About Us:

HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands. 

HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online.

The Opportunity:

Our team is responsible for three primary functions, and you will be helping drive one or more of, and directly involved in all of these:

1. Build and maintain a self-service layer that will enable all employees easy access for our core data elements in a simple, robust, and performant manner.
2. Create analytic data products – standard analytic solutions that drive insights for the company, that are simple, creative, scalable, and reliable.
3. As the BI COE, establish and maintain standards for data, design and process for the company that ensure best in class BI and analytics while continuing to support the innovative and fluid culture of HomeAway, as an organization, our goal is to create a single business intelligence data warehouse housing data from different feeds across marketing, sales, finance, e-commerce and many other areas. In order to do this, we are investigating enterprise solutions that will work best in our environment so exposure to multiple enterprise tools is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in meetings with various stakeholders on a regular basis and understand their vision/roadmap
• Engage with the business, product and Engineering teams to understand their requirements and convert them to technical specifications whenever necessary
• Help with prototyping BI reporting solutions that are holistic (span multiple departments or Enterprise wide), simple, creative, scalable and reliable
• Evaluate new tools and technologies on a regular basis and make recommendations as necessary
• Mentor the reporting team on the industry standards, best practices and optimal solutions
• Collaborate in design reviews and code reviews to ensure standards are met
• Present the solutions to the stakeholders in a broader group setting

Required:

• 5 years of strong hands-on experience in building end-to-end reporting solutions from ground up using multiple tools and technologies in a corporate setting
• 3+ years of experience using SQL
• Demonstrated experience operating at a very large scale (e.g. millions of listings, billions of visits, etc.)
• Significant hands-on experience with vendor and/or open-source tools to develop impressive reporting and visualization solutions that make data insights easily consumable
• Strong understanding of dimensional warehouse models- Experience working in large scale databases and performance optimization

Preferred:

• Familiarity with the newer tech stack (big data, cloud, etc.)
• Experience with BI data governance, standards and/or abstraction techniques
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science,Engineering, or similar

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
• Competitive salary
• Annual target bonus or commission
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
• Parental Leave (up to 20 weeks based on eligibility)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free snacks and beverages, including breakfast on Fridays
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
• Free listing on HomeAway.com
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass
• Casual dress

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.