Big Data Engineer

Gaming Innovation Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the gaming industry as part of the Big Data Team, working with cutting-edge technologies on real-time data across multiple products. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance a platform that processes thousands of messages per second. If you're passionate about data and programming, this role offers great career opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Great career development opportunities

100% remote or hybrid working model

International Health Insurance

Health and Wellbeing Package

Birthday Day Off

Me Time - 1 day off per year

Free lunches in the office

Qualifications

• Experience with functional programming in Python or Scala.
• Ability to collaborate in scoping exercises.
• Mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with the agile team on platform objectives.
• Maintain and add features to a high-throughput platform.
• Follow best practices in delivering product increments.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Data modeling

ETL processes

CI/CD

Dockerized applications

Distributed version control

Team player

Meticulousness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache NiFi

ClickHouse

Linux

Windows

Unix

Job description

As part of the Big Data Team, you will be using cutting edge technologies to work on collating data across different sources within GiG. Sources are all in real time, and you will be supporting an event driven micro service lambda architecture.

Your focus is to work with the current agile team and contribute to the platform's objectives, while enabling other data technology stakeholders such as the Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Quality Assurance teams. You will be tasked with maintaining and adding new features to a platform that ingests up to 5000 messages per second across multiple products such as Lottery, Sports, and Casino.

Reporting to the Lead Big Data Engineer and supported by the Big Data Architect, you will follow best practices and deliver world-class product increments supporting our Tier 1 Platform.

You're really awesome at:

• Object-oriented programming (Java)
• Data modeling using any database technologies
• ETL processes, with experience in Apache Spark or Apache NiFi
• Applied understanding of CI/CD in change management
• Dockerized applications
• Using distributed version control systems
• Being an excellent team player
• Being meticulous and passionate about your work

You're also good at:

• Functional programming (experience with Python, Scala)
• Analytical mindset
• Low latency databases such as ClickHouse
• Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Collaborating in scoping exercises
• Mentoring skills
• Working with both Linux and Windows environments
• Unix/Linux expertise

What will you get in this role?

You'll contribute your ideas and knowledge, and if we're a good match, you'll receive a competitive salary and industry perks like daily lunch. Additionally, you'll work with top industry talent.

Benefits:

• Great career development opportunities
• 100% remote or hybrid working model
• International Health Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
• Birthday Day Off
• Me Time - 1 day off per year
• Free lunches in the office