About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here.)

About the role
(Hybrid)

• Building smarter recommendation systems: You’ll join the team behind the ML systems that help millions of travellers find the right hotel or rental car — and you’ll keep raising the bar on relevance, quality, and performance.
• Owning the full journey: From fuzzy product questions to crisp modelling goals, you’ll run initiatives end-to-end: define what “good” looks like, build models, ship them, and iterate based on what the world tells us.
• Working where it matters: You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering to get production systems into travellers’ hands (not just into notebooks).

What you’ll be doing

• Improving ranking & recommendations: You will design, build, and iterate on production ranking and recommendation systems across Hotels and Cars.
• Turning ambiguity into objectives: You will translate open-ended product challenges into clear modelling goals and hypotheses.
• Defining meaningful success: You will set success metrics that balance user value with marketplace and business outcomes.
• Running rigorous evaluation: You will design and analyse online experiments and offline evaluations to understand real impact.
• Applying statistical & causal reasoning: You will use strong statistical foundations (and causal thinking where it counts) to make confident, responsible decisions.
• Shipping with partners: You will work hand-in-hand with Product and Engineering to deploy, monitor, and improve systems in production.
• Communicating to influence: You will explain complex trade-offs clearly and help shape roadmap decisions with evidence.

About you

• Production-tested: You have 2+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist working in a production environment.
• Applied ML experience: You’ve worked on real-world machine learning or applied data science problems (bonus points if you have worked on ranking/recommender problems).
• Strong fundamentals: You bring solid foundations in statistics, machine learning, or quantitative analysis, and, you know when to use which tool.
• Hands-on with Python & SQL: You’re comfortable building in Python and querying data with SQL.
• Team-friendly engineer mindset: You’re familiar with collaborative development practices like version control and code review.
• Structured problem-solver: You can take an ambiguous problem, break it down methodically, and move it forward without needing a perfect brief.
• Thoughtful evaluator: You care about robust evaluation, including fairness and reliability considerations.

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️ That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role
Hybrid

You’ll step into a pivotal Data Engineering Manager role within our Audience Experience tribe, helping power how millions of travellers discover, engage with and return to Skyscanner. Sitting within Paid Marketing & Marketing Technology, you’ll lead the team behind the data that drives smarter marketing investment and fuels global audience growth.

This is where people leadership meets deep data engineering expertise. You’ll be just as comfortable shaping a high-performing, happy team as you are thinking through architecture and platform evolution.

Your work won’t sit on the sidelines — it will directly influence how we invest across paid channels like search, social and programmatic. In other words, not just dashboards… but decisions.

Along the way, you’ll help evolve our data platform, improving scalability, observability and governance within a modern cloud environment. You’ll partner across Marketing, Product, Analytics and Data Science to turn complex data into clear, actionable direction.

And perhaps most importantly, this is a genuine opportunity to lead, grow and elevate a team — setting the bar for both technical excellence and a culture people want to be part of.

What you'll be doing

• Leading a high-performing team: You’ll manage, coach and grow a team of data engineers, creating an environment where people do their best work (and enjoy it too).

• Building scalable data pipelines: You’ll oversee the design and operation of robust pipelines across paid marketing and affiliate channels.

• Setting technical direction: You’ll define standards across CI/CD, testing, documentation and cost optimisation — raising the bar as you go.

• Partnering cross-functionally: You’ll work closely with Marketing, Product, Analytics and Marketing Technology to shape and deliver the data roadmap.

• Improving data quality & observability: You’ll champion reliable, trustworthy datasets with strong SLAs and clear monitoring.

• Balancing speed and sustainability: You’ll navigate the trade-offs between rapid delivery and long-term platform health, governance and privacy.

• Enabling smarter decisions: You’ll ensure data flows seamlessly from raw signals to decision-ready insights, including feeding optimisation signals back to platforms like Google.

About you

• Experienced people leader: You’ve led and developed engineering teams, ideally through periods of growth or transformation.

• Data engineering expert: You bring strong experience building and scaling data platforms, pipelines and architectures in cloud environments.

• Commercially minded: You understand how data translates into business impact — especially within marketing or growth domains.

• Strategic thinker: You’re comfortable shaping roadmaps and influencing senior stakeholders across disciplines.

• Technically credible: You can dive deep when needed, guiding decisions on tooling, architecture and best practices.

• Collaborative by nature: You thrive working across teams, turning complex requirements into shared outcomes.

• Curious and improvement-driven: You’re always looking for better ways to build, lead and scale — and you bring others along with you.

What it's like here

We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️ building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole "47 browser tabs open" phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

About the role

(Shenzhen)

Hybrid

This is a contractor role for an initial about six-month term till end of 2026.

Your mission: Lead the delivery of all IT infrastructure workstreams — AV, networking, and security — within our new Shenzhen office fit-out programme, acting as the bridge between Employee Enablement, the Workplace team, and our external contractors.

Your impact: You'll make sure that when our people walk into the new space, everything just works — the screens, the networks, the access controls. You'll own the IT delivery end-to-end, keeping it on time, on budget, and built to a standard we're proud of.

What you'll be doing

Delivering AV, networking and security: Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the AV, networking, and physical/electronic security workstreams within the fit-out programme — ensuring project plans, schedules, and risk registers are maintained and delivery teams are on track.

Connecting Workplace and Employee Enablement: Serving as the primary point of contact between the Workplace team and Employee Enablement for all IT-related aspects of the fit-out, representing IT interests in programme governance meetings and resolving cross-functional dependencies.

Coordinating with the main contractor: Acting as the single IT interface with the main contractor — coordinating access, scheduling, and sequencing of IT works within the broader programme of works.

Running the finances: Accountable for all purchase orders, invoicing, procurement, and budget tracking for the IT fit-out scope, ensuring compliance with internal policies and maintaining accurate expenditure forecasts.

Signing off on designs: Reviewing and approving technical designs from AV, security, and network contractors, coordinating internal technical reviews with subject-matter experts, and managing change control for any post-approval amendments.

Reporting to leadership: Providing regular project status updates to Employee Enablement leadership covering progress, risks, issues, financials, and milestones — keeping reporting aligned with broader programme governance standards.

About you

Experienced in IT project delivery: You bring solid experience managing IT infrastructure projects within office fit-out or construction environments.

Technically literate: You have a strong understanding of AV systems, enterprise networking, and physical/electronic security technologies — enough to review contractor designs critically and ask the right questions.

Commercially sharp: You're comfortable managing budgets, raising POs, running procurement processes, and keeping a clean financial trail.

A natural coordinator: You thrive at the intersection of multiple stakeholders — contractors, internal teams, leadership — and you keep everyone aligned without breaking a sweat.

A clear communicator: You report confidently to senior leadership and translate technical detail into language that lands with any audience.

Quality-driven and structured: You maintain tight RAID logs, chase down risks early, and hold contractors to the standards we expect.

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you'd like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here.)

About the role
Hybrid

This isn’t just another engineering management role — it’s your chance to shape the data backbone of an AI-first travel company. You’ll lead a high-performing squad within Core Data, building the reliable, scalable, and (very importantly) trusted data products that power everything from experiments to real-time traveller experiences.

Think of it as part leadership, part technical strategy, part “let’s make data actually useful at scale.” You’ll help set the pace, raise the bar, and make sure our data platforms are ready not just for today — but for where AI is taking us next.

What you'll be doing

• Leading a high-impact squad: You’ll hire, coach and grow a team of talented data engineers, helping them do their best work (and enjoy doing it).
• Creating a safe, curious environment: You’ll foster a culture where experimentation is encouraged, failure is a lesson, and learning never stops.
• Owning delivery and quality: You’ll keep things moving — prioritising work, unblocking challenges, and ensuring high standards across everything shipped.
• Driving engineering excellence: You’ll champion best practices across testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance optimisation (because smooth pipelines = happy teams).
• Building AI-ready foundations: You’ll help shape data platforms that support ML and AI use cases — from reproducibility to responsible data practices.
• Shaping strategy and standards: You’ll influence how data engineering is done at Skyscanner, evolving standards, tooling and ways of working.
• Collaborating across teams: You’ll partner with product, analytics and data science to turn fuzzy problems into clear, impactful solutions.

About you

• Experienced leader: You’ve led and grown data engineering teams in product-led environments and know how to bring out the best in people.
• Technically strong: You’re comfortable with modern data stacks like Databricks, Spark, Airflow, SQL and Python — and you can go deep when needed.
• Cloud-savvy: You understand distributed systems and cloud platforms, and how to make them work efficiently at scale.
• Quality-driven: You care about doing things well — from clean code to reliable pipelines and solid operational practices.
• Collaborative by nature: You work brilliantly across disciplines and know how to align teams around shared goals.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You don’t need everything perfectly defined to get started — you bring clarity where there isn’t any.
• Future-focused: You’re excited about AI, data innovation, and how better foundations unlock faster, smarter product development

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.