Data & AI Engineer - (Hybrid)

Cruise Planners is the largest franchisor of home-based travel agencies across the country that independently book cruises, tour, and land vacations. Cruise Planners has achieved Top Producer status with virtually every cruise line, tour, and resort company. Cruise Planners has been named the No.1 Cruise Tour / Travel Agency by Entrepreneur Magazine for the past 10 years and recently featured in Entrepreneur as one of the top 30 franchise innovators in technology. Cruise Planners positions franchise owners for success by providing them with innovative marketing, booking and lead-generating tools as well as professional development and hands-on training with the industry’s top executives. Cruise Planners Home Office has won awards such as Coolest Offices and Top Places to Work in South Florida by Sun Sentinel and South Florida Business Journal.

Job Summary

The Data & AI Engineer designs, builds, and operates the data and AI systems behind Cruise Planners' analytics, advisor-facing products, and internal automation. The role combines production data engineering on AWS (Glue, Redshift, Step Functions, Lambda, S3) with applied generative-AI work on Amazon Bedrock (Data Automation, Knowledge Bases, AgentCore) and the Strands Agents SDK.

Day-to-day development is conducted through agentic coding tooling — Claude Code with MCP — used as a primary engineering surface, not as autocomplete, with the pace and scope of delivery expected to exceed what traditional tooling supports. The team is small: engineers scope, build, deploy, document, and operate their own work end to end.

*The items listed below are intended to provide an overview of the essential functions of the job. This is not an exhaustive list of all functions and responsibilities that the position may be required to perform.*

Responsibilities

• Design and operate data pipelines on AWS — Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, S3 — feeding the Redshift data warehouse.
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