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Head of data engineering - remote

Opus Recruitment Solutions
Posted 21 hours ago, valid for 18 days
Location

London, Greater London SW1A2DX, England

Salary

£60,000 - £72,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • We are seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead our expanding Data Engineering team.
  • The role involves managing engineering projects, overseeing data engineers, and ensuring technical integrity of the BI stack.
  • Candidates should have management experience with data engineering teams and a strong background in data engineering, particularly with Python and cloud platforms like GCP.
  • The position requires a degree in a scientific or quantitative field and ideally knowledge of sports betting and gaming data.
  • This full-time director-level position offers a competitive salary, and candidates should have significant experience in the field.
We are looking for aHead of Data Engineeringto lead and become part of our growing Data Engineering team.
Expected 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.
Person profile:
  • 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.

  • Seniority LevelDirector
  • Industry
    • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
  • Employment TypeFull-time
  • Job Functions
    • Engineering
  • Skills

    • Python (Programming Language)

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