Data Engineer - Flutter UK&I, Hybrid

Data Engineer - Flutter UK&I, Hybrid

Data Engineer Mid 1

The Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer with proven data integration skills to develop and support Integration, ETL, Data Warehouse, as well as data driven services such as personalization or customer profiles offered as APIs and streams to other business units.

You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment where you will team up with colleagues having experience in Data Warehouse, Machine Learning and more.

The successful candidate should have good technical and problem solving skills, a positive and results driven attitude, a good communicator who can interact with both technical and non-technical people.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Be an effective team player of a Scrum Team - understanding and contributing to the agile delivery process and taking ownership of your team’s processes.
• To promote the production of reusable code and modules where appropriate with a view to maximising effort and reducing development costs applying principles of Agile delivery.
• To ensure risks and issues are identified in a timely manner and effectively communicated with proposed resolution and mitigation strategies to the Data Delivery Manager.
• Work as an effective member of a scrum team - understanding and contributing to the agile delivery process, and taking ownership for your team’s software quality from concept to production
• Write and maintain functional and technical specifications
• Monitor, optimize and trouble shoot database, microservice, stream and ML service performance
• Analyse code for problem resolution
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing

Experience & Qualifications:

Essential

• Good SQL knowledge and experience of relational databases
• Dimensional data modelling
• Demonstrable experience with high-volume data loads (terra bytes and above)
• Knowledge of ETL from highly transactional (1000s records/second) OLTP systems
• Good knowledge of object oriented in Python
• A proven ability to influence technical decisions in a fast moving commercial environment
• Demonstrates exceptional communication, interpersonal skills and consistent high energy levels
• Proven development skills in at least one of the following:
  • Microservices
  • Kafka or another message based streaming platform
  • Open-source NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB, ElasticSearch).
  • ETL tools such as Talend or Airflow
  • Machine Learning and analytics in either Python or Sagemaker
  • AWS (preferable) or experience of data engineering on another leading cloud vendor

such as GCP or Azure

• Experience of database performance analysis and design
• Unit testing knowledge
• Exposure to Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools (e.g. Go, Jenkins)

Desirable:

• Agile
• Knowledge of the online gaming/gambling industry
• Educated to degree level in a science or technology related field

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Proactive work ethic with the ability to deliver results and meet challenging deadlines
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self-motivating.
• Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced. 
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Good analytical skills.
• Enthusiasm for the software development process.
• Good English language skills.

What you can expect:

• 25 days of annual leave;

• Sharesave scheme;

• ”Flexible Benefits” of your choice;

• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);

• Free parking;

• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy';

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, in order to consider you for prospective role within the company.