Data Engineering Manager
As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead our team through BV Group’s transformation into a SAAS platform provider for gambling services. This strategic initiative is handing the team major increases in responsibility. In addition to maintaining an internal Data Warehouse and some deployed Data Science models, we must now start to provide data under contract to external clients and to maintain real-time data aggregation services as part of the new platform. By the end of 2026, we need to remodel our Data Warehouse and impose proper governance, formalise our external data contracts, migrate our internal reporting stack and build some major platform integrations. We are looking for a candidate with the experience, energy and enthusiasm to lead the team through this transformation.
- Management of Data Engineering projects through the scoping, solution design, development planning, and implementation phases.
- Line management of the data engineers. Including running engineering sprints, retrospectives and incident reviews.
- Technical oversight of Data Engineering’s stack. You’re responsible for data governance and integrity; setting development standards, practices and processes; ensuring stack availability and robustness; driving performance improvements (e.g., upgrades and migrations); and management of technical debt.
- Supporting the work of the Data Science and Reporting teams. Including providing custom data transformations to support their use cases.
- Collaboration with other Technology departments on cross-company projects.
- Management experience of data or software engineers, including strong communication skills. (required)
- Understanding of and experience with the full software development lifecycle. (required)
- Experience following software engineering best practices to develop and deploy applications written in Python. (required)
- Experience with the following technologies or some equivalent: Terraform, Git, GitLab (including CI/CD pipelines), GCP (particularly GKE, Firestore, BigQuery), Kafka and MongoDB and Airflow. (required)
- Ability to design and build complex data models. (required)
- Knowledge of querying data and building pipelines with SQL (ideally in BigQuery or similar database engines) and other tools, including working with very large data volumes. (required)
- Proactive, independent, responsible and attentive to detail. (required)
- Eager and able to learn, analyse, resolve problems, and improve the standard of BVGroup data infrastructure. (required)
BV Group (BetVictor) is an online gambling operator and B2B technology provider with roots dating back to 1946. Known for its pioneering approach, it was one of the first gambling companies to move its operations to Gibraltar and to build its product in-house. The company has run high-profile marketing campaigns and sponsors prestigious events across snooker, darts and horseracing. BV Group's operational headquarters are at the World Trade Center Gibraltar, where it employs around 700 people, making it one of the territory's largest employers.