About Betfair Romania Development:
Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.
Our Values:
The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.
Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact
About Flutter UKI:
Flutter UK & Ireland are the UKI region of Flutter Entertainment. They unite a dozen brands including powerhouses Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and Sky Betting & Gaming, bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues, who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with proven data integration skills to develop and support Integration, ETL , Data Warehouse, as well as data driven services such as personalization or customer profiles offered as APIs and streams to other business units. You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment where you will team up with colleagues having experience in Data Warehouse, Machine Learning and more. The successful candidate should have excellent technical and problem solving skills, a positive and results driven attitude, a strong communicator who can interact with both technical and non- technical people.
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
Be an effective team player of a Scrum Team - understanding and contributing to the agile delivery process and taking ownership of your team’s processes.
Create and promote the use of behaviour/test-driven development at multiple levels within the software by pairing with production code developers and product owners.
To deliver excellent production quality code and encourage and mentor other developers to do so.
To be proactive in identifying holistic approaches across diverse programs, projects and technologies.
To promote the production of reusable code and modules where appropriate with a view to maximizing effort and reducing development costs applying principles of Agile delivery.
To be proactive in the identification of opportunities to improve and rationalize applications and processes across the whole Data team, working in close collaboration with other Data team members and subject matter experts.
To liaise closely with other Data team members and subject experts to ensure that accurate and effective support documentation is maintained to reflect code development and changes.
To ensure risks and issues are identified in a timely manner and effectively communicated with proposed resolution and mitigation strategies to the Data Engineering Manager.
To be proactive and drive the building of effective relationships across Data and key areas of the Paddy Power Betfair business stakeholder community.
Write and maintain functional and technical specifications.
Monitor, optimize and trouble shoot database, microservice and stream and ML service performance.
Analyze code for problem resolution.
Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:
Excellent SQL, preferably on both RDBMS and an MPP platform like Redshift or another big data platform like Hadoop.
Dimensional data modelling.
Demonstrable experience with high-volume data loads (terra bytes and above).
Knowledge of ETL from highly transactional (1000s records/second) OLTP systems.
Demonstrable experience of object oriented in Python.
A proven ability to influence technical decisions in a fast-moving commercial environment.
Demonstrates excellent people skills.
Demonstrates exceptional communication, interpersonal skills, and consistent high energy levels.
Proven development skills in at least one and preferably two or more of the following: Microservices, Kafka or another message
based streaming platform, Machine learning and analytics in either Python or Sagemaker, Open source NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB, ElasticSearch), ETL Tools such as Talend or Airflow, AWS (preferable) or experience of data engineering on another leading cloud vendor such as GCP or Azure.
Experience of database performance analysis and design.
Unit testing knowledge.
Exposure to Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools (e.g. Go, Jenkins)
Agile
Experience of large data warehouse (10 TB+) with multiple sources and outputs.
Knowledge of the online gaming/gambling industry.
Educated to degree level in a science or technology related field.
Proactive work ethic with the ability to deliver results and meet challenging deadlines.
Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
Self-motivating.
Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced.
Proven ability & desire to innovate.
Strong analytical skills.
Enthusiasm for the software development process.
Good English language skills
Benefits:
Hybrid & remote working options
€1,000 per year for self-development
Company share scheme
25 days of annual leave per year
20 days per year to work abroad
5 personal days/year
Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
Extended health, dental and travel insurances
Customized well-being programmes
Career growth sessions
Thousands of online courses through Udemy
A variety of engaging office events
Disclaimer:
We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. You don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements will be contacted for an interview.
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