Senior Data Engineer

FanDuel
Edinburgh
1 month ago
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THE POSITION

FanDuel is looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer with deep understanding of large-scale data handling and processing best practices in a cloud environment to help us build scalable systems. As our data is a key component of the business used by almost every facet of the company, including product development, marketing, operations, and finance. It is vital that we deliver robust solutions that ensure reliable access to data with a focus on quality and availability.


Our competitive edge comes from making decisions based on accurate and timely data and your work will provide access to that data across the whole company. Looking ahead to the next phase of our data platform we are keen to do more with real time data processing and working with our data scientists to create machine learning pipelines.


THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play


Build & Maintain Data Pipelines

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and stream data pipelines to support analytics and business operations that can easily support millions of transactions during peak business hours.
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and test cases using tools like Python, SQL, and Spark.
  • Ensure data is reliable, accurate, and delivered in a timely manner.

Collaborate Across Teams

  • Work with data analysts, data scientists, and product managers to understand requirements and deliver actionable data solutions
  • Translate business questions into engineering tasks and contribute to technical planning.
  • Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives as part of an agile team.

Data Quality & Operations

  • Monitor data pipelines and troubleshoot issues in a timely, systematic manner
  • Implement data quality checks and contribute to observability and testing practices
  • Document data sources, transformations, and architecture decisions to support long-term maintainability

THE STATS

What we’re looking for in our next teammate



  • 5+ years of experience writing Python scripts
  • 5+ years' experience working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
  • Show proficiency understanding complex ETL processes
  • Demonstrate the ability to optimize processes (ram vs io)
  • Knowledge of data integrity and relational rules
  • Experience in setting up self-healing and resilient data pipelines using Airflow, monitoring and alerting using Monte Carlo, PagerDuty and DataDog.
  • Understanding of AWS and Google Cloud
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies is critical
  • Proficiency with agile or lean development practices

PLAYER CONTRACT

We treat our team right


FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer, and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.


ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada.


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.


FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email .


The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!


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