Performance Data Engineer/Scientist

Department and salary

Department - Sport System Institute Services

Salary - £41,574.01 – £44,535.11 (pro rata)

Working Hours - 4 days (30 hours)

Type of Contract - 1 year fixed term

Location - Sport Wales National Centre, Cardiff

What you’ll need

We are seeking an experienced Performance Data Engineer with strong data science capability to support the design, development, and evolution of Sport Wales’ data environment across a diverse range of sports. This role will focus on building scalable data pipelines and systems that bring together data from multiple, often fragmented sources, enabling consistent, high-quality data to support performance decision-making

You will be responsible for designing and implementing efficient methods to ingest, process, and structure data from a variety of platforms, including athlete management systems, APIs, and wider digital tools. Through expertise in data integration, automation, and data modelling, you will create reliable, analytics-ready datasets that underpin both operational use and advanced analysis.

In addition, you will apply data science approaches, such as statistical analysis, exploratory data analysis, and applied modelling to help interpret athlete data and generate meaningful insights that inform athletic development, health, and athlete environment strategies.

You will play a key role in improving and standardising data workflows, maintaining data quality and integrity, and providing technical guidance on the effective use and development of data systems, including Teamworks AMS. Working across a connected performance ecosystem, you will ensure that data is accessible, consistent, and fit for purpose.

Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and sport system partners, you will build trusted relationships and translate complex data requirements into practical, scalable solutions. You will bring a continuous improvement mindset, challenging existing processes and contributing to the evolution of both data engineering and applied analytical practices to better support athlete development and performance outcomes.

Through your work you will directly contribute to a system that supports athletes to thrive and where ‘winning well’ is embedded across the Welsh high-performance system.

How you’ll contribute

Wales is a proud part of the UK high performance system and has achieved unprecedented recent success on the world stage. We want to create the most science-informed sporting system in the world, enabling all athletes in Wales to thrive and making 'winning well' more likely.

We’re clear on the crucial role that the environment can play in improving the experiences of athletes and we want to ensure that athlete development environments in Wales are better than anywhere else. If you’ve got a passion for sport and for helping people to be the best version of themselves then this could be the role for you, and we’d love to hear from you.

You will contribute by working closely with the Teamworks AMS Lead to enhance and evolve data systems, pipelines, and integration processes across the performance environment. In addition, you will help enable a deeper understanding of athlete development across pathways, combining strong data engineering with applied analytical approaches to generate meaningful, actionable insights. You will help to identify, explore, plan and deliver on projects that are aligned to our Institute purpose. You will support our learning around enhancing athlete development across pathways and our sharing of this with everyone that needs to know.

Who you’ll work with

You will need to develop strong relationships with members of the sport system institute services team, wider Sport Wales colleagues, coaches, and other staff in sports to deliver against identified data needs.

What happens next

You should read the full job description attached below.

Closing date 4th May 2026 9am

Provisional interview date 14th May 2026

About Sport Wales

Sport Wales is the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and physical activity in Wales. We are the main adviser on sporting matters to the Welsh Government and are responsible for distributing National Lottery funds. We aim to not only improve the level of sports participation at grassroots level but also provide our aspiring athletes with the support required to compete successfully on the world stage.

Our careers are funded by Welsh Government and the National Lottery. Find out more about Sport Wales’ relationship with the National Lottery.