Senior Software Engineer (C#, .Net, Advanced SQL - Sports Domain Experience)

Developer builds, supports, and improves the systems and integrations that power live sports statistics across DAZN/Fox Sports products and broadcast workflows. The role focuses on ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing sports data from third-party providers and internal capture systems so it can be used reliably by digital products, broadcast graphics, and internal stakeholders. It sits at the intersection of sports data, live operations, product delivery, and stakeholder support, covering provider integrations, internal capture platforms, broadcast data feeds, and operational support for a 24x7 sports data environment.

• Build, maintain, and support integrations with external sports data providers, including Sportradar and Champion Data, covering feeds such as schedules, scores, standings, and player/team data.
• Support real-time and near-real-time ingestion pipelines for sports such as AFL, Netball, NRL, Cricket, Football, Basketball, and Motorsport, and map provider data into internal schemas and publishing models used by APIs, widgets, broadcast systems, and internal tools.
• Investigate and resolve issues with incoming feeds, data quality, sequencing, match states, and downstream publishing, and support changes when providers update feed structures, fields, or delivery patterns.
• Support and enhance in-house stats capture systems for sports including NRL and Cricket, working with the internal stats division to ensure captured data is correctly stored, validated, published, and displayed.
• Maintain tools and workflows for live capture, correction, validation, and display of match statistics
• Support internal users of capture and display systems during live events and operational windows
• And assist with issue triage, defect resolution, and continuous improvement of internal stats workflow.
• Support data delivery for OB graphics and broadcast workflows, including integrations that feed systems such as Virtual Eye, ensuring live and post-match data is available in the correct format and at the right time for on-air and production use.
• Troubleshoot issues affecting graphics, overlays, scoreboards, and other production-facing data outputs, and work with broadcast, production, and operational stakeholders to support live event requirements.
• Support internal stakeholders across stats operations, editorial, digital, product, broadcast, and production, and help deliver and maintain data used in scoreboards, match centres, fixtures, ladders, player stats, breakdowns, and related sports experiences.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, QA, and operations teams to improve reliability and usability of stats products, investigate and resolve data issues raised by internal users and business teams, and provide technical support and clear communication during incidents, live issues
• And post-event review.
• Support a 24x7 sports data platform, participate in an on-call roster, monitor and respond to incidents, perform production support, issue triage, root cause analysis, and service recovery during live sporting events
• Support planned sporting calendars, peak event periods, and critical match windows
• And contribute to operational readiness, support documentation, and continuous improvement of platform reliability, including new sports, new competitions, and changes to provider data structures or downstream requirements.

• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong SQL skills including query writing, stored procedures, views, triggers, data investigation and troubleshooting, and performance-aware database development.
• Experience working with.NET / C applications.
• Experience supporting or developing desktop applications used for operational or capture workflows.
• Experience working with data integration services, import processes, and real-time or near-real-time data pipelines.
• Experience with XML, JSON, and API/data-feed integration patterns.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues across application, database, and integration layers.
• CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in EKS, Argo, and AWS suite.
• Experience working with sports data, live data feeds, or real-time integrations.
• Experience integrating third-party providers such as Sportradar, Champion Data, or similar.
• Experience supporting systems used in broadcast, graphics, digital sports products, or sports statistics platforms.
• Experience supporting operational or live-event systems where timeliness and accuracy are critical.
• Ability to work closely with internal operational stakeholders in high-pressure live environments.
• Comfort working across C /.NET applications, Microsoft SQL Server-backed applications, desktop applications used by internal stats/capture teams, service and integration applications that support ingestion, transformation, and publishing of sports data, SQL Server in production environments

• Experience in a sports broadcast, sports media, or live operations environment.
• Familiarity with OB graphics, Virtual Eye, or other production graphics/data workflows.
• Experience supporting capture and display tools used by internal operational teams.
• Knowledge of sports data products such as scoreboards, ladders, player stats, match breakdowns, and fixtures.
• Experience participating in on-call support or supporting 24x7 production platforms.
• Experience with incident management, service recovery, and post-incident review processes.