Data Engineer

British Airways Holidays

Our colleagues and customers are at the heart of everything we do.

We’re one of the UK’s leading and most trusted tour operators. We provide holiday packages, hotels, car hire and experiences via ba.com and the British Airways contact centres. From carefully selected hotels to our 24-hour support helpline we take every element of our customers’ holidays seriously.

Here at British Airways Holidays we are in the privileged position to be part of the growing IAG Loyalty Group-made up of British Airways Holidays, Loyalty (the home of Avios) and The Wine Flyer. Having all the advantages of being in this strong collective, coupled with all the benefits that come with working in a smaller company. All 360 of us! Our passion, excellence, creativity and warmth are the special qualities that make all of us at British Airways Holidays who we are.

Our business is growing and has ambitious plans, so it’s it a really exciting time to join our team.

About the role

As a Data Engineer you will build robust, accurate and usable reports for the business. This is a fantastic opportunity to take on an end-to-end role. You will bring multiple data sources together, cleanse the data for integrity, build the report to business needs, present the reports to the business and take feedback to continually improve the benefits the reports offer.

You will be involved in a variety of reports covering commercial, financial, inventory and operational, that support all areas of the business. As well as regular report creation and maintenance you will be able to undertake project work to further develop your skill set.

Here we use SQL, Tableau and Excel to cleanse, build and present the reports. If you come to us with excellent knowledge and use of either SQL or Tableau, we will train you in the other.

It is a small team where you will own the whole report process. Being a small team you can influence the way we approach reporting building and the service we offer. You will be close to business stakeholders, so need to be able to understand their requirements and create meaningful reports that provide automation and time saving to allow stakeholders to make fast and key business decisions.

What you will be doing

• You will work to business requests for data and delivering the data required in a meaningful format that the business can use
• In the end to end to ownership you will identify the best data source to meet data requests, audit all data used / provided to ensure it is accurate, robust and valid, and accountable for correcting data as needed
• You will then create and build new reports and models and ensure the reports are presented to the business in a meaningful and usable way. Always ensuring reports are optimised for speed.
• Finally, you will provide users with documentation and training on reports and data as needed

What you will bring

• Ability to provide (extract and manipulate) complex data for a variety of business use
• Experience of bringing multiple data sources together
• Experience of working with large datasets and databases
• You need to come with an excellent knowledge and proven experience of working with either writing SQL or Tableau. We can train you in the other.
• Excellent MS Excel (inc VBA)
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to effectively manage stakeholders and understand the requirements to translate into a meaningful business report

What we can offer you

£35,000 to £37,000 per annum salary (this may vary depending on your relevant skills and experience)

Our offices are based in central Crawley and we offer hybrid working (within the UK only).  Generally, this role works from our offices once a week, with additional days as needed depending on meetings etc. Office days are co-ordinated so that colleagues in the same team are in the office together to collaborate in person.  We usually support new colleagues in the office full time for the first few weeks

Key benefits include

• 25 days holiday per calendar year, increasing by one day for every two complete years’, to a maximum of 30 days, plus normal bank holidays.
• Unlimited standby and premium standby fares for you and your nominees on the BA network and partner airlines, from day one
• Discounts on BA flights and holidays from day one for you, your friends and family
• Flexible start & finish times
• Annual incentive scheme and salary review (dependant on company & individual performance)
• Company contributory pension scheme up to a maximum of 5% colleague and 11% company contributions.
• Range of colleague wellbeing and recognition programmes

Diversity, equality & inclusion are all important to us.  We believe a diverse and inclusive workplace contributes to our sense of wellbeing and belonging, enabling us all to thrive professionally and personally.  Equality and equity are important in ensuring that everyone is treated fairly.  Our focus is on creating a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

• We aim to be inclusive – everyone feels valued and respected as an individual. 
• We aim to ensure equality and equity-everyone treated fairly as individuals with recognition of unique differences.
• We aim to be diverse – with a mix of colleagues representing our community.

We are advertising this role as a permanent full time role, however if you would like to apply on a part time basis, you are welcome to open a discussion about this at the stage of the application process that suits you.

Closing date for applications is: 27th March

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.