Data Engineer

About the Position

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our dynamic team at lastminute.com, a European leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. As a Data Engineer, you will shape our data models and drive business outcomes through data. This is a full-time position in the Data department.

Responsibilities

• Own the data model of your business area, including entities, granularity, dimensional models, metrics, and definitions.
• Define the source of truth and set the boundaries of the business area.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to co-own the KPI set and reframe questions when necessary.
• Perform analysis sized to the business area, balancing analysis and development tasks.
• Ensure trust in the numbers by building validation rules, monitoring models, and handling data issues end-to-end.
• Leverage learnings to benefit the entire department through documented models, shared glossaries, and AI context.

Requirements

Essential

• Solid, hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a similar data role.
• Real depth in dimensional modelling: grain, keys, slowly changing dimensions, and the ability to identify semantically wrong models.
• Advanced SQL and query optimization on a cloud or MPP warehouse (BigQuery or Vertica).
• Hands-on dbt experience for transformation and modelling, and comfort with orchestration tools (Airflow, Cloud Composer, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of a business area and the ability to connect data work to business outcomes.
• Track record of working directly with non-technical stakeholders, turning business questions into data requirements, presenting findings, and challenging the brief when necessary.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Strong Plus

• AI-assisted ways of working, including daily use of an agentic assistant for development and analysis.
• Python for automation and lightweight services.
• Data contracts, testing frameworks, or data observability tooling.
• Experience as the reference data person embedded in a business team.
• Semantic or metric layers consumed by BI tools and AI agents.
• Experience in the travel, OTA, marketplace, or another high-volume transactional business.

We Offer

• An inclusive, friendly, and international environment with colleagues from over 10 countries and 48 nationalities.
• A shorter working week (36 hours as full-time) with a half working day on Fridays.
• Flexible start and end times for the working day.
• The possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year, according to local regulations.
• Fri-Yays: a half day on Friday morning dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning, and training.
• Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms like O’Reilly, Udemy, Coursera, and our internal platform.
• 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes.
• Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues.
• Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares.
• Support through significant life moments with leave options in line with local laws.

About the Company

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost, and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalize, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. More than 1,700 employees spread across our offices worldwide develop our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Selection Process

• HR interview (10-30 minutes)
• 1st interview (Manager): soft skills + technical knowledge
• Test step online (technical evaluation, AI usage included)
• 2nd interview (Manager + team member): Test review
• Only for senior roles: final meeting (30 mins) with the Director
• Offer extended

(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Eligibility Criteria

By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorized to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.

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