Data Distribution Team Leader
Bet365 is looking for a Data Distribution Team Leader to mentor talented engineers and oversee the delivery of complex business projects, high-quality dashboards, reports, and data extracts across the organisation. The Data Distribution and Analytics department is responsible for transforming complex datasets into reliable reporting solutions, business dashboards, and data extracts across the organisation.
The successful candidate will manage sprint deliveries and guide an engineering team in modernising the data landscape. Working across BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Looker, Airflow, and a legacy Microsoft SQL Server estate, the Team Leader will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and ensure the team delivers high-quality work. This role is eligible for inclusion in Bet365's hybrid work from home policy.
- Line manage a team of data engineers, supporting their professional growth through regular coaching and appraisals.
- Direct sprint workflows, triaging and prioritising deliverables to meet project timelines.
- Ensure the team develop simple, efficient and robust solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure business requirements for data extracts and dashboards are accurate.
- Maintain high standards of data governance.
- Drive continuous improvements in team working practices, tooling and development processes.
- Ensure the quality and integrity of highly optimised datasets and reporting to support Board, Finance and regulatory requirements.
- Recent commercial experience in BigQuery, GCP, Looker, Airflow or Microsoft SQL Server (preferred).
- Experience leading Agile teams, managing sprint deliverables and ceremonies (required).
- Strong understanding of database design concepts and techniques with the ability to convert complex problems into simple solutions (required).
- Highly organised and adaptable, capable of managing multiple large-scale projects simultaneously (required).
- Adept at prioritisation, delivery and driving efficiency in a high throughput environment (required).
- Ability to understand technical vernacular and effectively communicate this to technical and non-technical staff (required).
- Collaborative leadership approach focused on coaching, mentoring and continuous team development (required).
- Experience within the Gaming industry (nice-to-have).
bet365 is one of the world's leading online gambling companies, founded in 2000 by Denise Coates CBE. The company employs over 9,000 people and serves more than 100 million customers in 27 languages, with a market-leading position built on its In-Play betting product. It offers betting across 96 sports and hundreds of thousands of streaming events, handling millions of requests and bets at peak times. Headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, England, bet365 is known for its software innovation and continues to develop its online betting and gaming platform.