Data Engineer

Kitman Labs Ltd.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance for employee & dependants

Meaningful equity

Pension Plan

Life Cover

Income protection

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Kitman Labs Ltd. in Manchester is hiring a Mid-Level Data Engineer to evolve their data platform. Your role will encompass building and maintaining data models, developing robust data pipelines, and supporting Data Scientists for production ML workloads.

You will work on a GCP-native stack including BigQuery and Dataform. Ideal candidates should be SQL proficient, have hands-on experience with GCP, and enjoy collaborative problem-solving.

This position allows for remote work with occasional onsite gatherings.

Qualifications

• Comfortable writing complex, performant SQL queries against large datasets.
• Strong experience with Dataform or willingness to work in it.
• Hands-on experience with GCP tools, especially BigQuery.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Cloud Composer or Airflow.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and medallion architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain BigQuery data models and dashboards.
• Contribute to robust data pipelines using Python.
• Support Data Scientists in productionizing ML workloads.
• Implement data quality checks and observability practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on data projects.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Dataform experience

Python with engineering mindset

GCP familiarity

Orchestration experience

Data modelling fundamentals

Docker basics

Collaborative and communicative

Pragmatic approach to AI tooling

Tools

BigQuery

Dataform

Cloud Composer

Airflow

Docker

Job description

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential of the world's top athletes.

Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry's top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers.

Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.

Data Engineer

We're looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our team and help build and evolve our data platform. You'll work across analytics engineering, data pipelines, and data quality — collaborating closely with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product to turn raw data into reliable, scalable foundations.

What You’ll Work On

Analytics Engineering & Reporting

• Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
• Contribute to Looker dashboards and LookML models, working alongside senior engineers and analysts
• Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
• Implement data quality checks using Dataform assertions and automated alerting
• Support data observability across the warehouse — monitoring pipeline health, data freshness, and anomaly detection

Data Pipelines & Ingestion

• Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration
• Work with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow) to schedule and monitor workflows
• Develop familiarity with CDC concepts and event-driven ingestion patterns (Datastream, Pub/Sub)
• Containerise workloads with Docker for deployment on Cloud Run or similar GCP services

Data Science Collaboration

• Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline
• Contribute to feature pipelines and data preparation for ML workloads
• Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, maintainable code

What We're Looking For

• SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery
• Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform; understanding of modular, version-controlled data transformation
• Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code; comfortable with Git and CI/CD workflows
• GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential; broader GCP exposure (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream) is a strong advantage
• Orchestration experience — hands-on with Cloud Composer, Airflow, or a comparable tool
• Data modelling fundamentals — dimensional modelling, Kimball principles, or medallion architecture patterns
• Docker basics — able to containerise and deploy data workloads
• Collaborative and communicative — able to translate business requirements into data models and work effectively with Analytics, Product, and Data Science stakeholders
• Pragmatic approach to AI tooling — comfortable using AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality

Nice to have

• Looker / LookML experience
• Familiarity with CDC concepts and tools (Datastream, Debezium)
• Exposure to ML frameworks or MLOps tooling (scikit-learn, MLflow, Vertex AI)
• AWS experience as a complement (Redshift, Glue, RDS) — we value engineers who can draw on cross-cloud perspective
• Curiosity about sports performance data

Why this role?

You'll work on a modern GCP-native stack — BigQuery, Dataform, Looker, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run — with room to grow into platform ownership, CDC pipelines, and MLOps as your experience develops. We care about clean code, good data, and pragmatic engineering over perfection.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance for employee & dependants
• Meaningful equity
• Pension Plan
• Life Cover
• Income protection
• Wellbeing benefits

Location

While this role allows for remote work, occasional face‑to‑face gathering is recommended.

Diversity

In addition to building a team with diverse skill‑sets, Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, civil or family status, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please let us know.

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