Position: Lead Data Engineer

Experience: Must have 6+ years of experience

About Role:

We are looking for experienced Data engineers with excellent problem-solving skills to develop machine-learning powered Data Products designed to enhance customer experiences.

About us:

Nurtured from the seed of a single great idea - to empower the traveler - MakeMyTrip went on to pioneer India’s online travel industry Founded in the year 2000 by Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip has since transformed how India travels. One of our most memorable moments has been to ring the bell at NASDAQ in 2010.

Post-merger with the Ibibo group in 2017, we created a stronger identity and traction for our portfolio of brands, increasing the pace of product and technology innovations. Ranked amongst the LinkedIn Top 25 companies 2018.

GO-MMT is the corporate entity of three giants in the Online Travel Industry—Goibibo, MakeMyTrip and RedBus. The GO-MMT family celebrates the compounded strengths of their brands. The group company is easily the most sought after corporate in the online travel industry.

About the team:

MakeMyTrip as India’s leading online travel company and provides petabytes of raw data which is helpful for business growth, analytical and machine learning needs.

Data Platform Team is a horizontal function at MakeMyTrip to support various LOBs (Flights, Hotels, Holidays, Ground) and works heavily on streaming datasets which powers personalized experiences for every customer from recommendations to in-location engagement.

Our team's key responsibilities are:

1. Design, construct, and maintain robust data systems and architectures
2. Develop and optimize data capture, storage, processing, serving, and querying platforms
3. Create data products for personalization, recommendation, customer segmentation, and intelligence
4. Enhance our Measurement platform for A/B experimentation
5. Contribute to our Feature Store, an internal unified data analytics platform
6. Participate in the development of our next-generation Travel Planner using Generative AI and Multi-Agent frameworks.
7. Implement and optimize data solutions for travel-specific use cases, such as:
8. Analyzing cross-city travel patterns to extend trip recommendations
9. Identifying correlations between hotel bookings in different areas to suggest complementary destinations

Required Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience working with large data sets with hands-on technology skills to design and build robust data architecture
• At least 6+ years of hands-on experience in Spark/BigData Tech stack
• Expertise in stream processing engines like Spark Structured Streaming or Apache Flink
• Analytical processing on Big Data using Spark
• At least 4+ years of experience in Scala. Experience with Python will be a plus.
• Hands-on administration, configuration management, monitoring, performance tuning of Spark workloads, Distributed platforms, and JVM based systems
• At least 2+ years of cloud deployment experience – AWS | Azure | Google Cloud Platform
• 2 or more product deployments of big data technologies – Business Data Lake, NoSQL databases etc
• Awareness and decision-making ability to choose among various big data, NoSQL, analytics tools and technologies
• Should have experience in architecting and implementing domain centric big data solutions
• Ability to frame architectural decisions and provide technology leadership & direction
• Excellent problem solving, hands-on engineering, and communication skills

At MakeMyTrip, we're committed to innovation and excellence in the travel industry. Join us in shaping the future of travel through data-driven solutions and advanced technologies. If you're passionate about leveraging data to create exceptional travel experiences, we want to hear from you!