Customer & Solution Ownership: Partner directly with enterprise clients to discover business needs, design scalable Data & Analytics solutions, and build long-term technical trust.
Hands-on Leadership: Own technical design and architectural decisions. Lead the development of critical system components and write production-quality code.
Engineering Excellence: Set high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability. Mentor delivery engineers and review their work to ensure top-tier performance.
Delivery & Integration: Oversee end-to-end implementation, data migration, and system enhancements, ensuring everything aligns with platform capabilities and timelines.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and SRE teams to remove blockers and champion engineering best practices.
Required Experience & Skills
Core Development: Strong hands-on Java backend experience, paired with good knowledge of Python for data and automation.
Architecture: Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD).
Data & Messaging: Robust experience with data platforms, streaming/event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), and solid SQL skills (Relational and NoSQL).
Integrations: Proven track record of building and consuming RESTful APIs for mission-critical, high-availability enterprise systems.
Lead-to-Principal Expectations
Independently manages complex systems and critical components under minimal oversight.
Leads through technical authority, execution excellence, and active mentorship.
Demonstrates the strategic vision and technical depth required to quickly evolve into a Principal Engineer.
Why This Role Matters
You will ensure our most complex Data & Analytics solutions run flawlessly in the real world-directly protecting customer trust, driving platform adoption, and securing revenue realization.
Work arrangements
Hybrid working mode; 3 chosen days from the office in a week
Flexible working hours: Maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs
Paid time off
Year-End-Break: enjoy additional fully paid days off during the last week of the year
Paid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies.
Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice
Your money
My Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card
Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax
Employee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury
Baby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption
Say Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services
Health and wellness
Luxmed VIP medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services
Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package
Employee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor
Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health
Life insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program
Career development
Professional development: access to e-learning platforms as well as join Sabre live learning sessions
Certification and tuition reimbursement
Our Communities: join one of our team
Benefits
Health insuranceVision insurancePaid time offFlexible schedulePerformance bonusParental leave
Additional Information
Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world's largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
Lead - Service Delivery, Data & Analytics
Role Summary
As a Lead Engineer, you will own complex Data & Analytics solutions end-to-end-from shaping the initial strategy with enterprise customers to hands-on execution.
In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor, translating business hurdles into scalable technical solutions. You will balance technical leadership and mentorship with hands-on development, writing production code and driving engineering excellence. This position offers high autonomy and is designed for a leader ready to track directly into a Principal Engineer role.
Sabre · Krakow, Poland