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Are you a Senior Data Engineer with iGaming or Gambling experience, looking to build and scale modern data platforms?

BENEFITS: £80,000–£95,000 depending on experience, fully remote, excellent benefits package

You’ll be joining a fast-growing iGaming and online casino company operating a custom-built platform that supports millions of player interactions. The business is a recognised leader across sports betting and online casino, with a strong focus on performance, reliability and data-driven decision-making.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that underpin analytics, reporting and product insight across the organisation.

Core Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines to support analytics, product and reporting needs
Develop and optimise ETL/ELT processes for large volumes of player, game and transaction data
Work closely with data analysts and stakeholders to ensure data is reliable, accessible and well-structured
Improve data quality, monitoring and observability across the platform
Support real-time and batch data processing use cases
Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate data solutions with the wider platform
Ensure data architecture aligns with security, compliance and regulatory requirements
Contribute to data platform strategy, tooling decisions and best practiceRequired Experience & Expertise
Proven experience as a Data Engineer, ideally within iGaming, gambling or another regulated environment
Strong experience with SQL and modern data warehousing solutions
Experience building pipelines using tools such as Airflow, dbt or similar
Solid understanding of cloud platforms, ideally AWS
Experience working with event-driven or streaming data architectures is a plus
Strong grasp of data modelling, performance optimisation and scalability
Comfortable collaborating with analytics, product and engineering teams

Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity

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