Senior Big Data Engineer
At GiG, a Senior Big Data Engineer is sought for a 6-month project within the Data department. The role involves taking ownership of the analysis, design, building, and support of major real-time big data projects.
The Senior Big Data Engineer contributes to the team's success through code reviews, promoting best practices, and implementing robust solutions across all aspects of big data endeavours. Embracing this vital role, the Senior Big Data Engineer is instrumental in driving data-driven excellence, harnessing the power of information for strategic decision-making, and fostering organisational growth and success.
- Design, create, and maintain ETL processes, data integrations, and data pipelines.
- Ensure seamless handling of vast amounts of data.
- Leverage extensive knowledge, the engineer develops high-performance services to efficiently process, store, and analyse large datasets using optimised code.
- Maintain data accuracy and reliability, takes the lead in designing and implementing data validation and quality checks tailored to meet specific business needs.
- Troubleshoot live production systems is a regular part of the engineer's responsibilities, ensuring smooth operations and swift issue resolution.
- Demonstrate an innovative spirit, the engineer actively tests and implements new technologies, staying abreast of the latest advancements relevant to current and future projects.
- Strong object oriented programming skills - ideally Python and/or Java (required)
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Nifi, and Big Data datastores (required)
- Strong understanding of schema design methodologies and data models (required)
- Expert in extracting large datasets using SQL, familiarity with SQL databases (required)
- Strong experience with cloud computed and/or distributed systems (required)
- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year
Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) is a business-to-business supplier of cloud-based iGaming platform and sportsbook technology, headquartered in St Julian's, Malta. The company provides a player-account-management platform, a sportsbook and real-time data tools to online gambling operators across more than 30 regulated markets. Following a 2024 strategic split that separated its media arm (now Gentoo Media), GiG operates as GiG Software, focused on platform and sportsbook products. It maintains offices across Malta, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Brazil, Canada and the Philippines.