enterprise technology. You will turn operational pain points and ambiguous business needs into durable technical solutions that improve campaign velocity, execution quality, audience readiness, personalization, measurement, and team productivity.

You will lead technical discovery and architecture, build and integrate production capabilities, and establish repeatable patterns that allow Digital Operations to move faster without compromising security, privacy, reliability, governance, or the partner experience. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will be expected to prototype and deliver solutions directly, while also setting direction, aligning stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and helping partner teams adopt common platforms, APIs, data products, workflows, and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery for software, data, machine learning, and generative AI solutions.
• Build production‑quality services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automation, and AI‑enabled applications that improve campaign execution, personalization, audience activation, measurement, and productivity.
• Design and implement LLM‑enabled capabilities, including retrieval‑augmented generation, intelligent assistants, agent workflows, tool calling, context design, evaluation frameworks, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Connect marketing technologies, enterprise data platforms, analytics systems, experimentation platforms, APIs, and AI services into reliable end‑to‑end solutions.
• Translate business and analytics questions into measurable technical outcomes, defining success metrics, data requirements, instrumentation, and feedback loops.
• Serve as the technical lead for complex, cross‑functional initiatives by clarifying ambiguity, making architecture trade‑offs, sequencing delivery, and unblocking partner teams.
• Help teams adopt reusable APIs, data products, AI capabilities, engineering patterns, and development practices.
• Evolve successful prototypes into production‑ready solutions with clear ownership, documentation, governance, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, design sessions, code reviews, technical demonstrations, and documentation.

Experience and Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and delivering production software, data, machine learning, or AI‑enabled systems.
• Experience as a senior technical individual contributor, technical lead, staff‑level engineer, principal consultant, solutions architect, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Go.
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, data pipelines, and event‑driven architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with data engineering, analytics engineering, experimentation, measurement, or ML/AI systems.
• Experience building or deploying AI‑enabled applications, including LLM applications, RAG, agents, workflow automation, model evaluation, or intelligent search.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into technical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct reporting responsibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with marketing technology, customer data, digital experience, campaign management, CRM, advertising, personalization, or lifecycle marketing.
• Experience supporting B2B, partner‑facing, or travel‑related digital experiences.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience designing governed, permission‑aware, privacy‑conscious data and AI solutions.
• Experience defining AI evaluation methods, quality metrics, guardrails, human review, and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Field Engineer, solutions Architect, technical consultant, startup engineer, or founding engineer.

What success looks like

You help TPM digital experience teams adopt reusable software, data, and AI capabilities faster, with less duplicated effort. Your solutions connect technical delivery to measurable outcomes such as improved campaign velocity, audience quality, personalization, conversion, efficiency, and marketing productivity. You establish responsible practices for security, privacy, observability, testing, governance, and human oversight.

Salary

• The total cash range for this position in Austin is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00.
• Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
• The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $171,500.00 to $240,000.00.
• Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $274,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
• The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00.
• Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
• Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and perks

• Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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Learn more at Expedia Group

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