Lead Data Engineering

About the Position

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and governance of DAZN’s semantic data models to support consistent, reusable reporting metrics.
• Architect efficient, scalable data transformations on Snowflake using SQL/DBT and best practices in data warehousing.
• Manage and enhance pipeline orchestration with Airflow, ensuring timely and reliable data delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Product, Finance, Marketing, and Technology to translate requirements into robust data models.
• Define and drive best practices in version control, testing, CI/CD for analytics workflows.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Champion data quality, documentation, and observability across the analytics layer.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data/analytics engineering, with 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• Deep expertise in SQL and cloud data warehouses (preferably Snowflake) and Cloud Services(AWS /GCP/AZURE).
• Proven experience with dbt for data modeling and transformation.
• Hands-on experience with Airflow (or similar orchestrators like Prefect, Luigi).
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, ELT best practices, and data governance principles.
• Ability to balance hands-on development with leadership and stakeholder management.
• Clear communication skills - you can explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to Have

• Leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Communication

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge sports streaming company.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Career growth and lifestyle balance in Hyderabad.
• Be part of a team that shapes the future of sports entertainment.

About the Company

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers, and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionize the industry and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

• Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
• Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
• Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.