Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.

What does a great Senior Big Data Engineer II do?

Travelport’s Big Data Engineers are tasked with developing systems that realizes the business value of the Data Science ML/AI models. Travelport has sophisticated Big Data Platforms in the cloud and on premise. We have Big Data, processing Terabytes of data daily, systems processing billions of transactions per day, and applications processing 10+k transactions per second. This role will aid in the creation of frameworks, data pipelines, model generation pipelines, and more. They also aid in developing streaming and batch data products. Travelport employees enjoy a collaborative environment and have many opportunities to learn from and share knowledge with other Travelport subject matter experts, architects, and business leaders.

Duties:

• Aid in building innovative platforms, frameworks, and tools to support all phases of delivering Data Value
• Aid in the implementation of AI/ML Models
• Build scalable, fault tolerant, observable data pipelines and services using tools like Kubernetes EKS, Prometeus, Grafana, etc
• Aid in systems optimization of streaming products, analytic platforms, and processing workflows
• Develop high performance, high volume, and saleable solutions utilizing various Cloud Managed Services, Kubernetes, In Memory Caching, Advance Algorithms, Treading, etc
• Implementation, and optimization of Data Infrastructure (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Pinot, Aurora, etc)

Main Accountabilities:

• Develop, document, and test big data solutions
• Install, integrate, and configure various technologies in the big data echo system
• Troubleshoot issues in big data framework
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to deliver software
• Learn continuously, leverage training resources and self-directed training, share knowledge and skills with others
• Passion for technology and willingness to learn is required
• Lead a team to deliver a quality deliverable
• Candid and direct communication
• Creative thinker who can bring in new ideas and innovations to the company

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years large scale enterprise development
• On Premise and/or Cloud Big Data Experience
• Advance development experience (Java, Scala, Python, Rust, or C/C++)
• Knowledge of multiple threaded development
• Knowledge of one or more Big Data Technologies like Kubernetes, Aurora, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Spark, Kafka, Hive, S3,
• Bachelors/Master/PHD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related degree and/or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of one or more Big Data Data Stores (e.g. S3, Hadoop, Alluxio, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Pinot, Red Sift, Redis, etc)
• Knowledge of one or more Spark Based Technologies (e.g. Spark Dataframes, Spark Streaming and Spark SQL)
• Real time analytics using stream processing frameworks such like Spark, Flink, ksqlDB
• Web service protocols such as REST

Benefits of working at Travelport

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life, a competitive 401(k) match.

We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.

Salary Target: $100,000-$105,000

The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training.

Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!*

*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.