We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you'd prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we'll facilitate this wherever we can – whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.
About
At Holiday Extras, we’re creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, build their careers and reach their limitless potential. As a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025, we’re proud to offer a world of benefits designed to enhance your lifestyle and well-being. By joining our team, you’ll feel supported and rewarded every day.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to strengthen the backbone of our data platform and ensure our data is trusted, scalable, and ready for innovation. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design pipelines, model data, and act as a subject-matter expert in a growing and highly motivated team.
We are hungry to be at the forefront of innovation. Whether it’s new technology, tools, or techniques, we’re always exploring ways to surprise and delight our customers. We’re going all in on AI and personalisation and data is the foundation that makes it possible. From smarter recommendations to automated insights, we are investing across our business to make AI a core part of how we deliver for our customers. That’s where you come in.
Requirements
We know there’s no one-size-fits-all. You may bring strengths in:
Infrastructure & Platform Resilience: Airflow/Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub; Terraform (IaC); CI/CD; recovery patterns.
AI & Data Readiness: versioned, trustworthy datasets and pipelines that enable AI/personalisation (batch or near-real-time).
Security & Compliance: Data security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and compliance with GDPR/CCPA.
Everyone’s career path is individual and different, so this is just a guide. If your experience doesn't precisely match this, you’re encouraged to apply so that we can discover your unique talents!
We know your time is precious, so we keep our recruitment process as quick and easy as possible. If we believe you might be a match for a job you’ve applied for, you’ll enter our hiring process as follows:
Cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture is paramount for us.
Recognising we are all different, if for whatever reason you need us to adapt the process, please get in touch via recruitment@holidayextras.com.
Applications close: Sunday 15th March
We reserve the right to close this job before the closing date due to a high volume of applications, please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to be considered.
Benefits
We believe that holidays are the most precious time of all, so we create products, tech and services that make travel and holidays memorable and fun. We’re on a mission to be the only place to go for your holiday extras, offering unparalleled choice, value and service, turning our customers’ ordinary trips into extraordinarily good times.
At Holiday Extras, we’re creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, build their careers and reach their limitless potential. As a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025, we’re proud to offer a world of benefits designed to enhance your lifestyle and well-being. By joining our team, you’ll feel supported and rewarded every day. Learn more about our culture and benefits.