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Head of data engineering - remote

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Oxford
2 days ago
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We are looking for a Head of Data Engineering to lead and become part of our growing Data Engineering team.

Responsibilities
  • Day-to-day management of engineering projects within BI, including contributing expertise to project planning and architectural solutions.
  • Line management of the data engineers.
  • Running engineering sprints and retrospectives; assistance with incident reviews.
  • Technical oversight of the BI stack. Including data governance and integrity (incl. data contracts and variations); setting development standards, practices and processes; ensuring stack availability and robustness; driving performance improvements (e.g., upgrades and migrations); and management of technical debt.
  • Collaboration with Data Science and Reporting (within BI) to facilitate the work of those teams and their deployments.
  • Collaboration with other technology departments on cross-team projects.
Qualifications
  • Management experience of teams of data engineers.
  • Detailed experience as a data engineer.
  • Python application development.
  • Web-based development platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab), including CI/CD pipelines.
  • Cloud platforms such as GCP (ideally having covered BigQuery, Kubernetes and Firestore).
  • Configuration of cloud infrastructure (e.g., with Terraform).
  • Messaging services (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
  • NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB and Firestore).
  • SQL querying (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake), including the ability to work with complex data structures and very large data volumes.
  • Orchestration services (e.g., Airflow, Luigi, Cloud Compose).
  • Proactive, independent, responsible and attentive to detail.
  • Eager and able to learn, analyse, resolve problems, and improve the standard of BVGroup data infrastructure.
  • Degree in a scientific or quantitative field.
  • Ideally knowledge of sports betting and familiarity with gaming data.
Job details
  • Seniority Level: Director
  • Industry: Gambling Facilities and Casinos
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Job Functions: Engineering
  • Skills: Python (Programming Language)


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