Lead Data Engineer

Job description

***This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN, McLean, VA, or Dallas, TX***

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that’s creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Data Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Enterprise Architecture & Data team reporting to the Director Data Engineering, you will build cloud-based solutions to support Global and APAC Analytics, Data Science, Software Engineering, and our Compliance/Regulatory functions' ability to improve products to position Hilton as a creative industry leader along with ensuring the appropriate protections to our data. You will apply technical and business ability to transform raw data into useful data systems.

HOW WE WILL SUPPORT YOU

Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:

·  Go Hilton travel program: 100 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
·  Hilton Shares: Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
·  Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
·  Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
·  Paid Time Off (PTO)
·  Learn more about the rest of our benefits

At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities and programs through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate. 

**Available benefits may vary depending upon terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of the plans.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.

What your day-to-day will be like:

·  Apply industry principles, methodologies, and tools throughout the application lifecycle to transform the design specifications into data pipelines to address customer needs.
·  Implement testing strategies for these solutions to ensure they align with Hilton standards and provide the appropriate controls and safeguards to ensure the quality and security of our data.

How you will collaborate with others:

·  Collaborate with technical product owners, data architects, data modelers, developers, run operations in both Americas and APAC region to develop enterprise data solutions on both Global AWS and China AWS/Alibaba cloud environments.
·  Collaborate with APAC during late evening calls
·  Transition the final solutions to our Operations team for ongoing support by defining standard operating procedures and conducting knowledge transfer sessions.

What projects or deliverables you will take ownership of:  

·  Multiple initiatives under EAD, building data pipeline in both Global and APAC region to send and receive data following the compliance standards and enforce data governance policies.
·  Develop and support large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks with high quality and efficiency on multi-cloud environment

WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT

You have these minimum qualifications:

·  Five (5) years of work experience in Technology or a related field
·  Four (4) years if working experience in AWS or Alibaba cloud environment
·  Three (3) years of experience with Big Data technologies, including but not limited to Hadoop, Spark, Python, Glue, Lambda, AWS Lake Formation, Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Hive
·  Two (2) years of enterprise design and development building cloud data warehouse
·  Two (2) years of experience with ETL or ELT technologies
·  Two (2) years of software/platform design and implementation experience
·  Ability to travel up to 10%

It would be useful if you have:

·  Bachelor’s Degree, or Associate’s Degree plus 6+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience 
·  Seven (7) + years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
·  Fluent in both English and Mandarin
·  Exposure to Big Data technologies such as Spark-SQL, Data Frame, Pair RDD's, Spark YARN, EMR
·  Any Licenses or Certifications or Trainings in AWS, Alibaba, Talend or Informatica
·  Hands-on experience developing ETL jobs (batch and real-time) for structured and unstructured data using Scala, Python, Lambda, MapReduce, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Glue, AWS EMR, Step Functions, Apache Kafka, Airflow
·  Hands-on experience in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, My SQL, PostgreSQL, Athena, and Redshift
·  Experience implementing solution in of cloud Data-Lake, Warehouse, Marts and Master Data environments.
·  Experience in RDBMS and Columnar databases including SQL and performance tuning the database for large datasets

WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON

Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands . Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!

It is the policy of Hilton to employ qualified persons without regard to color, race, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medication conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, status as a protected veteran, disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable law, genetic information, or any other protected group status as defined by and subject to applicable federal, state and local laws. 

We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law.  Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.