Business Intelligence Developer

Turning thought into visual display that turns quantitative information into insights -- the challenge of business intelligence: "Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency." (Edward Tufte) To strengthen our capabilities in statistical modelling and information communication, Etraveli is now recruiting an experienced Business Intelligence Developer.

Etraveli is the leading flight centric online travel agent (OTA) in the Nordic region. The core business is airline tickets and travel related services, targeted towards high volumes of price sensitive consumers. Expertise in travel e-commerce and economies of scale together with an impressive proprietary IT platform enables Etraveli to apply a scalable and profitable business model.

The core of the technical platform, the Internet Booking Engine (IBE), serves price comparison sites and customers with attractive travel options retrieved from centralised flight market places. Every minute, four million travel options are automatically assessed, compiled, and re-priced. Intense data analysis, price optimisation, and configuration automation is crucial in order to keep our margins high.

Bisam (Business Intelligence Statistical Analysis and Modelling) is our data science team. The Bisam initiative is still in the formation phase, but it is already an integral part of the company's operation and vision and has shown rewarding. The team is split across the offices in Uppsala and Göteborg and acts cross functional and cross department. The engaged roles span developers, analysts, database managers, and information engineers. You will sort under the Development department, which is managed from Göteborg.

The work as Business Intelligence Developer has the primary goal of serving the company's Revenue Management team and other internal customer with relevant business intelligence applications. Concretely that means innovation and maintenance of our well developed QlikView application park, where you work closely between the Development and Sales departments. But it does not stop there. In accordance with Etraveli's data strategy we are in the process of introducing massive parallel processing database technologies in the information chain. That step drastically improves the conditions for effective BI and pushes us to break new ground. As Business Intelligence Developer you will be a crucial part in evaluation, development, and integration of platforms and technologies. You will of course also support internal customers with data integration, data research, and conceptual creative thinking around new ways to present, produce and store information. Etraveli's data stock with internal and external data is impressive and still rapidly growing in dimensions and volume.

Yourself, you are a mathematician, statistician, physicist, or similar by education with proved experience from communication of quantitative information and statistical models. You have a solid technical background in software development and configuration. You have strong communication skills. Our team is small but strong, so you appreciate and are prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in where there is need, whether that is internally, attending some random system configuration, or externally with requirement management or information engineering.

All in all, times will be great. You'll find yourself in a highly creative environment, surrounded by awesome coworkers, challenging problems, and demanding, rewarding customers.

Responsibilities

Development of business intelligence and statistical models with applications in price and conversion optimisation
Implementation, documentation, and maintenance of the same
Outreach review of technologies for business intelligence
Integration of such technologies into existing environment
Data acquisition specification
Information engineering
Data Science

Required qualifications

University master degree in mathematics or comparable
Demonstrated abilities in business intelligence
Demonstrated experience of quantitative analysis
Demonstrated programming experience

Meriting experiences

Business intelligence tools and development (QlikView, Sympathy for Data, JasperReport, Pander)
Scientific programming languages (R, SciPy, Matlab)
Cluster computing and massive parallel processing (Spark, SQL, Cloudera Impala, HP Vertica)
Distributed storage and data layer tools (Hadoop, Hive, Kite)
Agile software development processes (Scrum)
System configuration (Windows server, GNU/Linux tool sets)

Location. Sweden. Both Göteborg and Uppsala are possible.

Travels. Regular national commutes.

Keywords. BI, QlikView, R, SciPy, Spark, MPP, SQL, Impala, Hadoop, OLAP