We are looking for a Head of Data Engineering to lead and become part of our growing Data Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of engineering projects within BI, including contributing expertise to project planning and architectural solutions.
• Line management of the data engineers.
• Running engineering sprints and retrospectives; assistance with incident reviews.
• Technical oversight of the BI stack. Including data governance and integrity (incl. data contracts and variations); setting development standards, practices and processes; ensuring stack availability and robustness; driving performance improvements (e.g., upgrades and migrations); and management of technical debt.
• Collaboration with Data Science and Reporting (within BI) to facilitate the work of those teams and their deployments.
• Collaboration with other technology departments on cross-team projects.

Qualifications

• Management experience of teams of data engineers.
• Detailed experience as a data engineer.
• Python application development.
• Web-based development platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab), including CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud platforms such as GCP (ideally having covered BigQuery, Kubernetes and Firestore).
• Configuration of cloud infrastructure (e.g., with Terraform).
• Messaging services (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB and Firestore).
• SQL querying (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake), including the ability to work with complex data structures and very large data volumes.
• Orchestration services (e.g., Airflow, Luigi, Cloud Compose).
• Proactive, independent, responsible and attentive to detail.
• Eager and able to learn, analyse, resolve problems, and improve the standard of BVGroup data infrastructure.
• Degree in a scientific or quantitative field.
• Ideally knowledge of sports betting and familiarity with gaming data.

Job details

• Seniority Level: Director
• Industry: Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Job Functions: Engineering
• Skills: Python (Programming Language)