Data Engineer

A taster of what you will be involved with: 

• Maintaining and evolving our existing data platform;
• Building processes to ingest data from Kafka, APIs and Databases using AWS MSK Connect.
• Development and Maintenance of real-time data processing applications using frameworks like Spark Structured Streaming and Kafka Streams.
• Applying transformations to data streams;
• Being involved in data modelling following standards e.g. Inmon, Kimball, Data Vault;
• Ensuring data quality by verifying data consistency and accuracy;
• Keeping up to date on research and development of new technologies and techniques to enhance our data platform;
• Have an investigative mindset to be able to troubleshoot – thinking outside the box when it comes to troubleshooting problems and incident management;
• Full ownership on projects and tasks assigned together with being able to work within a Team;
• Able to document well processes and perform knowledge sharing sessions

What we are looking for:

Must haves: 

• Experience with modern cloud database technologies such as Snowflake;
• Experience with orchestrating data pipelines using Airflow;
• Experience with AWS Glue;
• Experience with Apache Iceberg;
• Experience with SQL, and Data Integration Tools
• Experience with any programming language like Python or Scala;
• Knowledge on AWS Services like S3/Lambda/API Gateways/DMS/RDS;
• Development experience in both Microsoft, and Linux/Cloud environments;
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to have:

• Familiar with Data Warehousing concepts and data modelling techniques such as Inmon, Kimball, Data Vault;
• Familiar with AWS Services such as MSK and EMR;
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Time-series or Analytics Databases such as Elasticsearch;
• Familiar with data streaming using technologies such as Kafka;
• Familiar with software versioning tools like GIT;
• Familiar with infrastructure scripting like Terraform;
• Familiar with Data Monitoring and Visualisation tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, Cloudwatch;
• Scripting – Powershell, Unix Scripting;
• At least 2 years experience in Data Engineering;
• Excellent verbal and writing English communication skills;
• Good learning mindset;
• Able to set priorities and multitask

What we offer

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.