Data Engineer

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Department: Advertising Department: Data & Analytics
• Referral Band: ♥
• Compensation: GBP 45,000 - GBP 65,000 yearly

About the Position

Join Angstrom Sports, a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, as a Data Engineer. We are building intricate, simulation-driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group. Founded in 2018 and acquired by Entain in 2023, we are committed to delivering the most advanced pricing and risk capabilities with a focus on the US market.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing scalable data architectures and systems
• Developing and maintaining ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines
• Managing data storage, backup, and recovery mechanisms
• Writing SQL queries to extract data for analysis
• Developing and implementing data security and privacy
• Interfacing with clients and end users to receive guidance on projects and deliverables

Requirements

Essential:

• Proficient in writing clean, efficient, and maintainable SQL and Python code, particularly for data transformation and analytics use cases
• Understanding of data modelling concepts and ability to design data models optimized for different user cases
• Familiarity with SQL and experience (2+ years) working with and designing relational databases
• Experience (1+ year) implementing data pipelines that run on Kafka or equivalent distributed event store and stream processing platforms
• Ability to debug and optimize failing or slow data pipelines and queries
• Systems integration experience (1+ years): networking, data migrations, API integration and design
• Enthusiasm for clean systems, including documentation, logging, and reproducibility
• Experience (2+ years) working with AWS S3, Athena, ECS, Cloud Formation, Lambdas & Cloudwatch
• Excellent presentation, documentation, time management, communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively and autonomously
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic and analytical outlook

Desirable:

• Familiar with analytics tools such as Power BI, Apache Superset, or similar for building interactive and impactful visualizations
• Familiarity with distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka) and how they support scalable analytics solutions
• Passion for TDD
• A love of sports
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems that arise during the Data Engineering process and find effective solutions
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• A side project that illustrates the individual has thought about solution architecture from start to finish

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Generous group bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
• Entain & Enhance days
• Sharesave Scheme

About the Company

Angstrom Sports is a pioneering sports pricing and product provider, building intricate, simulation-driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group. Founded in 2018 and acquired by Entain in 2023, we are committed to delivering the most advanced pricing and risk capabilities with a focus on the US market. We’re proud to be a high-performing, low-ego team where brilliant people are empowered and people work to become brilliant. While we’re ambitious and delivery-driven, we take real pride in how we operate and the health of our independent culture, underpinned by mutual trust and respect.

Job Location

United Kingdom

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.