Senior Data Engineer

ABOUT US

In more than ten countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide champions the power of celebration. Our global family of brands provide best-in-class products, services and content to take celebration planning from inspiration to action. At the core of our business is our industry-leading global online wedding Vendor Marketplace, connecting couples with local wedding professionals and a comprehensive suite of personalized wedding websites, planning tools, invitations, and registry services that make wedding planning easier for couples around the globe. Each year, we connect more than 4.5 million users with around 900,000 global small businesses through our Vendor Marketplace.

LIFE AT TKWW

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. Each year, we help millions of couples around the world celebrate life’s most meaningful moments, while also helping hundreds of thousands of global small business owners get discovered and scale. Life here means working alongside a team that cares deeply, not just about the work you do, but about the life you live. We prioritize employee well-being and development through meaningful opportunities for growth, and we celebrate milestones and wins in a big way. After all, celebrations are what we do best.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide’s Data team is looking for a highly motivated, highly energetic team-player with a strong analytical mindset to join as a Senior Data Engineer supporting end-to-end data pipelines for our business.

A top priority for the company this year is to establish a robust data foundation to power trusted analytics, intelligent ML/AI systems, and scalable business growth. This role will be partnering closely with our stakeholders and also with other Data teams to develop data models and data-driven solutions that enable deep analysis and self-service analytics for our Business Domains (Product, Marketing and Revenue).

We see a Senior Data Engineer as a hybrid role that combines mostly data engineering skills but also having the ability to pivot through business intelligence or reporting models. You will be responsible for building (leading) end-to-end data pipelines using tools like dbt, airbyte, airflow and other modern data stack. This role requires proficiency in SQL, python, data transformation, data modeling, but also collaboration skills and business acumen as they play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making within our organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design, build, and maintenance of end-to-end scalable data pipelines to collect, process, and analyze large and complex datasets from various sources , including but not only, website visitors behavioral tracking, customer data, transactional data and other business data using tools like Airbyte, Python and dbt to write mainly SQL-based data transformations and ensure the data is clean and ready for analysis

Apply dimensional modeling techniques to design tables and views that map business processes into an enterprise data model.

Develop and support complex ETL infrastructure to ensure the delivery of clean and reliable data to the organization

Participate in overall architecture and strategy for the deployment of our end-to-end data pipelines.

Partner with the rest of Data Platform Engineering Teams to provide business logics to design, develop and move data pipelines into production.

Partner with Manager / Lead to define best practices, templates, scalable code for our tech stack development, mainly in dbt.

Assist with performance and tuning of our existing models, pipelines and data-applications.

Foster data governance practices , ensuring data privacy and security, and documenting data pipelines, transformations, and models, contributing to maintaining a data-driven culture within the organization

Understand our business and processes including how our data pipelines and data apps support the business processes and apply this knowledge to best solve problems.

Work and communicate with end users / stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs, providing insights, training them on use of the Information Mart models, data-applications or any actionable results in support of decisions.

Clearly scope, track, execute, and communicate on projects in an Agile environment

Mentor other Data Engineering team members, provide technical leadership and guidance in data engineering projects and initiatives.

Oversee the top of funnel metrics for at least one Business Domain and ensure consistency in their usage across models and reporting by maintaining great documentation

SUCCESSFUL SENIOR DATA ENGINEER CANDIDATES HAVE:

Location: Barcelona, Spain — hybrid role

Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or relational functional field)

3+ years experience including design, development, data management, administration and support building data models, data pipelines, data warehousing (Snowflake preferred)

Advanced proficiency in modeling using SQL and dbt, strength in PythonExperience in data ingestion & orchestration (Airbyte & Airflow) is a plus

Solid understanding of modern data engineering and architecture concepts and practices . This includes knowledge of data warehousing, data pipelines, data marts, semantic layers like Cube, and data integration techniques and tools mostly in cloud infrastructure.

Marketing Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of Paid Media performance metrics and the ability to convert complex marketing requirements into end-to-end data pipeline designs.

Solid understanding of different business process models and reporting needs and ability to convert requirements into models and end-to-end data pipeline designs.

Must be self-motivated and able to work both independently and with others

Versatile and quick learner with ability to pick up any new skills necessary to get the job done.

Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback

Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail, curiosity to detect and explain data anomalies.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders

Experience in different reporting tools or data applications like Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Streamlit …is a plus

Work with Agile methodology and JIRA are a plus

Our international work environment requires fluency in spoken and written English.

WORK MODEL:

This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. You’ll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.

#LI-Hybrid #professional

AI FLUENCY

At TKWW, AI is a tool that helps our teams work smarter, move faster, and spend more time on the work that matters most. We expect every employee, in every role, to build fluency with the AI tools relevant to their work, use them thoughtfully and with sound judgment, and bring curiosity as these tools keep evolving. This isn't about replacing our people's expertise — it's about equipping every employee to use AI to raise the bar on the work we do together.

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

Commit to our customers : You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.

Raise the bar: You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.

Be all in: You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.

Celebrate impact: You