Join the Exciting Journey at tombola! 🚀

Are you ready to be a part of something extraordinary? As tombola continues its remarkable growth, we're on the hunt for a Data Engineer.

The Data Engineer is a key role within the Data department in the Tech team at tombola. This role will report directly into our Lead Data Engineer, and will crucial incite into helping build our data capability.

Find your bounce at tombola! 🎱

At tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future.

It’s not just our digital bingo balls that have loads of bounce. Our people do, too. Whatever your role, it’s the kind of place that can put a spring in your step.

Whether you're developing game mechanics, keeping our players safe, testing our products or sponsoring one of the UK's biggest TV shows, how high and how far you bounce really is up to you.

What do we offer? 💰

We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing! 

As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more. 

You can find out more about our benefits and what it's like to work for us here.

Sounds great! What will I be doing? 🔎

Role purpose

• Be part of the Data Engineering team at tombola, in delivering a market leading customer data platform.
• To deliver data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof
• To implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• To work with commercial, product and analytics teams to define, produce and maintain data models around the business
• Be a team player and support deliver the data engineering strategy that enables tombola to deliver on its business objectives
• To optimize and develop the data pipeline that makes tombola’s various online data sources available for consumption by key stakeholders around the business.
• To work with development and engineering teams to ensure quality and availability of raw data sources
• To work with security, data protection and compliance teams to ensure a secure and compliant data architecture is maintained, in line with gambling license requirements and industry best practices

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to facilitate building data models that provide useful data and insights to key business stakeholders, external stakeholders and regulators

• Working with Data Analysts in delivering an efficient data model to be used for analytics and reporting
• Collaborating with immediate team and wider teams to support data queries and requests
• Participate in team’s Sprint ceremonies and commit to timely delivery of tasks / objectives
  

• Working with key business stakeholders and analysts to gather data requirements
• Defining and documenting key logical and physical data models
• Produce and maintain a metadata repository for use within various departments across the business
• Ensure that the principles of security-by-design and privacy-by-design are followed

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in designing, building and testing data products based on feeds from multiple systems, using a range of different storage technologies, access methods or both

• Experience maintaining and documenting large data sets
• Experience managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in Cloud Technologies
• Experience in ETL, Orchestrator tools like Airflow, AWS Glue etc.
• Understand the concepts and principles of data modelling.
• Experience in modern data warehouse technologies like redshift, databricks etc
• In depth SQL knowledge.
• Streaming frameworks like Kafka, Kinesis etc
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices across Data Engineering field and awareness of where this discipline relates and adds value to other business domain areas
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams
• Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement
• Knowledge of iGaming industry and regulatory requirements would be a huge advantage
• Experience with a broad range of technologies would be a huge advantage. Some of the tools / technologies we use are Python, git, dbt, Docker, SQL Server, AWS

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Expert communicator. Can communicate progress of complex projects to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrate high degree of empathy and emotional intelligence
• You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude and the ability to use own initiative
• Have a “down to earth” working style
• Good attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Spirit of fun and engagement

At tombola we know that our differences make us stronger and that thinking differently is key to long term success. We work hard to create a culture of inclusivity where everyone can celebrate our Free to be me value. We are committed to creating opportunities for everyone here at tombola, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage individuals to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.