Senior Cloud Data Engineer (AWS), Flutter Functions

Senior Cloud Data Engineer (AWS), Flutter Functions

Senior Cloud Data Engineer
This role is open for recruitment in our Leeds, Dublin, London, Cluj and Porto offices. Benefits will be in line with the entity in each country.

About Flutter Functions 

The Flutter Functions division is a key component of Flutter Entertainment, responsible for providing essential support and services across the organization. The division encompasses various corporate functions, including finance, legal, human resources, technology, and more, ensuring seamless operations and strategic alignment throughout the company.  

Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (FanDuel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge.  It’s our competitive advantage, our ‘secret sauce’ which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale.

In Flutter Finance we pride ourselves in providing global expertise to ensure Flutter is financially healthy. Utilising our Flutter Edge to turbo-charge our capabilities.

As part of Flutter’s Finance Automation strategy, we are looking for an individual with strong coding ability and expertise in cloud-based data transfer solutions to join the team. This role sits within Flutter Group Finance Systems and Technology.

Flutter, as a company that boasts a diverse array of beloved brands, including Paddy Power, Betfair, FanDuel, and PokerStars, operates on a grand scale, engaging millions of customers worldwide. In this exciting role, your primary purpose will be to champion the strategic importance of automation within the CFO function. As we navigate the rapidly evolving gaming industry, automation plays a pivotal role in driving operational excellence, enhancing controls, and securing our position as a forward-thinking industry leader.

This role specifically focuses on utilizing AWS Transfer Family and Databricks to retrieve data from third-party providers via API and SFTP, ensuring seamless integration into Flutter’s financial systems. Additionally, knowledge of networking, secure connectivity, S3 storage, and Databricks querying will be advantageous.

Role Overview

As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure primarily using AWS and Databricks. This role requires a blend of cloud engineering and data engineering expertise to support automation initiatives across Flutter’s global finance organisation.

You will work closely with stakeholders across finance, technology, and security to ensure data flows securely and efficiently from external providers into our financial platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and Delta Lake to process large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.
• Design ETL/ELT workflows to extract data from third-party APIs and SFTP sources, standardise and transform it for downstream financial systems.
• Implement infrastructure and data management solutions on AWS, including secure storage, access control and monitoring.
• Collaborate with finance and data teams to translate business requirements into reliable data workflows.
• Apply software engineering principles such as version control, unit testing, error handling, and CI/CD deployment to all code and pipeline development.
• Ensure all data pipelines are fully documented and meet appropriate standards for security, resilience and operational support.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential:

• Hands-on experience developing data pipelines in Databricks, with a strong understanding of Apache Spark and Delta Lake.
• Proficient in Python for data transformation and automation tasks.
• Solid understanding of AWS services, especially S3, Transfer Family, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Experience integrating data from external APIs and SFTP sources.
• Familiarity with SQL for data profiling, analysis, and transformation.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and data security practices.
• Experience working in a collaborative development environment using Git and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience working in a collaborative development environment using Git and infrastructure-as-code tools, specifically CDK for Terraform (CDKtf) and AWS CDK with TypeScript.
• Ability to clearly document technical solutions and communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience with job orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, AWS Step Functions)
• Exposure to finance data structures or ERP systems (e.g., Oracle Fusion)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies in a cloud environment
• Monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Grafana with Prometheus, or similar)

What’s in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs
• Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world.

We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.