Principal Architect, Data Decision Systems

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Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1.2 million properties listed. We have over one million visitors per year and serve more than one million page views per month.
As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.
HomeAway is a data-driven company with the Decision Systems department at the heart of the data analysis. Our deliverables include the Enterprise Data Warehouse, and automated analytical data streams that fuel our search engine, email marketing engine, and other production systems. As the industry leader with more than 1.2 million online listings across the globe, we generate a lot of data. Our team makes sense out of that data to provide a world-class experience for travelers, Property Owners and Property Managers alike. We accomplish this by pairing tried-and-true RDBMS (SQL Server) with powerful analytics platforms like Hadoop and BigQuery. As the Principal Decision Systems Architect at HomeAway, you’ll play a major role in how we build our data processing systems. You’ll partner with our development managers to understand objectives, and then design scalable, extensible systems that provide us a competitive advantage. Simply put, we want you to be a thought leader in HomeAway’s data and analysis platform. No big deal, right?

Our ideal candidate, at a minimum, will be able to:- Will want to work with cutting edge technologies like Kafka, H-Base, Cassandra, Samza and others based on use case.
- Work with other architects to scale products for today's need and for future roadmaps 12-24+ months away
- Perform new product analysis
- Design and document high availability distributed system
- Design and document Big Data (Hadoop) solutions

- Design and document data warehouses

- Design and document system to APIs to expose data to production services

- Design and document system to system interfaces and transport layers

- Implement proof of concepts

- Influence, train and mentor developers

- Influence and document development practices

- Collaborate and work with various stakeholders including development managers, developers, and business constituents


- Comfortable speak in front of large audiences
- Comfortable working with multi-petabyte systems


Preferred Qualifications:- Proficient knowledge of Hadoop and traditional RDBMS systems

- Proficient knowledge of data science and machine learning tools and practices

- Proficient understanding of Kimball Methodology and data warehouse design

- Experience with Click Stream Analysis
- Experience with Cloud Based Big Data Systems


Benefits:
- Great Medical &Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary

- Target annual bonus

- Company stock (RSU's)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 4 weeks paid vacation

- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our leadership team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Stand up desk
- Casual dress code
 
 
 
 
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