Esports
Data Engineer
Mid Level
London, United Kingdom
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Data Engineer is responsible for designing and building scalable, resilient data solutions that power analytics, reporting and decision-making across Entain's digital brands. The role sits at the heart of the data ecosystem, creating platforms and datasets that enable teams to generate insights, optimise performance and drive commercial growth. Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager, the Data Engineer is part of the Group Analytics Data Science Team, which builds and maintains data products and infrastructure supporting analytics, operations optimisation, safer gambling and regulatory reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transforming complex internal and external data into reliable, business-ready data products.
- Develop and enhance data quality frameworks, monitoring and validation processes to ensure accurate, timely and trusted data.
- Partner with business, senior stakeholders and technology teams to translate requirements into effective data solutions and challenge assumptions where needed.
- Contribute to solution architecture and technical design, owning delivery from discovery through to implementation and ongoing support.
- Collaborate with central data, platform and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement across processes, datasets and tools, increasing efficiency, reliability and business value.
- Communicate technical concepts and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Evaluate new data sources, technologies and approaches to expand analytical capabilities and shape the future data landscape.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines using SQL, Python or similar technologies.
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms, such as Databricks, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery or Azure Data Lake.
- Experience developing cloud-based solutions in AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Familiarity with data transformation and ELT frameworks.
- Experience implementing data quality, testing, monitoring and observability solutions.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools, such as Airflow, Dagster or Azure Data Factory.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed data processing and large-scale data platforms.
- Experience with source control and CI/CD practices.
- Familiarity with containerisation technologies and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Strong understanding of data modelling, warehousing and analytics engineering best practices.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Preferred Skills
- Snowflake.
- AWS.
- Dbt.
- Monte Carlo.
- Prefect.
- GitLab, GitHub or Azure DevOps.
- Docker, Podman and Terraform.
Benefits & Perks
- A regular bonus and great pension.
- 25 days annual leave and all Bank holidays.
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
- Life assurance and Income Protection.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme.
The Application Process
Reasonable adjustments are available at any stage of the recruitment process.
About the Company
Entain is a leading, global sports betting and gaming company with iconic brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, Eurobet and bwin.
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