Senior Data Architect and Team Leader (m / f / d)

Company Description

Omio’s vision is to enable people to travel seamlessly anywhere and however they choose.
We are bringing all global transport into a single distribution system and creating end-to-end magical consumer journeys.

With Omio you can compare and book trains, buses, ferries and flights anywhere in Europe, the US, and Canada with one simple search, on mobile, app or desktop. By offering transparent pricing and easy booking, Omio makes travel planning simple, flexible and personal.

We have the largest source of travel inventory, with 1000+ suppliers operating in 39 countries, providing ticketing and journeys to overt 900m+ users every year. Our offices are based in Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London.

We are a growing team of more than 400 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who share the same vision: to create a single tool to help send travellers almost anywhere in the world.

Job Description

You will also be leading a small team of 2 (an engineer and an architect, both based in Berlin) and working closely with the VP Data and Analytics to deliver on the roadmap for our data strategy.

You will be responsible for:

• designing, building and maintaining our pipelines and warehouses/lake houses;
• tracking data quality and health;
• ensuring appropriate availability and latency for our data products;

This is a predominantly hands-on technical role (50%) with 30% spent consulting with the wider business on their data needs and 20% as a team leader.
Key requirements of the role:

• Lead the Architecture and Engineering function, managing the team, dealing with workload management, performance and personal development.
• Design and build highly-scalable data models establishing a coherent, single-source of truth for Omio data.
• Establish governance processes around access control and reference- and master- data management.
• Manage our data pipelines and data quality infrastructure, ensuring high accuracy and low latency.
• Work with Analytics Engineers to define and establish non-functional requirements for production data products.
• Manage our GCP estate, tracking usage and costs.
• Own the data tool stack, ensuring high productivity and a great developer experience for all our data practitioners.

Qualifications

The ideal profile for this role will be someone who:

• Has extensive experience of delivering complex data architectures within GCP
• Has deep knowledge of multiple approaches to data modelling across relational and non-relational approaches.
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities of working with very large, volatile and heterogeneous datasets.
• Is able to communicate complex technical concepts in simple terms, to build consensus and bring people with you.
• Are fluent in English; additional languages are always valued at Omio
• Is a team player with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills 
• Has a solution oriented approach to problem solving
• Key technologies: GCP (BigQuery, Looker, Airflow, dbt, Docker, SQL, Python, Terraform)
• Experience in large-scale data processing with Apache Spark or similar technologies, and proficiency in Scala, Java, or Python

Additional Information

What’s in it for you? #LifeAtOmio

This role is based on-site at Omio's modern & friendly head office in Warschauer Platz, giving you a great environment to learn, grow and develop your career, surround by like minded colleagues, this role also offers flexible working, 50% home/office. 

• Have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, we are changing the way people travel, and you too can have an impact on this ride.
• A competitive and attractive compensation package
• A diverse team of more than 45 nationalities

Diversity makes us stronger

We value diversity and welcome all applicants regardless of ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age or disability.

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