Head of Data Engineering

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

Push Gaming seeks a Head of Data Engineering to lead the data engineering function for its cloud-based gaming platform. Responsibilities include recruiting and managing engineers, designing data architectures, providing technical guidance, promoting best practices, ensuring data compliance, and identifying areas for improvement. This role requires experience with large data volumes (100+ GB/day), AWS (or other cloud platforms), ETL pipelines, Kafka, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, and various technologies such as Python, Spark, and Terraform. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of senior data engineering experience and strong leadership skills.
Must have:
  • 5+ years senior data role
  • 100+ GB/day data handling
  • AWS (or other cloud) experience
  • Python & Spark expertise
  • Kafka streaming applications
  • RDBMS & NoSQL experience
  • SQL & query optimization
  • Team management & mentoring
Good to have:
  • Terraform
  • Serverless testing
  • Git, CI/CD

Job Details

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.

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About The Company

Creators of innovative and thrilling slot games. Push Gaming knows exactly what it takes to truly entertain!

Our players are extremely important to us, and we are not afraid to take risks so that we can offer them the very best.

How exactly do we do this?

We place key emphasis on creating games that are of a high quality in every way possible. This means that all our game themes are engaging, our features unique and captivating, and our art, stunning and precise.

We don't cut corners and do whatever is necessary to offer a memorable gameplay experience on mobile and on any other device being used.

Having partnered up with some of the most influential operators in the industry, we are well on our way to getting our innovative and engaging content out there as much as possible for all players to enjoy.

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