Esports
Data Engineer
Mid Level
Lisbon, Portugal
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
This is a hybrid Data Engineer role within Entain's Group Analytics Data Science Team, reporting to the Data Engineering Manager. The role is responsible for designing and building scalable, resilient data solutions that power analytics, reporting and decision-making across Entain's industry-leading digital brands. The team builds and maintains the data products and infrastructure that support analytics, operations optimisation, safer gambling and regulatory reporting across the business.
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, challenging 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.
- Champion engineering best practices in testing, observability, documentation and maintainability to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
- 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 Azure or GCP.
- 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
- Experience with Snowflake as a cloud data platform.
- Experience with AWS.
- Familiarity with data transformation and ELT frameworks, ideally dbt.
- Experience with Monte Carlo or similar data quality and observability tooling.
- Experience with Prefect for workflow orchestration.
- Experience using GitLab, GitHub or Azure DevOps for source control and CI/CD.
- Familiarity with Docker or Podman and with Terraform.
Workplace
- Hybrid working arrangement.
Salary
- Starting from €45,000 EUR.
Benefits & Perks
- A regular bonus and a great pension.
- €9.60 Food vouchers per day.
- 25 days annual leave.
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- A stake in the company's success through the ShareSave scheme.
The Application Process
The recruitment process may be supported by approved AI tools, with recruiters and hiring managers overseeing their use and remaining responsible for hiring decisions.
- Approved AI tools may be used to make recruitment simpler and more efficient, supporting administrative aspects of the process while keeping people at the heart of it.
- Recruiters and hiring managers oversee how AI is used and remain responsible for hiring decisions; AI supports decisions rather than making them.
- Reasonable adjustments are available at any stage of the recruitment process on request.
About the Company
Entain is a leading, global sports betting and gaming company that is upping the excitement and increasing player safety.
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