Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings, and they are seeking a Director Data & AI Platform Engineer. The role involves managing data pipelines at-scale and collaborating with Product and Data Science to build machine learning feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build our AI native travel search APIs by building machine learning feedback loops fronted by MCP servers
• Create repeatable and cost effective patterns for deploying and running data pipelines at-scale
• Collaborate with Data Science on designing data pipelines that simplify training models and bringing models to production
• Act as a mentor and technical partner for teams, helping engineers build confidence with new tooling and delivery processes
• Balance hands-on technical contribution with the ability to influence, communicate and drive change across the organization

Skills

• Proven experience managing data pipelines at-scale
• Strong experience designing and managing data pipelines with Kafka, Iceberg, and Spark in a Kubernetes environment
• Good working knowledge of AWS, including how to build secure, scalable and automated cloud environments
• Comfortable working across multiple teams to identify and implement working solutions
• Experience leading change across engineering teams, including adoption of new tools, processes and standards
• Hands-on experience developing MCPs

Benefits

• 230 USD annually
• All jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance
• Medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance
• Voluntary life options
• A competitive 401(k) match
• Many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs
• Generous paid time off policy
• Hybrid working model
• Contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off
• New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8

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