Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere. Introduction to team: Data is central to how Expedia Group operates, serves travellers, and makes decisions. When data is incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, or difficult to interpret, the impact can extend across products, analytics, operations, and customer experiences. The Data Quality Platform team is responsible for building a centralized, scalable, and extensible platform that helps teams proactively understand, validate, and trust their data across batch and streaming datasets. We provide automated profiling, configurable quality rules, data contracts, anomaly detection, incident workflows, alerting, and data health visibility so data producers can identify and resolve issues closer to the source. We focus on building reliable, high-performance, secure, and cost-effective platform services that integrate with data pipelines and analytical systems. Typical technologies include Java, Kotlin, Spring, REST, gRPC, Amazon Web Services, Spark, Kafka, Airflow and Agentic AI. We encourage experimentation with new technologies, including machine-assisted data quality workflows, while balancing short- and long-term goals and maintaining a high bar for platform quality and operational excellence. In this role, you will: Lead, coach, and develop one software engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating robust, scalable, and secure Data Quality Platform services. Set technical direction for your team across data profiling, quality rules, data contracts, anomaly detection, alerting, incident management, and data health experiences. Lead and collaborate on complex, cross-organizational initiatives, making thoughtful resource, delivery, product, and architectural trade-offs to maximize strategic value. Partner closely with product managers, architects, program managers, data platform teams, and data domain owners to prioritize roadmaps, clarify requirements, and deliver measurable outcomes. Define and raise engineering standards for coding, testing, architecture, observability, security, continuous delivery, performance, and cost management. Ensure reliable operation of production systems through effective on-call strategies, incident management, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of service-level indicators and objectives. Safely integrate and operate machine-assisted capabilities that improve rule authoring, anomaly detection, and issue explanation, applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to practical data platform workflows.

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred. 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience. Proven track record of end-to-end ownership for complex software or data platform systems, including system design, application programming interface design, data modelling, implementation, and ongoing operations within a defined product or domain scope. Strong proficiency in core software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, testing, continuous integration and delivery, and building secure, reliable, and observable services. Experience working with data platforms, data