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Data Engineer

Entain
City of London
3 days ago
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Company Description

Angstrom is a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, building intricate, simulation driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group. Founded in 2018 and acquired by Entain in 2023, Angstrom operates as a semi‑autonomous division focused on the US market, delivering the most advanced pricing and risk capabilities. We are committed to building the next generation of sports betting products—sports‑first, recreationally‑focused, and designed to make betting more engaging, more intelligent, and more fun. We pride ourselves on being a high‑performing, low‑ego team where brilliant people are empowered and work to become brilliant.

Job Description

The purpose of this role is to implement and maintain data infrastructure that facilitates data‑driven decision making, innovation and operational efficiency while ensuring that the data pipeline is secure, reliable, and scalable. The role holder will build and maintain high‑performance data systems that are foundational to driving business growth and success. The successful candidate will have a strong grasp of modern data modelling practices, analytics tooling, and interactive dashboard development in Power BI and Plotly/Dash.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement scalable data architectures and systems to support business intelligence and analytics needs.
  • Develop, optimise, and maintain ETL pipelines for efficient data integration and transformation.
  • Oversee data storage solutions, including backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
  • Write and manage SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and analyse data for reporting and decision‑making.
  • Implement robust data security and privacy protocols in compliance with relevant regulations and best practices.
  • Collaborate with clients and end users to gather requirements, provide updates, and deliver tailored data solutions.
Qualifications
  • Proficient in writing clean, efficient, and maintainable SQL and Python code, particularly for data transformation and analytics use cases.
  • Understanding of data modelling concepts and ability to design data models that are optimised for different user cases.
  • Familiarity with SQL and experience (2+ years) working with and designing relational databases.
  • Experience (1+ year) implementing data pipelines that run on Kafka or equivalent distributed event store and stream‑processing platforms.
  • Ability to debug and optimise failing or slow data pipelines and queries.
  • Systems integration experience (1+ years): networking, data migrations, API integration and design.
  • Enthusiasm for clean systems, including documentation, logging, and reproducibility.
  • Experience (2+ years) working with AWS S3, Athena, ECS, CloudFormation, Lambda & CloudWatch.
  • Familiar with analytics tools such as Power BI, Plotly/Dash, or similar for building interactive and impactful visualisations.
  • Passion for TDD.
Additional Information

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.

Benefits
  • Generous group bonus scheme
  • Hybrid working
  • Private medical insurance
  • Pension Scheme – matched to 6 %
  • Ability to buy and sell holiday
  • Free subscription to the wellbeing app Unmind
  • Entain & Enhance days
  • Sharesave Scheme
Location

London, England, United Kingdom

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.


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