Head of data engineering - remote

We are looking for a Head of Data Engineering to lead and become part of our growing Data Engineering team.
Expected 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.
Person profile:
  • 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.

  • Seniority LevelDirector
  • Industry
    • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
  • Employment TypeFull-time
  • Job Functions
    • Engineering
  • Skills

    • Python (Programming Language)
Company
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Location
London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Contract
Posted
Company
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Location
London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Contract
Posted