Data Engineer III — Build Reliable, Impactful Data Pipelines

Fanaticsfbg; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Data Engineering team in London. You will work on Python ingestion pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and Snowflake/Databricks, moving data from source to decision-ready output with an emphasis on security and governance.

You will implement features, diagnose and fix pipeline issues, and contribute to code reviews. The role requires strong collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring of junior engineers, aligning with Fanatics' data strategy.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with solid experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Comfort investigating and root-causing pipeline issues independently.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools and a cloud data warehouse/lakehouse (Snowflake, Databricks, or similar).
• Solid understanding of data pipeline concepts: idempotency, schema evolution, backfills, and data quality/testing.
• Experience giving substantive code review feedback and strong communication.
• Track record of taking ownership of known-class problems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Implement new ingestion sources end-to-end against a senior engineer's design, extending the team's framework.
• Investigate pipeline failures independently and ship documented fixes.
• Identify downstream impact before shipping a pipeline and flag gaps during spec review.
• Provide clear handovers for unresolved issues with context for others.
• Review peers' pipeline PRs and catch non-obvious issues that affect data quality.
• Trace data lineage from source to warehouse and report findings clearly.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Airflow

Snowflake

Databricks

Data lineage

Code review

Security & PII

Communication

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Data Engineering team in London. You will work on Python ingestion pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and Snowflake/Databricks, moving data from source to decision-ready output with an emphasis on security and governance.

You will implement features, diagnose and fix pipeline issues, and contribute to code reviews. The role requires strong collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring of junior engineers, aligning with Fanatics' data strategy.