Data Engineering Manager, Regulatory Compliance
Penn Interactive is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to join its Data Engineering team. This role involves partnering with Data Services, Analytics Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders to design and deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality data solutions. The position requires a leader with a strong background in computer science and a passion for data, particularly within the context of professional sports, betting, or eSports.
The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day operations of the data engineering team, providing mentorship, coaching, and performance management. They will serve as a primary point of contact for regulatory professionals, ensuring clear communication and adherence to strict deadlines and audit requirements. The role is responsible for managing cross-functional projects and contributing to the ongoing enhancement of data architecture and infrastructure.
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the data engineering team, providing goal setting, mentorship, AI assisted SDLC, coaching, leadership, guidance and performance management and feedback.
- Communicate professionally with several state and provincial regulatory professionals.
- Set clear expectations with regulators.
- Operate a high responsibility workstream with strict deadlines, and subjected to auditors.
- Collaborate with analytics, finance, compliance, and other engineering teams to build data pipelines, infrastructure and tooling to support Analytics initiatives.
- Prioritize and manage data-related projects cross-functionally from inception to delivery.
- Assist in the design and maintenance of data pipelines and contribute to the continual enhancement of the data engineering architecture.
- Collaborate with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.
- Stay current with trends, techniques, technology and other factors impacting data engineering as deemed necessary.
- Perform other duties as required.
- A solid foundation in data engineering science, with strong competencies in computer science, distributed systems, and software/system design (required).
- Minimum 3 years in a data oriented leadership or management role, combined with at least 5 years of experience in software/data development (required).
- Experience leading teams of 3 engineers or more (required).
- Experience in a regulated industry (preferred).
- Demonstrated time management, project management and problem solving skills, and experience using Atlassian and other agile tools (required).
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to various stakeholders, including non-technical members of the organisation (required).
- Excellent presentation and communication skills (required).
- Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and work with all levels of the organisation (required).
- Ability to make and defend priority calls with stakeholders based on technical assessment and regulatory need (required).
- Excellent teamwork and team building skills with a proven ability to delegate (required).
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools like Airflow, DBT, AWS Lambdas, etc (required).
- Strong Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, python, and docker (required).
- Experience with cloud platform (GCP, AWS), and related services (required).
- Systems design fundamentals plus working knowledge of data architecture and governance (required).
- Web experience (React, Django, Flask) (nice-to-have).
- Docker (nice-to-have).
- Machine learning concepts (nice-to-have).
- GCP (nice-to-have).
- AWS (nice-to-have).
- Kubernetes (nice-to-have).
- Teraform (nice-to-have).
- Competitive compensation package
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- Education and conference reimbursements
- Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
Penn Interactive is the online gaming arm of PENN Entertainment, one of the largest regional casino operators in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, it runs PENN's digital sports betting and online casino products, including theScore Bet and the Hollywood Casino online brands. The business previously operated the ESPN Bet sportsbook under a partnership with ESPN, which ended in late 2025. Penn Interactive combines proprietary technology - including theScore media platform - with PENN's nationwide casino network across North America.