Senior Data Engineer

Our Mission

iSeatz provides digital commerce and loyalty tech solutions that enable travel and lifestyle bookings to global customers including American Express, Expedia, and IHG Hotels. Our proprietary platform processes more than $4B a year in transactions.

We have a history of long-term trusted relationships and innovation that drives tangible value to our customers through a customizable, scalable, and secure platform, a global third party marketplace, and loyalty integration.

We aspire to put our customers at the heart of every decision and exceed their expectations with best-in-class solutions and business-value innovations.

What you’ll do

The Senior Data Engineer reports to the Senior Director of Data Solutions and works with other Data Solutions team members, as well as enterprise architecture and domain stakeholders to design, develop, and maintain scalable data infrastructure.

In this role, you will design, build and maintain reliable data pipelines for trusted data sources and products to enable efficient processing, storage, and analysis for strategic decision-making and insights generation; key components of our organizational data strategy.

Your Impact

• Maximize the value of our data assets by implementing robust ETL/ELT processes that turn systems of record into accessible, centralized sources of truth.
• Facilitate data product thinking with strategic domain driven design of our cloud data warehouse.
• Manage and maintain data warehouses, databases, and other data storage solutions.
• Support critical data governance policy decisions.
• Optimize performance of our cloud data warehouse for efficient utilization of compute and storage resources.
• Implement data quality and monitoring processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Collaborate with business users to gather requirements and develop trustworthy data products.
• Work closely with software engineers to integrate data pipelines with existing systems and applications.
• Develop comprehensive system & process documentation as an integral component of our organization's overarching data strategy.
• Mentor team members to share data engineering expertise across the Data Solutions team.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in data engineering and recommend new tools and methodologies to improve data infrastructure and processes.

What you bring to the table

• 4+ years of experience as a data engineer or similar role.
• Strong Python & SQL skills for data manipulation and integration tasks.
• Experience working in cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake), understanding best practices for data modeling, schema design and optimization techniques.
• Experience in designing, building, and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines to process large datasets.
• Comfortable using version control, branching, and collaboration via Git.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable adapting in an evolving environment.
• Experience supporting analytics applications and data science teams.

Bonus points

• Experience as a Snowflake engineer/admin.
• Familiarity with Docker, AWS DMS.
• Experience implementing metadata management.
• Experience applying data security and privacy regulations.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and algorithms.

Location

This role is remote and can be located anywhere inside the continental United States. iSeatz is a New Orleans-based company with Central Time Zone business hours, but feel free to work from your home office, from the beach, or from the cottage you rented for the summer!

What we bring to the table

iSeatz is among the most prominent tech employers in New Orleans. With employee engagement and community impact at the forefront of our culture, we have been named a 2020 Top Workplace by nola.com and honored as one of the CityBusinesses’ Best Places to Work since 2008, including a 1st place award in 2020, at the height of a global pandemic.

iSeatz is committed to ensuring all employees are given every opportunity to succeed and grow within and beyond their current roles and responsibilities. We work diligently to build and maintain trust among our workforce in everything we do, beginning with fostering an autonomous and thought-provoking work environment.

Micromanagement does not have a place at iSeatz. You will be trusted to use the knowledge and experience that brought you to iSeatz in tandem with the support of your manager and those around you, as needed, to deliver a high-quality end product.

We value a diverse workplace

We are committed to building and maintaining a culture of support, awareness, and sensitivity about the importance and impact of our differences and leverage these differences to build a stronger iSeatz.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the People Operations Team at

A note about joining our workforce

At iSeatz, we’re looking for candidates who are genuinely excited about joining our fast-paced and motivated team. If you’re not enthusiastic about the opportunity to be a significant contributor; to lead with confidence, discipline, impact, thoughtfulness, innovation, and accountability; and to bring your passion and drive for this specific role to the table, we ask that you kindly refrain from applying. On the other hand, if this all sounds like you, we can’t wait to hear from you! Come help us shape the future of the travel and loyalty tech industry.