Gamesys
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London, Greater London
Data Engineer
Overview
Job Description
The Role We're looking for a hands on engineer with a passion for data to work alongside other developers, architects and machine learning engineers in an agile environment. You will be integrating 3rd party data platforms, building batch and streaming data pipelines for our Google cloud data platform and our enterprise data warehouse (IBM DB2), you will build a variety of services that drive intelligence into our internal and external products and platforms. You will work with scrum team members delivering elegant solutions and troubleshooting difficult problems. You will get to work with massive data sets and learn to apply the latest big data technologies on a leading edge platform. Responsibilities * Coding elegant strategic solutions which are reusable and easily maintainable * Peer reviewing other team member's code. * Attending stand-ups with key stakeholders - communicating the status of development and raising any potential risks as early as possible. * Producing clear and concise documentation where required. * Continuous learning * Sharing technical knowledge with other members of the Data Engineering Team. * Cultivating an understanding of the Gaming industry and playing our games to appreciate the players' experience and the context for our data solutions * Some 2nd line on-call support Competencies and experience required: Minimum: * Strong SQL/Procedural SQL/Data Warehousing experience * Demonstrable experience of data processing Python or Java * Good understanding of RESTful APIs and or streaming * Unix shell scripting (or alternative) experience * Has worked in a team that adhered to agile principles * Has demonstrated self-motivation/pro-activeness on a previous role * Good communication skills, including the ability to translate technical descriptions into something that can be understood by a non-technical business-facing team member * A keenness to understand how the technical task at hand translates into business value. * An innovator who is not afraid to put forward ideas for improving team process or suggest new features to the Product Owner Desirable experience * Cloud engineering * Delivering services as docker containers * Any data visualisation or BI platform engineering * Any javascript, node or angular * An interest or experience in the gambling industry * DB2 experience