Data Engineer

Graduate Recruitment Bureau; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports betting company, known for rapid growth, is hiring data engineers to enhance its data operations. You will work in a modern office environment in London, where your contributions will support critical projects using Python and Azure. Opportunities for career progression and team leadership await the successful candidate, who must possess strong technical skills and excellent communication.

Benefits

On-site barista

Regular visits from sports stars

Breakout rooms

Development and progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python or PySpark required.
• Experience in data engineering with a focus on Azure preferred.
• Significant skills in SQL, especially SQL Server, essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative features to meet business requirements in a data-driven environment.
• Participate in code reviews and manage junior team members.
• Work on multi-year projects across various departments.

Skills

Python

PySpark

Data Engineering

SQL

Communication Skills

Tools

Azure

C#

Job description

One of the world's leading sports betting companies, having experienced rapid success over the last decade and having grown their marketing spend exponentially, they are now a regular presence at high profile sporting events. They are now making significant hires across its data function to help drive commercial performance amid continued success.

The company operates a casual office environment in central London with an on-site barista, regular visits from leading sports stars, and breakout rooms throughout the complex. Fantastic development and progression opportunities mean that rapid promotions are common.

The Role

Sat in a sizeable team of data engineers, the work you produce will have real commercial impact as you ensure vast amounts of data are where they need to be to enable the fast-paced, data-driven environment of sports betting to continue. This includes developing innovative, cutting-edge features to meet business requirements or participating in code reviews within a high-calibre agile team.

Due to growth within the team, there is an opportunity to get involved with line managing junior members shortly after joining.

You will work on multi-year projects delivering cutting-edge solutions across departments such as customer, financials, and gameplay. Utilizing your expertise in Python and cloud technologies, particularly Azure, this role represents a great next step in your data engineering career.

The successful candidate will possess the following essential skills:

• Strong proficiency in Python or PySpark
• Data Engineering experience, ideally with an Azure background
• Significant experience with SQL (preferably SQL Server)
• Excellent communication skills capable of interacting with stakeholders of varying seniority

It would be desirable if you also possess:

• Experience with cloud-based tools, ideally Azure
• Experience with C#

PLEASE NOTE: Regrettably, this client is unable to offer Visa sponsorship

• Company: Graduate Recruitment Bureau (Hiring for client)
• Salary: £60-75K + discretionary bonus