Data Engineer
Entain is looking for a Data Engineer to design and build scalable, resilient data solutions that power analytics, marketing effectiveness measurement, and decision-making across Entain's industry-leading digital brands. The role sits within the Group Analytics Data Engineering Team, which builds and maintains the data products and infrastructure that support analytics, econometric modelling, marketing optimisation, and regulatory reporting across the business.
Working closely with analysts, data scientists, econometricians, and marketing stakeholders, the Data Engineer will help deliver robust data solutions that improve budget allocation, campaign performance, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that combines deep technical expertise with real business impact, working on large-scale data challenges that directly influence how Entain invests, grows, and innovates.
- Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transforming complex internal and external data into reliable, business-ready data products.
- Develop and enhance data quality frameworks, monitoring and validation processes to ensure accurate, timely and trusted data.
- Partner with business, marketing and technology teams to translate requirements into effective data solutions and challenge assumptions where needed.
- Contribute to solution architecture and technical design, owning delivery from discovery through to implementation and ongoing support.
- Collaborate with central data, platform and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement across processes, datasets and tools, increasing efficiency, reliability and business value.
- Communicate technical concepts and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Champion engineering best practices in testing, observability, documentation and maintainability to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
- Evaluate new data sources, technologies and approaches to expand analytical capabilities and shape the future data landscape.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, helping define requirements and deliver pragmatic solutions where processes and ownership models are evolving.
- Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines using SQL, Python, or similar technologies. (required)
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms, ideally Snowflake, or alternatives such as Databricks, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, or Azure Data Lake. (required)
- Experience developing cloud-based solutions, with AWS preferred, or equivalent experience in Azure or GCP. (preferred)
- Familiarity with data transformation and ELT frameworks, ideally dbt. (required)
- Experience implementing data quality, testing, monitoring, and observability solutions, with tools such as Monte Carlo. (required)
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools, preferably Prefect, or alternatives such as Airflow, Dagster, or Azure Data Factory. (preferred)
- Understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed data processing, and large-scale data platforms. (required)
- Experience with source control and CI/CD practices, ideally using GitLab, GitHub, or Azure DevOps. (required)
- Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker or Podman, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform. (required)
- Strong understanding of data modelling, warehousing, and analytics engineering best practices. (required)
- A regular bonus and great pension.
- 25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
- Extra paid leave, including wellbeing and development days.
- Life assurance and Income Protection.
- Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
- A stake in Entain's success through its ShareSave scheme.
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.