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Data Engineer

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tombola

Sunderland

Remote or hybrid

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Description

What will I be doing? 🔎

Role purpose

Be part of the Data Engineering team at tombola, in delivering a market leading customer data platform.

To deliver data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof

To implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems

To work with commercial, product and analytics teams to define, produce and maintain data models around the business

Be a team player and support deliver the data engineering strategy that enables tombola to deliver on its business objectives

To optimize and develop the data pipeline that makes tombola’s various online data sources available for consumption by key stakeholders around the business.

To work with development and engineering teams to ensure quality and availability of raw data sources

To work with security, data protection and compliance teams to ensure a secure and compliant data architecture is maintained, in line with gambling license requirements and industry best practices

Key Responsibilities

Designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to facilitate building data models that provide useful data and insights to key business stakeholders, external stakeholders and regulators

Working with Data Analysts in delivering an efficient data model to be used for analytics and reporting

Collaborating with immediate team and wider teams to support data queries and requests

Participate in team’s Sprint ceremonies and commit to timely delivery of tasks / objectives

Working with key business stakeholders and analysts to gather data requirements

Defining and documenting key logical and physical data models

Produce and maintain a metadata repository for use within various departments across the business

Ensure that the principles of security-by-design and privacy-by-design are followed

Knowledge & Experience

Experience in designing, building and testing data products based on feeds from multiple systems, using a range of different storage technologies, access methods or both

Experience maintaining and documenting large data sets

Experience managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Experience in Cloud Technologies

Experience in ETL, Orchestrator tools like Airflow, AWS Glue etc.

Understand the concepts and principles of data modelling.

Experience in modern data warehouse technologies like redshift, databricks etc

In depth SQL knowledge.

Streaming frameworks like Kafka, Kinesis etc

Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices across Data Engineering field and awareness of where this discipline relates and adds value to other business domain areas

Ability to work in large, collaborative teams

Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement

Knowledge of iGaming industry and regulatory requirements would be a huge advantage

Experience with a broad range of technologies would be a huge advantage. Some of the tools / technologies we use are Python, git, dbt, Docker, SQL Server, AWS

Personal Qualities

Ability to work as part of a team

Expert communicator. Can communicate progress of complex projects to senior stakeholders.

Demonstrate high degree of empathy and emotional intelligence

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels

Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude and the ability to use own initiative

Have a “down to earth” working style

Good attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively

Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

Spirit of fun and engagement

Role tech stack

Apache Airflow

AWS

SQL

Apache Kafka

Amazon Kinesis

Python

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Culture overview

We’re ambitious, we’re growing quickly and we’re looking for awesome people to join our already awesome team. #tombolalife is a lot of fun - we take pride in what we do, we work hard and we work together. We’re excited about the future and the team that will make an impact.