Data Engineer

Hybrid - 3 days per week in our Luton office

easyJet holidays is the UK's fastest growing tour operator, created to make brilliant holidays more affordable and more accessible. Since launching in 2019, we've already taken almost two million customers away on unforgettable breaks, expanded across Europe, doubled our team year on year, and been named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work and Best Workplace in Travel for both 2023 and 2024.

We're building something special - and data sits at the heart of it.

We're looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our growing Data team and help build our brand new Operational Data Platform. This platform underpins our applications, services, and decision making across the business.

You'll work alongside experienced senior engineers, gain exposure to modern data engineering practices, and help build high quality, scalable data products that power the holidays experience end to end.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to deepen their technical skills, work on meaningful data challenges, and be part of a team transforming the travel industry.

• Contributing to the design and delivery of the new Operational Data Platform
• Building and maintaining ETL/ELT workflows
• Supporting data governance, compliance and platform standards
• Optimising data processes and pipeline performance
• Collaborating with product teams, engineers and developers across the organisation
• Supporting ad hoc analysis and development tasks where needed

Essential skills:

• Strong Python and SQL abilities
• Experience building or maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., dbt, Airflow, ADF, Glue, Dagster)
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Good understanding of data modelling principles
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to translate business needs into data solutions

Nice to have (fully supported with training):

• Streaming tools (Kafka, Kinesis, EventBridge)
• API integrations
• Basic Node.js/TypeScript

• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & performance share schemes
• Life assurance
• Brilliant staff travel perks

This is a full time role based in Luton, working 40 hours per week with hybrid working - 3 days a week in our Luton office. Occasional travel may be required.