Lead Data Engineer

Allwyn Lottery solutions enable our customers to drive growth in their lotteries through data. Our lotteries continue to invest in market leading people, technology and platforms to provide industry leading real time Data platforms. Through analytics our customers drive product development and optimise customer acquisition, retention and experience on our web, mobile and retail channels.

This role will be central to shaping the collection, storing, processing, and analysis of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on architecting serverles AWS solutions for data streams, then developing, testing, implementing, and deploying them to our international clients. The role will lead data integration with our marketing technologies including our real time CDP.

The Engineer will take a holistic view of their deliverables and provide 3rd line support to clients to help monitor, diagnose and continuously improve our data products. To be successful, the target candidate will have extensive and broad experience across the full stack of AWS data products. The candidate will have worked with traditional data warehousing, ERP systems, high volume e-commerce sites, digital marketing data sets and a variety of BI and Analytic tools.

Purpose of Role

• To architect robust data ingestion streams for real time data processing, marketing technology and analytics
• Contribute to the platform logical and physical data models
• Develop ETL, ELT routines for structured analytics
• Develop a range of integrations to APIs, flat files and other external systems  to support broader ecosphere
• Work with software developers to enhance gaming platform integration 
• Support testing and deployment
• Develop automated monitoring, fault recovery and diagnosis
• Document output to a high level
• Mentor and train localised application support specialists

Department

Part of the Allwyn Lottery Solutions BI and CRM product unit. The team’s objective is to provide ongoing support to our customers' analytics and CRM capability.

Key Accountabilities 

• Lead the development of AWS data solutions

• Lead adoption of new integration and data technologies

• Input into the AWS technology roadmap and strategy

• Champion best practice and standardisation of development

• Deliver best in class solutions in terms of robustness, recovery and resilience 

• Deliver continuous improvement to development methodologies and automation

Requirements

• Advanced AWS Serverless design and development experience specifically

  • Streaming technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, MSK
  • NoSQL stores such as DynamoDB
  • Serverless compute development with Lambda and Glue 
  • Orchestration of serverless compute with MWAA and Step functions 
  • SQL data stores such as AWS Athena and Aurora
  • Storage solutions, mainly S3
  • API development 
  • System monitoring with Cloudwatch
  • Roles and Policies with IAM
  • ML and AI with Sagemaker and Bedrock

• Advanced knowledge of Python and popular libraries such as Panda Data Frames

• Awareness of AWS prices  and charges to enable development of cost effective solutions 

• Experience of developing high volume and highly scalable data  integrations using a variety of techniques and technologies including files, SQL, queues and APIs

• Experience with integrating to ERP, Ecommerce and CRM integrations over a range of interfaces and formats including SQL, JSON, XML and CSV

• Strong experience with performance tuning and monitoring techniques at an application and data platform level

• Highly developed data modelling and SQL skills 

Characteristics

• Problem Solving: Solve unique and complex problems with a focus on business impact

• Curious about new and upcoming technologies with the willingness to access, learn and integrate them into existing systems 

• Flexible and capable of working unsupervised alone or in small teams in situations where priorities and workload can change quickly

• Continuous Improvement: Develops strategies to address iterative improvement

• Influence: Uses industry experience and analytics to authoritatively make recommendations and drives those through

• Decision Making: Makes decisions guided by both internal policies and external industry guidelines in non-standard situations. Develops business or discipline specific rationale that impacts resource allocation, programme or project support and direction

• Project Management: Leads projects or programmes with significant risk and complexity to achieve milestones and objectives.Develops the strategy for project execution

Benefits

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• Be part of  a dynamic team with  enthusiastic experts that will support your talent and growth

• Embark on a journey within a diverse environment full of opportunities and challenges

• Comprehensive onboarding experience designed to facilitate your smooth transition

• Attractive salary and a bonus plan

• Health and life insurance for you and your family

• Well-being allowance

• Monthly lunch allowance

• Developmental 360° feedback framework

• Unlimited Training options and tools

• Extensive leave plan

• Employee Assistance Program with specialized Counselors / Licensed Psychologists

• Enjoyable and stable working environment

• Flexible working arrangements (fully remote/hybrid)

• Modern workspace environment

• Apple equipment and top-notch office technology to support our hybrid working 

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimization in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

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