Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Hybrid (UK-based) | Permanent | Product Engineering

Starting salary £50,000, with scope to increase based on experience and suitability

Your next chapter

This opportunity has arisen due to an internal promotion, reflecting the career development opportunities available at Travel Chapter and the growth of our Product Engineering team.

We're a data-led business, and data plays a critical role in helping us make better decisions, create exceptional experiences for our guests and property owners, and operate more effectively across the organisation.

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help shape the future of our data platform. You'll play a key role in designing, building and evolving the systems, pipelines and models that power reporting, analytics and data-driven decision-making across the business.

This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, influencing technical direction and taking ownership of solutions from design through to production. You'll work closely with teams across Data, Product and Engineering, helping us build a modern, reliable and scalable data platform while supporting the growth of engineering capability within the team.

The role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines, ETL processes and data models that transform data from across the business into trusted, accessible and actionable datasets.

You'll contribute to architectural decisions, improve engineering standards and help ensure our data solutions are scalable, maintainable and aligned to business needs.

Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll work with stakeholders across the organisation to understand how data is used, identify opportunities for improvement and deliver solutions that create real business value.

You'll also play an important role in mentoring other engineers, sharing knowledge and helping shape how we continue to evolve our data engineering practices.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
• Making and documenting architectural and data modelling decisions
• Developing robust data models and database structures for analytical and operational workloads
• Building reliable data solutions that support reporting, analytics, operational processes and future data products
• Championing engineering best practice across SQL, Python, testing, documentation and code review
• Reviewing technical designs and code produced by other engineers
• Identifying and addressing technical debt while driving continuous improvement across the platform
• Optimising data solutions for performance, scalability and reliability
• Ensuring data quality through appropriate validation, monitoring and testing processes
• Improving observability and monitoring to support a highly reliable platform
• Collaborating with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Diagnosing and resolving production issues and implementing preventative measures where appropriate
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers to help raise capability across the team
• Keeping up to date with developments in data engineering and evaluating opportunities to improve our technology stack
• Participating in the team's out-of-hours support rota when required

What we're looking for

Essential

• Strong commercial experience in Data Engineering, ideally at Senior level
• Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade data engineering solutions
• Advanced SQL skills and a strong understanding of database technologies
• Strong Python experience for data engineering workloads
• Excellent understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modelling principles
• Experience designing, building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Experience working with modern cloud data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing and version control practices
• Strong understanding of data quality, reliability and observability
• Experience troubleshooting production and performance issues
• Ability to make, document and communicate technical decisions effectively
• Experience coaching or mentoring other engineers
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Experience with Snowflake, dbt and/or Fivetran
• Experience working with AWS and Glue
• Experience with MySQL or SQL Server
• Experience integrating with Salesforce
• Familiarity with JSON and common data integration formats

The skills that matter here

• Ownership – you take responsibility for delivering high-quality outcomes and seeing solutions through from idea to operation
• Pragmatism – you balance technical excellence with business priorities
• Communication – you're able to explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaboration – you enjoy working with people from different disciplines to solve problems
• Continuous Improvement – you're always looking for ways to improve systems, processes and ways of working
• Curiosity – you're interested in understanding the wider business context and how data can create value
• Quality Mindset – you care about reliability, maintainability and building solutions that stand the test of time

Why join Travel Chapter?

We're proud to be a B Corp certified, people-first business, combining local expertise with innovative technology to create unforgettable holiday experiences.

You'll join a collaborative and supportive engineering environment where your work has visible impact across the organisation. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to influence the direction of our data platform, work with a broad range of technologies and help shape the engineering standards and practices that underpin our future growth.

Most importantly, you'll be joining at an exciting time. With this role becoming available through an internal promotion, you'll be stepping into a team that values development, progression and giving people the opportunity to grow their careers.

Ready to apply?

If you're an experienced Data Engineer looking for an opportunity to build scalable data solutions, influence technical direction and help shape the future of a growing data platform, we'd love to hear from you.