<p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">ABOUT WEROAD: CONNECTING PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND STORIES</strong></span></p><p><span>Founded in 2017, WeRoad is a fast-growing startup that is disrupting the travel industry in Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland andβ¦ the USA!</span></p><p><span>With 200 team members and 4K+ Travel Coordinators, we're a community of travelers who turn every trip into a life-changing experience. We connect like-minded millennials and send them on adventures to 1000+ destinations worldwide.</span></p><p><span>We're on a mission to design and deliver experiences worth living and sharing, through rewriting the rules of the travel industry.</span></p><p><span>Sounds exciting? Before you apply, please read through our </span><a target="_blank" href="https://career.weroad.travel/culture-manifesto/"><span>Cultural Manifesto</span></a><span> π₯</span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">JOB TITLE: Staff/Lead Data Engineer</strong></span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">LOCATION: Full Remote or Hybrid (Milan).</strong></span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent, full-time</strong></span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">SALARY RANGE: β¬60,000 β β¬75,000</strong></span></p><p><span>As Data Engineering Staff/Lead, you'll be a hands-on leader β you'll write code, review architecture, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with a small, senior Data Engineering team (1β2 engineers) on the evolution of WeRoad's data architecture: the BigQuery warehouse, the dbt transformation and semantic layers, and the pipelines that turn raw data into trusted, self-service insight across every market. You'll report to the Director of Data Engineering & AI and work hand in hand with the wider Data & BI team, Product, and business stakeholders.</span></p><p><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">It's a small, high-leverage team, so this is a player-coach role by design: you'll set the technical direction, standards, and roadmap, but you'll also be in the code and in the pipelines yourself whenever it counts. </strong>You'll take our data platform from solid foundations to best-in-class: a restructured warehouse and semantic layer, near-real-time serverless ingestion, dashboards-as-code, and AI woven through both how we build and what we ship.</span></p><h3><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-9fd092e595e8">What you'll do:</strong></span></h3><ul><li><p><span>Lead our Data Engineering team (1β2 engineers) β owning delivery, quality, and career development.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Own and evolve WeRoad's data architecture: the layered BigQuery warehouse (raw β marts β serving), the dbt transformation layer, and the semantic layer that defines our metrics.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Own the ingestion and orchestration stack β Airflow, dlt, and the move to serverless CDC β and the reliability, quality, and observability of our data pipelines.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Own the self-service BI and reporting toolkit (Tableau, Metabase, and our move to Lightdash / dashboards-as-code) so stakeholders can trust and explore their own data.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Establish and maintain data governance: data quality, lineage, documentation, PII and access controls, and self-service standards.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Drive AI across the team β AI-assisted engineering and production AI data pipelines β and its adoption as a standard practice.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Partner with the Director of Data Engineering & AI, the Data & BI team, Product, and business stakeholders to translate company priorities into a data roadmap.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span><strong id="docs-internal-guid-0ca29d77-7fff-a20e-68c7-