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This is an exciting time to join a global online sports betting brand! As they have gone through a period of sustained growth over the past three years, doubling staff numbers and quadrupling online spend, resulting in brand awareness sky rocketing both domestically and internationally.

Customer welfare is forever at the forefront of their strategy, and they want to ensure that all of their customers enjoy their products in a safe and responsible gambling environment.


A non-corporate company culture with a casual dress code of trainers and jeans. The office is full of fun employee benefits, including their own barista, foosball and ping-pong tables and break-out working areas. This company also offers social benefits, including trips to sports events and celebrity visits.


**The Role**


Reporting into the Enterprise Cloud Architect, within a team of 7, this newly created role is pivotal in you owning the Databricks strategy and how it’s used to innovate across their brands. You’ll design and develop data frameworks, power real-time data pipelines, and create data services that deliver actionable insights to their customer base


You will create and own a Databricks strategy for the group, ensuring that the use of the product is aligned with business goals and leveraged to maximize value. You’ll also own and be responsible for all Databricks-related activities, acting as the architect across the Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and Data Science teams.


**Your Profile**

A background in data architecture


Experience of unity catalogue
Advanced knowledge of Azure Databricks
Expertise in infrastructure code, ideally Terraform but alternatives considered too

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