Elite Soccer Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Pipelines

Sporting Kansas City; Palestine (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sporting Kansas City is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and a centralized data platform. You will enable reliable, accessible data for decision-making and integrate data from multiple providers and club systems.

You will collaborate with the Data and Analytics team, support reporting tools and dashboards, and work with the First Team Data Scientist to productionize models and ML projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science or related STEM subject.
• Significant experience in a Data Engineering role.
• Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines, data models and database schemas.
• Robust experience using SQL and Python for data cleaning, engineering, transformation and automation workflows.
• Experience with modern cloud-based data infrastructure (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience implementing data orchestration, version control and governance practices.
• Creative, proactive and collaborative problem solver.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and maintenance of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to support tools, platforms and reports.
• Ensure reliable and consistent data collection, validation, monitoring, testing, transformation and delivery processes.
• Lead high-quality data storage, version control, schema documentation and governance.
• Collaborate with IT for data protection and compliance policies.
• Continuously evaluate and improve workflows, infrastructure and practices for reliability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to stay current with engineering best practices.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

SQL & Python

Cloud data infrastructure

Data governance

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science or related STEM subject

Tools

SQL

Python

Azure/AWS/GCP

Tableau or data visualization

Job description

Sporting Kansas City is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines and a centralized data platform. You will enable reliable, accessible data for decision-making and integrate data from multiple providers and club systems.

You will collaborate with the Data and Analytics team, support reporting tools and dashboards, and work with the First Team Data Scientist to productionize models and ML projects.