Data Acquisition Engineer

Job Title:    

Data Acquisition Engineer

 

Location: 

Boston MA 02108

 

About Cheapflights:  

Cheapflights is an online travel search engine that publishes flight deals from both traditional and low-cost airlines, as well as smaller specialty-travel providers.  Originally a British company, Cheapflights.co.uk made its entrance as the first travel price Internet search and comparison site in 1996.  Cheapflights.co.uk became one of the top destinations for travel deals in the UK, and pioneered CPC. Cheapflights.com launched in the USA in June 2003 and has had a very successful first 4 years in the US market.  Cheapflights.com now receives over 2 million visits a month and is a top 13 USA travel agent website (Hitwise). 

Key areas of responsibility:

Working as a part of the US IS Team your primary responsibilities will be providing 2nd line support to our growing number of advertisers which involves extracting and transforming data from disparate sources in addition to using and developing the companies in house screen scraping technology. The role involves both written and verbal communication with our advertisers and so good inter-personal skills would be essential.

 

Technical Skills:

Essential:MS SQLT-SQLXML/SOAPHTML

 

Highly Desirable:Regular ExpressionsSQL Server 2000/DTS

 

Desirable:Web based Architecture

 

Preferred Background:3+ years in ITClient facing backgroundTravel Industry

 

Personal Qualities:Strong Team PlayerGood Communication SkillsOrganisedDelivery focused

 

Only candidates in the immediate Boston vicinity should apply. All applicants must be eligible to work in the United States (No visa sponsorship will be offered).