Data Engineer
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Reference ID: JR103332
ApplyOur DevOps culture is strong: we believe in “release small, release often.” Thanks to our fully automated CI/CD pipelines, we push over 13,000 releases to production every year, delivering value to customers in real time. We use modern technologies across backend, frontend, apps, data and infrastructure, and we’re continuously evolving. We tackle complex engineering challenges such as real-time scalability, database migrations with no downtime, and peak transaction loads, all while maintaining an exceptional and safe customer experience.
Turning skills into thrills
- Technical Expertise
- Strategic Thinking and Innovative
- Adaptive Problem-Solving & Experimentation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Agility & Adaptability
- Curiosity & Continuous Learning
Turning skills into thrills
Culture points
We take pride in what we do and strive for excellence. We embrace challenges, take initiative, and push boundaries to achieve the best results. With a strong performance-driven mindset, we focus on creating value and continuously aim higher.
We take ownership of our goals and understand our role in delivering results. We seek feedback, take responsibility from start to finish, and hold ourselves to high standards. With a mindset of continuous improvement, we challenge ourselves to grow and do better every day.
We are one team, united by a shared purpose. We work together, support each other, and put the Group’s success first. We embrace diversity, stay open-minded, and face challenges with courage and care. By trusting and lifting one another, we create an environment where we can all thrive.
Data Engineer
At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.
FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.
We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.
Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?
Focusing on our Sportsbook product, we’re looking for a Data Engineer to help build and evolve our next-generation data platform, powering trusted, scalable, and near real-time data assets across multiple brands and markets.You’ll work on our Sportsbook Data Platform — a modern, event-driven lakehouse built on AWS and aligned to medallion architecture principles — contributing to the development of high-quality, well-governed data assets that support analytics, trading insight, and machine learning use cases. This platform underpins critical decision-making across trading, risk, personalisation, and analytics, and plays a key role in scaling and standardising our data ecosystem.
What You’ll Do
Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines, supporting ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.
Develop and enhance data assets aligned to medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold), ensuring quality and usability.
Transform sportsbook domain data (bets, offers, rewards, digital data) into well-structured datasets for downstream consumption.
Implement data transformation logic using modern tooling (e.g. dbt, Spark, SQL-based frameworks) with a focus on clarity and reliability.
Contribute to streaming data pipelines (Kafka/Flink or equivalent) to support near real-time data use cases.
Apply data quality checks and validation to ensure accuracy and consistency of data assets.
Support the implementation of data contracts and schemas for reliable integration between systems.
Monitor and troubleshoot pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency on AWS.
Collaborate with analytics, data science, and machine learning teams to deliver data solutions aligned to business needs.
Contribute to data governance practices, including documentation, metadata, and dataset discoverability.
What You’ll Work On
A modern sportsbook data platform built on AWS, supporting both real-time and batch data processing.
Medallion-aligned data layers transforming raw data into curated, business-ready datasets.
Data pipelines processing sportsbook events such as bets, pricing, and settlements.
Data assets supporting trading analytics, risk monitoring, and customer personalisation.
Integration with BI tools, semantic layers, and machine learning platforms.
Data governance and metadata tooling to improve transparency and trust in data.
Your Experience
2–4 years experience in data engineering or a related field.
Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of data modelling principles.
Experience with data transformation tools (e.g. dbt, Spark) and workflow orchestration (e.g. Airflow or similar).
Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms, ideally AWS.
Understanding of data pipeline design and ETL/ELT patterns.
Exposure to streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, or similar) is beneficial.
Awareness of data quality, testing, and monitoring practices.
Ability to work with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver data solutions.
Willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Nice to Have
Exposure to sports betting, trading, or financial data domains.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures.
Experience with semantic layers or BI tooling.
Exposure to data governance or metadata tooling.
Interest in supporting machine learning or analytics workflows.
Why This Role Matters
This role contributes to building the trusted data foundation that powers analytics, trading insight, and machine learning across sportsbook. By delivering reliable and well-structured data assets, you’ll help enable better decision-making and support the continued evolution of our scalable, modern data platform.
We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.
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A European gaming champion
FDJ UNITED is a European leader in betting and gaming, trusted for its iconic brands and technological strength across around 15 regulated markets. We’re rapidly digitising our lottery business and expanding our sports-betting footprint, creating exciting opportunities to build the next generation of player experiences. Here you’ll work on high-impact projects: modernising platforms, scaling data-driven personalisation, and developing tools that both delight customers and protect them. Our goal is to strengthen customer relationships through smarter identification and insights. That means meaningful, purpose-driven work, from customer service to marketing, product design, compliance and more. All within an international, innovation-focused environment. We are shaping the future of gaming, join us!
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