Senior Data Engineer

Allwyn Lottery Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Well-being allowance

Flexible working options

Extensive training resources

Job summary

Allwyn Lottery Solutions seeks an experienced data engineer to architect and deploy AWS serverless data pipelines for real-time streams and analytics, serving international clients. You will integrate marketing tech including a real-time CDP, and lead data ingestion, processing, and monitoring across the stack.

You will also mentor application support staff and collaborate with developers to enhance the gaming platform integration, ensuring robust, cost-efficient, and scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• Advanced AWS Serverless design and development experience is required.
• Experience with streaming technologies (SQS, Kinesis, MSK).
• Experience with NoSQL stores (DynamoDB) and serverless compute (Lambda/Glue).
• Orchestrating serverless compute with MWAA and Step Functions.
• SQL data stores such as Athena and Aurora; storage in S3.

Responsibilities

• Architect robust data ingestion streams for real-time processing and analytics.
• Contribute to platform data models (logical/physical).
• Develop ETL/ELT routines for analytics.
• Build integrations to APIs, flat files, ERP/e-commerce/CRM systems.
• Collaborate with developers to enhance gaming platform integration.
• Support testing and deployment processes.
• Develop automated monitoring, fault recovery, and diagnostics.
• Document outputs and mentor local support specialists.

Skills

AWS Serverless

Python

Data modeling

Pandas

SQL (Athena/Aurora)

Streaming (Kinesis)

NoSQL (DynamoDB)

Lambda

MWAA/Step Functions

S3 storage

APIs

CloudWatch

IAM

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS

Python

Glue

Lambda

Kinesis

S3

DynamoDB

Athena

Aurora

MWAA

Step Functions

Pandas

Job description

Allwyn Lottery Solutions is aglobal leader in digital lottery and gaming solutionsand a proud subsidiary ofAllwyn Entertainment Group, a multinational lottery operator with a strong presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, and Italy.

Our mission is tomake play better for allby developing cutting-edge technology that enhances player experiences, drives engagement, and maximizes returns for good causes.

What We Do

We design and deliverinnovative, scalable, and securelottery solutions that evolve with the needs of players and operators. Our flagship platform,Genesis, provides a powerful foundation for lotteries worldwide, featuring:

• Player Account Management (PAM)for secure and seamless player experiences
• Draw-Based Games (DBG)for classic lottery draws
• Nexus Aggregator & Apollo RGSfor e-Instants and Fast Play™ games
• Web & mobile applicationsfor an enhanced and modern user experience
• Command Admin Portalfor streamlined operations
• Optex Promotionsto reward and engage players

With a focus oncloud-based technologies, AI-driven analytics, and responsible gaming, we empower lotteries toreach new players, expand engagement, and achieve sustainable growthin an evolving digital landscape.At Allwyn Lottery Solutions, you'll be part of a forward-thinking, collaborative, and innovative team that is shaping the future of iLottery.

This role will be central to shaping the collection, storing, processing, and analysis of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on architecting serverless AWS solutions for data streams, then developing, testing, implementing, and deploying them to our international clients. The role will lead data integration with our marketing technologies including our real time CDP.

The Engineer will take a holistic view of their deliverables and provide 3rd line support to clients to help monitor, diagnose and continuously improve our data products. To be successful, the target candidate will have extensive and broad experience across the full stack of AWS data products. The candidate will have worked with traditional data warehousing, ERP systems, high volume e-commerce sites, digital marketing data sets and a variety of BI and Analytic tools.

Purpose of Role

• To architect robust data ingestion streams for real time data processing, marketing technology and analytics
• Contribute to the platform logical and physical data models
• Develop ETL, ELT routines for structured analytics
• Develop a range of integrations to APIs, flat files and other external systems to support broader ecosphere
• Work with software developers to enhance gaming platform integration
• Support testing and deployment
• Develop automated monitoring, fault recovery and diagnosis
• Document output to a high level
• Mentor and train localised application support specialists

Department

• Part of the Allwyn Lottery Solutions BI and CRM Product Unit, the team's objective is to deliver continuous support and enhancements to our customers' analytics and CRM capabilities, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved customer engagement

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development of AWS data solutions
• Lead adoption of new integration and data technologies
• Input into the AWS technology roadmap and strategy
• Champion best practice and standardisation of development
• Deliver best in class solutions in terms of robustness, recovery and resilience
• Deliver continuous improvement to development methodologies and automation

Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Advanced AWS Serverless design and development experience specifically
• Streaming technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, MSK
• NoSQL stores such as DynamoDB
• Serverless compute development with Lambda and Glue
• Orchestration of serverless compute with MWAA and Step functions
• SQL data stores such as AWS Athena and Aurora
• Storage solutions, mainly S3
• API development
• System monitoring with Cloudwatch
• Roles and Policies with IAM
• ML and AI with Sagemaker and Bedrock
• Advanced knowledge of Python and popular libraries such as Panda Data Frames
• Awareness of AWS prices and charges to enable development of cost effective solutions
• Experience of developing high volume and highly scalable data integrations using a variety of techniques and technologies including files, SQL, queues and APIs
• Experience with integrating to ERP, Ecommerce and CRM integrations over a range of interfaces and formats including SQL, JSON, XML and CSV
• Strong experience with performance tuning and monitoring techniques at an application and data platform level
• Highly developed data modelling and SQL skills

Characteristics

• Problem Solving: Solve unique and complex problems with a focus on business impact
• Curious about new and upcoming technologies with the willingness to access, learn and integrate them into existing systems
• Flexible and capable of working unsupervised alone or in small teams in situations where priorities and workload can change quickly
• Continuous Improvement: Develops strategies to address iterative improvement
• Influence: Uses industry experience and analytics to authoritatively make recommendations and drives those through
• Decision Making: Makes decisions guided by both internal policies and external industry guidelines in non-standard situations. Develops business or discipline specific rationale that impacts resource allocation, programme or project support and direction
• Project Management: Leads projects or programmes with significant risk and complexity to achieve milestones and objectives.Develops the strategy for project execution

Benefits

• A dynamic team of experts who'll support your growth and share your ambition.
• A diverse, international environment full of opportunity and challenge.
• A comprehensive onboarding experience to set you up for success.
• Competitive salary with a performance-based bonus.
• Health and life insurance for you and your family.
• Well-being allowance.
• Extensive leave policy to support work-life balance.
• Unlimited training resources and tools to support your development.
• 360° feedback framework to help you grow your impact.
• Employee Assistance Programme with professional counselling support.
• Flexible working options.
• A modern tech setup including Apple equipment and best-in-class tools.
• A stable, enjoyable working environment where delivery is valued.

We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Allwyn values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. We make employment decisions based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications - never on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, religion, or background.

In 2025, Allwyn Lottery Solutions in Greece was recognised as one of the Great Place to Work® Hellas Best Workplaces™ for Women, highlighting our commitment to building inclusive, supportive environments where all employees can thrive.

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