❓ The reason why of this position:

In 2025, more than ever, data is at the heart of our strategic decisions. Our ability to collect travel data through our products, make it available to our business decision-makers, and leverage it to create innovative solutions for our users is central to our challenges.

One of the main assets of Evaneos is our data : Having a deep understanding of how we connect trip components together to create better trips is at the heart of our business. That’s why our ambitions are huge over the next years: being the Travel Tech Leader which includes developing the best and most efficient travel experience powered by Data and Tech.

👔 The position in a nutshell:

At Evaneos, our Data activity is a key pillar. The data tech team provides the platforms and technical expertise for Data and AI. It consists of:

• Data Platform, within the Engineering teams : this part of the team includes 2 Data Engineers who provide the necessary resources (data pipelines, cloud resources, …) to our 8 Data Analysts (split into 2 areas of expertise: Product Analysts and Business Analysts) who support all departments in their decision-making. You’ll manage directly people from the Data Platform.

• Data Intelligence, within the Innovation Pole : composed of an ML Engineer and a Technical Product Manager (TPM) who is in charge of Data Intelligence. They support our 4 impact teams (pluri-disciplinary teams) by providing them with an artificial intelligence platform (tools, cloud resources, APIs, expertise). And we’re counting on you to help us build it. You’ll pair with the TPM to ensure we get to the Travel Data Vision.

We use Google Cloud, Looker, Amplitude, Airflow, Dbt, Git for the Data platform part, and VertexAI, Python, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic for the AI platform.

As a Lead Data Engineering, you’ll report directly to the CTO of the Marketplace.

Your partner in the Innovation Pole reports to the head of Innovation.

You both animate the Data Tech Community that aggregate all the Data Tech competencies within the company.

📄 Your mission:

👨‍🎓 Be THE technical expert

• You have a strong understanding of technical challenges, which enables you to guide our team and strategy regarding Data and AI. There are still technical choices to be made, and we’re excited to see where you’ll lead us!

• You support and manage your team (composed of 2 Data Engineers) in their skill development and encourage their autonomy, responsibility-taking, and initiative so they can be proud of their achievements.

• As a hands-on manager, your experience and technical background also allow you to participate in solving complex problems.

🎯 Ensure team monitoring and efficiency

• Establishing and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team effectiveness and project impact.

• Ensuring timely delivery of data solutions that meet business needs and product requirements.

• Implementing robust monitoring and alerting systems to maintain platform reliability and performance.

• Encouraging a culture of continuous improvement through retrospectives, feedback loops, and iterative processes.

• Aligning the team’s work with the broader data strategy to ensure maximum impact and efficiency.

• Collaborating with other technical teams to optimize resource usage and remove bottlenecks in data workflows.

🧠 Lead the entire Data Tech community

• Collaboration with Data Analysts & Impact Teams in Shape-up cycles

• Guardian of the Data Platform vision & structure towards 2030

We promote sharing learnings, successes and failures to bring out best practices.

Finally, these responsibilities are not exhaustive and may evolve depending on current events, Evaneos’ journey and you!

🎯 Main KPIs of the position:

• Delivery velocity

• Uptime of the Data Platform

• Freshness of Data

• Trust in Data

• Decisions made thanks to the data

• Product built thanks to the data platform

🤝 This could be your dream job if:

• You have at least 7 years of experience as a Data Engineer, and successful prior management experience.

• You have a highly collaborative/inclusive approach: “Servant Leadership” mindset

• You have strong product sensibility: you seek to understand business needs and want to provide the simplest and most suitable solution.

• You know how to identify obstacles and act accordingly (technical, organizational, and human).

• You also have knowledge of the AI world (ML, LLMs, …) ideally with concrete implementation experience.

🎁 Benefits:

We place the well-being of “Evaneosians” at the center of our values:

• Travel budget through the “CSE” to discover Evaneos services.

• Travel remote work to work from different countries/regions several times a year.

• 25 days of paid leave, 10 RTT days, Flexi Fridays, solidarity RTT, etc.

• Choice of PC or MacBook Pro provided.

• Yoga classes, meditation, sports partially covered by Evaneos through partnership with Gymlib.

• Internal events to get to know each other, discover and exchange: cultural lunches, seminars, afterworks, daily meetings, retrospectives, coffee breaks, etc.

Compensation:

Our compensation policy allows us to define a salary range based on professional experience and a person’s level of impact.

💬 Interview Process:

1️⃣ An initial video call with Alice (HRBP) to break the ice and dive into the Evaneos universe (30 minutes).

2️⃣ Video interview with the CTO (45min): Data Culture & Understanding of Evaneos’ business model.

3️⃣ Practical case study, preferably in person (1h30)

4️⃣ A team fit discussion to give you more context about Evaneos’ values and envision our future together.