Principal Data Architect

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With millions of diners, tens of thousands of restaurants, and 25 years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a unique insight into the world of hospitality. We champion restaurants, bars, wineries, and other venues around the world, helping them attract guests, manage capacity, improve operations and maximize revenue.

Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK's portfolio of travel brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined.

Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture. You’ll work in a welcoming and inclusive environment, and get the benefits, flexibility, and support you need to succeed.

About the Role

As a Principal Data Architect, you will own the relationship of the Data Engineering team with core stakeholders; primarily Marketing, Revenue Strategy, and Product Analytics. Strong organizational skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders are essential. You also have a strong technical background in modern Data Engineering technologies and techniques.

The Data Engineering team at OpenTable supports a wide range of initiatives targeting diners, restaurants, and internal stakeholders such as:

• Delivering robust data sets to analytics and product teams across both restaurant and diner-facing product areas
• Partnering closely with Marketing on both B2B and B2C audience segmentation and campaign performance optimization
• Instrumenting diner and restaurant behavior to create actionable insights
• Ensuring Security and Data Governance across the company

Requirements

• Extensive Data Warehouse experience, particularly in data modeling, performance tuning, security, and governance
• SQL Expertise
• Python proficiency

Strong Preference

• Proven track record of project leadership and cross-team collaboration
• Experience coordinating with Product Managers and other stakeholders
• Familiarity with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Snowflake, Databricks, DBT

Bonus

• Pipelines: Spark, AWS, Delta Lake
• Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Graphite/Grafana
• Infrastructure: SQL Server, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
• Build: Poetry, TeamCity

About Us

The Data Engineering team at OpenTable faces unique challenges that also present opportunities:

• OpenTable is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 25 million diners per month via online bookings across approximately 60,000 restaurants. It has a massive wealth of diner and restaurant data going back over 20 years.
• OpenTable fields a lean team, with just over 1,200 employees globally. The ML & Data Engineering team is currently fifteen people, but striving to grow.

As a Principal Data Architect, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects across the company and make a meaningful impact with access to extensive data. However, you will need to think critically and prioritize effectively due to the team's finite bandwidth. If these challenges excite you, we look forward to hearing from you!

Benefits

OpenTable strives to provide a fair, collaborative, and balanced work environment.

• Paid Time Off - 20 days a year
• Birthday/celebration PTO - 1 day
• Annual company weeks off
• Flexible sick time off
• Paid volunteer time
• Parental Leave Benefits
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Group RRSP and DPSP
• Major Medical Insurance (dependent care options)

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Toronto, Canada based role is $170,000-$200,000 CAD.

In addition to a competitive base salary, roles are eligible for additional compensation and benefits including: annual cash bonus, equity grant; health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave and benefits.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

OpenTable aspires to be a workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve and a culture that is inclusive and welcoming. Hiring people with different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users and our partners.

Representation matters.We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.