DATA ENGINEER (LISBON-PORTUGAL)

Gaming1; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote up to 50%

International environment

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Gaming1 is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and operate data products that support decision-making across the company. You will work with SQL and PySpark, create dimensional models for reporting, and ensure data quality through automated tests.

You will join a Data Engineering team in a data-mesh environment, with opportunities to optimize pipelines, reduce costs, and share knowledge through documented code. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills and the ability to write and optimise complex queries.
• Experience with PySpark (or Python) in a data-engineering context.
• Solid data-modelling knowledge, including Kimball-style star schemas.
• Around 3–6 years of hands-on data-engineering experience, with the autonomy to own work from source to reporting-ready data.
• A collaborative mindset, clear communication skills and comfort working in the gaming industry.
• Professional English.

Responsibilities

• Build data products: design and develop pipelines and models in SQL and PySpark, from ingestion to analytics-ready tables.
• Model data: create clear dimensional models that analysts and Power BI reports can use directly.
• Own quality: implement tests based on business rules, investigate failed loads and improve reliability.
• Improve what exists: tune jobs, evolve schemas and pipelines, reduce compute costs, and leave the codebase better than you found it.
• Share knowledge: document your work in the project’s Git repository so it is easy to understand, maintain and reuse.

Skills

SQL

PySpark

Data modelling

Data engineering

English

Tools

Power BI

Airflow

dbt

Great Expectations

Job description

THE SCOPE

With 30 years of history, today Gaming1 is one of the international leaders in both land-based and online games of chance (casino games, sports betting and poker). Its evolution at the heart of innovation is accompanied by a diversification and specialization of positions, with the creation of new cutting-edge jobs.

THE SCOPE

With 30 years of history, today Gaming1 is one of the international leaders in both land-based and online games of chance (casino games, sports betting and poker). Its evolution at the heart of innovation is accompanied by a diversification and specialization of positions, with the creation of new cutting-edge jobs.

Gaming1 is looking for a Data Engineer to help us build reliable, scalable data products that support decision-making across the company while offering you a transparent career ladder and support to grow into your next role.

We use a data mesh approach: domains are accountable for their data, while shared platforms, standards and engineering practices help make it trusted and reusable. As part of the Data Engineering team, you will design, build and operate the data products and models that analysts and business teams rely on.

YOUR ROLE

• Build data products: design and develop pipelines and models in SQL and PySpark, from ingestion to analytics-ready tables.
• Model data: create clear dimensional models that analysts and Power BI reports can use directly.
• Own quality: implement tests based on business rules, investigate failed loads and improve reliability.
• Improve what exists: tune jobs, evolve schemas and pipelines, reduce compute costs, and leave the codebase better than you found it.
• Share knowledge: document your work in the project’s Git repository so it is easy to understand, maintain and reuse.

YOUR PROFILE

Must have:

• Strong SQL skills and the ability to write and optimise complex queries.
• Experience with PySpark (or Python) in a data-engineering context.
• Solid data-modelling knowledge, including Kimball-style star schemas.
• Around 3–6 years of hands-on data-engineering experience, with the autonomy to own work from source to reporting-ready data.
• A collaborative mindset, clear communication skills and comfort working in the gaming industry.
• Professional English.

Nice to have:

• Power BI experience, including semantic modelling, reporting or governance.
• Experience working in a data-mesh or other decentralised data organisation.
• Airflow or a similar orchestration tool.
• Automated data-quality testing, such as Great Expectations, Soda or dbt tests.

What We Offer

As well as enjoying a unique experience – centered around our values of Pleasure, Team Spirit, Performance, Boldness and Integrity – alongside 1.600 colleagues worldwide, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the international development of a fast-growing family company.

Joining Gaming1 means becoming part of a human and entrepreneurial adventure where people are empowered to make an impact, grow and succeed together.

We offer

• the opportunity to work on ambitious international projects within a solid and growing group
• a collaborative and high-performing work environment
• leadership based on trust, autonomy, talent and shared values
• continuous learning and career development opportunities through training and internal mobilitya competitive salary and benefits package aligned with the local market
• a hybrid working model, with the possibility to work remotely up to 50% of your working time
• an international and collaborative environment where people come first

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