Head of Data Engineering

Push Gaming is a dynamic and innovative game development studio specialising in creating top-quality, mobile-optimised online casino games. With a passion for gaming and a commitment to pushing boundaries, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences to players worldwide.

We are looking to hire a Head of Data Engineering to lead the data engineering function for our cloud-based gaming platform and help transform Push Gaming into a data-driven organisation. This covers a wide range of solutions including back office search & reporting functionality, business intelligence, real-time data streaming, and the creation of ETL pipelines to process and transform large volumes of data. Your responsibilities will include

Location: remote/hybrid in UK, Poland, Malta or Spain.

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Recruit, onboard and manage engineers to provide data solutions for our cross-functional platform teams, and ensure that we have sufficient capacity to achieve the company’s goals
• Identify and implement suitable training for data engineers
• Work with the Data Product Owner to understand the company’s data requirements and design high-level data architectures to support these
• Provide technical input and guidance for teams carrying out data engineering activities and project planning
• Promote and document best practices; contribute to the ongoing formation of the data engineering function’s processes and skill sets
• Assist with team code reviews to ensure all solutions developed meet the required standards
• Monitor compliance with any necessary information security policies and regulatory requirements for data management
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
• Identify areas of technical debt and work with the platform teams to address them

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 5 years in a senior data role
• Experience of dealing with large volumes of data in the order of 100+ GB/day from multiple operational data stores
• Experience of recruitment, line management & mentoring
• Python & Spark
• Experience of implementing event-driven data pipelines in AWS (other cloud platforms will be considered)
• Experience of implementing Kafka streaming applications
• RDBMS and NoSQL data stores
• SQL, including query optimisation
• Testing serverless applications in a cloud-based environment
• Infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code, preferably Terraform
• Source code management such as Git
• Continuous integration and deployment techniques
• Experience in architecture documentation

Why join us?

It’s a really exciting time to join Push Gaming. We’re expanding our teams to deliver some stellar work.

We are passionate about creating premium quality games and will never compromise on this. The approach we take in building and strengthening our team is no different. We set out to attract and retain high performers and are committed to seeking like-minded individuals who share our vision for excellence and quality.

In turn, we offer all the tools and support to allow individuals to grow and thrive, while achieving both personal and company goals in an environment that’s built around trust, collaboration, transparency and accountability.