Esports
Data Engineer
Mid Level
Sofia, Bulgaria
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 industry-leading digital brands. Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager, the role sits within the Group Analytics Data Science Team, which builds and maintains the data products and infrastructure supporting analytics, operations optimisation, safer gambling, and regulatory reporting. The role works closely with analysts, data scientists, and senior stakeholders to deliver robust data solutions that improve analytics, operational efficiency, and customer protection.
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.
- 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, or equivalent experience in Azure or GCP.
- Familiarity with data transformation and ELT frameworks.
- Experience implementing data quality, testing, monitoring, and observability solutions, with tools such as Monte Carlo.
- 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, using GitHub or Azure DevOps.
- Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker or Podman, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
- 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 modern cloud data platform.
- Experience with AWS for cloud-based solutions.
- Familiarity with dbt for data transformation and ELT.
- Experience with Prefect for workflow orchestration.
- Experience with GitLab for source control and CI/CD.
Workplace
- Hybrid role
- 2+ office days per week
- Fully remote working across August from anywhere in Bulgaria
Benefits & Perks
- Group Bonus Plan.
- €100 Monthly food vouchers.
- Transport and utilities support.
- 25 days' annual leave plus local public holidays.
- 5 additional paid days off for volunteering, learning and Game Day in December.
- Hybrid working with 2+ office days per week, plus fully remote working across August from anywhere in Bulgaria.
- ShareSave scheme.
- Life assurance and income protection.
The Application Process
Entain may use approved AI tools to make recruitment simpler and more efficient, while keeping people at the heart of what it does. Recruiters and hiring managers oversee how AI is used and remain responsible for hiring decisions; AI supports administrative aspects of the recruitment process and supports decisions but does not make 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 and a FTSE company with iconic brands including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, Eurobet and bwin.
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