Data Engineer: Cloud Platform for Football Analytics

Southampton Football Club Limited; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

2 free match tickets per home game

Staff health & wellbeing initiatives

Discounted club merchandise

26 days' holiday plus birthday off

Contributory pension scheme

Worldwide travel insurance

Learning & development opportunities

Free onsite parking

Cycle to Work Scheme

Collaborative & inclusive culture

Job summary

Southampton Football Club Limited is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to own and evolve the club's cloud-based data platform at Staplewood Campus. You will develop and maintain pipelines powering performance analytics, recruitment and sports science, while ensuring data quality and governance.

You will lead the implementation, collaborate with Data Scientists and coaching staff, and use Azure DevOps to maintain code integrity.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building scalable data pipelines with Python.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modelling concepts.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (Azure, Databricks).
• Understanding of data privacy, governance and quality standards.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of sporting data (GPS, event data, tracking data) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation and configuration of the football data platform and build robust pipelines.
• Ensure data quality, governance and compliance; perform DBA duties including tuning, backups and access management.
• Develop AI agents to monitor data pipelines and maintain code integrity via Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Sports Science teams to deliver requirements and document the platform.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data modelling

Azure Databricks

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Sporting data knowledge

Tools

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Job description

Southampton Football Club Limited is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to own and evolve the club's cloud-based data platform at Staplewood Campus. You will develop and maintain pipelines powering performance analytics, recruitment and sports science, while ensuring data quality and governance.

You will lead the implementation, collaborate with Data Scientists and coaching staff, and use Azure DevOps to maintain code integrity.