Associate, Lead Data Engineer

Liverpool Football Club; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work

Season ticket loans

Discounts & cashback

Medicash Health Plan

Job summary

Liverpool Football Club is seeking a Associate, Lead Data Engineer to own design and evolution of the club's enterprise data platform. You will lead data pipelines, ETL, and data models across AWS services, ensuring reliable analytics and operational insight.

You will mentor nearshore/offshore teams and stay aligned with architectural standards. The role combines technical leadership with practical development, focusing on secure, scalable and maintainable data solutions while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in senior data engineering, warehousing, and ETL development.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, transformation, quality management, and cloud data platforms.
• Experience with software engineering best practices including version control, testing, and documentation.
• Agile experience and collaboration with offshore/nearshore/third-party teams.
• Ability to lead technically, challenge design decisions, and ensure secure, scalable solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for project management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality data engineering solutions through design, development, testing, code review, and documentation.
• Provide technical guidance to offshore teams and ensure alignment with standards.
• Identify risks and drive improvements in data engineering practices, quality, and reliability.
• Contribute to data warehouse design and evolution and translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, ETL processes, APIs, and data platform services.
• Work with AWS services (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Fargate) and SQL/Python.
• Ensure reliable data ingestion, transformation, and reporting for analytics and operations.
• Troubleshoot data quality, performance, and production issues.

Skills

Data engineering lead

Data warehousing

ETL development

Data modelling

Cloud data platforms

Python

SQL

AWS

Agile

Leadership

Offshore teams

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Liverpool FC team as a Associate, Lead Data Engineer. You will help to deliver, maintain, and enhance the club's enterprise data platform and data warehouse services. You will combine technical leadership with practical development, designing and supporting scalable data pipelines, ETL processes, data models, APIs, and AWS-based data solutions. Working across technologies including AWS S3, Lambda, Fargate, Glue, Redshift, SQL, and Python, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and ongoing evolution of the club's data capabilities. You will also provide technical oversight and day-to-day guidance to offshore development teams, ensuring solutions are well-designed, thoroughly tested, aligned with architectural standards, and maintainable for the long term.

What will you be doing?

Technical Delivery & Engineering Standards

• Ensure high-quality delivery of data engineering solutions through effective design, development, testing, code review, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance to offshore development teams, ensuring solutions meet Liverpool FC's engineering and architecture standards.
• Support technical decision-making, identify risks, and drive continuous improvements in data engineering practices, quality, and reliability.

Data Architecture & Design

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the data warehouse, data models, and overall data architecture.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable data solutions.
• Support data governance, lineage, quality, and performance best practices across the platform.

Data Engineering & Platform Development

• Develop and maintain data pipelines, ETL processes, APIs, and data platform services.
• Work with AWS technologies including S3, Lambda, Fargate, Glue, and Redshift, alongside SQL and Python.
• Deliver reliable data ingestion, transformation, and reporting solutions that support analytics, operational insight, and decision-making.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data quality, performance, and production support issues.

Data Quality & Operational Reliability

• Implement validation, reconciliation, and monitoring processes to ensure trusted, accurate data.
• Maintain reliable and observable production data services through effective logging, alerting, and incident management.
• Investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and document operational procedures and support processes.

Working with Distributed Teams

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and mentorship to nearshore and offshore delivery teams.
• Review and challenge solutions to ensure maintainability, performance, and alignment with delivery standards.
• Support planning, refinement, and prioritisation of data engineering activities.

Team Contribution

• Collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, developers, data teams, and third-party partners.
• Maintain technical documentation and share knowledge across the team.
• Support knowledge transfer from external partners and contribute to the growth of internal data engineering capability.

Who are we looking for?

Essential Knowledge

• Extensive experience in senior data engineering, data warehousing, and ETL development roles.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, transformation, quality management, and cloud-based data engineering platforms.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices including version control, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with offshore, nearshore, or third-party teams.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, challenge design decisions, and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and high quality.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for project and delivery management.

Essential Functional / Technical Skills

• Advanced SQL skills covering optimisation, transformation, modelling, validation, and reconciliation.
• Strong Python development skills for data engineering, automation, ETL, and API integrations.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS data services including S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and Fargate, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience developing and supporting APIs and cloud-based data platforms.
• Proven capability in data quality management, production support, and data pipeline operations.
• Experience with Git-based version control, CI/CD practices, deployment processes, and operational support.

Desirable

• Experience leading or overseeing offshore and nearshore delivery teams.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with Java or other backend programming languages.
• Understanding of cloud security, including IAM, access management, and secrets management.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, catalogue, BI, and analytics tools.
• Experience in high-volume sectors such as e-commerce, media, sport, consumer, or membership organisations.
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence for data platforms and pipelines.

Why should you apply?

This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week. Your main base will be our City centre office on Chapel Street.

• Contributory pension scheme matching up to 5.5%
• Life Assurance Cover
• Free financial guidance and mortgage advice
• Car salary sacrifice scheme for affordable driving
• Cycle to Work scheme to keep you active
• Purchase season ticket loans for easier commuting
• Exclusive shopping discounts & cashback with top retailers
• Will Writing Service for future planning
• Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Medicash Health Cash Plan for everyday healthcare needs
• Volunteering opportunities to give back to the community
• Special LFC perks – retail discounts, partner offers, free LFCTV GO access, and priority tickets for matches, events & concerts

…and much more! LFC Benefits.pdf

At Liverpool Football Club, we have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and are always looking to making a positive difference in the communities that we operate within. We are proud of our achievements in this area; maintaining the Premier League Equality Standard Advanced Level, becoming a founding signatory of the Football Association’s Football Leadership Diversity Code and being recognised as a leader in this important area on and off the pitch. We take our responsibilities in this area seriously and through the work being done across the club, we are committed to increasing the diversity of our people and becoming an increasingly inclusive workplace for all. We are committed to hiring great people representative of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills across our entire business. If you share our enthusiasm and passion for inclusivity, then we want to hear from you.

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