Company Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, spaneting, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

As part of Alaska Airlines enterprise data modernization, the BI Developer serves as a senior technical leader in architecting top-of-class, engineering-designed data pipelines that underpin enterprise analytics data products. This role explicitly includes all responsibilities of a Senior BI Developer and expands scope to include enterprise architecture, reusable framework creation, and strategic influence across multiple teams and domains.

Key Duties

• Own and lead enterprise-grade ETL architecture and technical direction across multiple domains.

• Take full ownership of data pipeline design, development, deployment, and ongoing operations to ensure timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.

• Apply reusable frameworks and components to streamline ETL development and optimize workflows across multiple products.

• Manage all aspects of ETL pipeline lifecycle, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and scalability.

• Optimize data storage and retrieval techniques to improve performance while reducing cost.

• Continuously monitor pipeline performance and refine solutions to meet evolving business and technical requirements.

• Implement and uphold data governance, security, and data quality standards across systems.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture.

• Create, define, and standardize reusable ETL frameworks, architectural patterns, and components.

• Define and evolve data architecture, data modeling standards, and engineering best practices.

• Partner with stakeholders to define data engineering requirements, success metrics, and long-term roadmaps.

• Lead architectural and code reviews, influence cross-team technical decisions, and drive adoption of best practices.

• Research, evaluate, and integrate emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies to advance data engineering capabilities.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 4 years of experience of data engineering or ETL development experience.

• A Bachelors degree or 2 years of additional equivalent experience.

• Expert-level, hands-on Databricks experience, including Declarative Pipelines (Delta Live Tables).

• Deep expertise in data engineering concepts including batch and streaming architecture, orchestration, and observability.

• Advanced data modeling expertise with the ability to define and enforce enterprise standards.

• Strong proficiency in Python, Spark, Spark, SQL, and cloud-based lake house platforms.

• Proven experience influencing architecture and technical standards across teams.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum age 18.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Salary Range

$117,700-$176,550 / year

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air

• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits

• Generous 401k match program

• Annual bonus plans

• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Regulatory Information

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.

To implement this policy, we will:

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;

(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and

(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.

Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on

5/11/2026

FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Location Seattle - Corporate HQ
L: LI-B
Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2026-18705
Category Corporate & Operations