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Data Engineer
Leicester City Football Club
Leicester City are a Premier League football club with a strong history and an exciting future.
Job Posted- 26 Nov 2024
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 19 Dec 2024
About The Role
Leicester City Football Club are excited to be recruiting for a skilled and enthusiastic Data Engineer to join the Club’s Performance Analysis department. This role will play an integral part in the development of the department’s data pipelines and maintenance of existing databases. This role will also be responsible for building a high-quality codebase to serve the data analysis and data science functions, directly supporting the success of the Club’s First Team.
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate will be professionally qualified to degree level in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science etc. and will have significant experience of working in back-end software design and development. It will also be essential for the successful candidate to be proficient in the use of Python and SQL, demonstrating strong coding skills in order to develop, test and maintain data pipelines for the department.
Additional duties of the role include;
Essential:
- Strong understanding of relational database systems and experience in designing efficient data models and schemas.
- Experience building and maintaining robust ETL pipelines, with the ability to handle structured and unstructured data sources.
- Strong experience in designing both relational and denormalised database models, optimising for efficient querying, scalability, and performance across different use cases.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing data solutions on cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.
- Skilled in task orchestration and workflow automation tools such as Apache Airflow or similar.
- Experience of using version control tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
- Capable of translating technical data logic and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable:
- Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science, or a STEM related subject.
- Experience with big data tools such as Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Spark, Hadoop or similar.
- Experience with deploying serverless and containerisation code in the cloud.
- Passion for football and an appreciation for the fast-moving nature of an elite sport environment (prior experience of working in sports is not necessary).
- Experience with football datasets such as Statsbomb, Skillcorner, Second Spectrum, Opta etc.
About The Club
Knowing some of the history of Leicester City Football Club helps you appreciate the sense of community, spirit and family for which the Foxes are renowned for.
Formed in 1884, the Club was promoted to the Premier League in 2014 when the Foxes returned to the top tier as the Championship title-winners. In 2016, Leicester City became Premier League champions. This remarkable achievement qualified us for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the Club’s history, and we subsequently reached the quarterfinals. The Club continued to build on that success and celebrated lifting the prestigious FA Cup in May 2021. Following relegation from the Premier League in 2023, the Club made it the top priority to get straight back up and did so as Championship title-winners in the 2023-2024 season.
Under the stewardship of King Power and the Club’s CEO Susan Whelan, Leicester City Football Club is deeply committed to the local community and its supporters and continually strives to ensure that every point of engagement with fans is truly world class including the experience on matchdays. Investment in the Club continues, with the 2021 opening of a new state-of-the-art training ground in North Leicestershire.
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