Data Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.  

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Our competitive edge is enabled by the ability to leverage accurate and timely data for informed decision-making. We are seeking a Data Engineer to advance FanDuel’s data capabilities and contribute to the further growth and maturity of our Data Team.  

As a Data Engineer, you will be a valued member of the Data Support team, maintaining exceptional standards and servicing all the needs of data consumers across the company. Your role will be to ensure the health of our data infrastructure, contribute to the delivery of reliable, timely, and consumable data for all company data consumers. The success of this team will elevate the capabilities of our Data tribe to maximise the value of our data assets and empower employees to innovate.

You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment where you will team up with colleagues having experience in data warehousing, machine learning and more. 

The successful candidate should have minimum 3-5 years of data engineering experience with good technical and problem-solving skills, a positive and results driven attitude, and a good communicator who can interact with both technical and non-technical people.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide on-call technical assistance to analysts, data consumers, and data engineering teams, responding to inquiries relating to query optimization, reporting anomalies, complex data pipeline issues, failed jobs, and data inconsistencies.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues in response to system alerts or notifications from stakeholders, ensuring compliance with internal/external audits and control practices.
• Design and implement batch and real-time data pipelines to the data warehouse or data lake using data transformation technologies, enhancing monitoring dashboards and support tools, and automating repetitive support tasks.
• Lead impactful initiatives to enhance data pipelines and other data operations capabilities while mentoring and onboarding new support data engineers.
• Create and maintain technical support documentation, including FAQs, troubleshooting steps, support runbooks, and a knowledge base of solutions to recurring issues.
• Drive operational best practices and shape workflows for routine consumer support, operations monitoring, incident management, and problem management.
• Administer account access to tools across the technology stack in accordance with SoX governance policies.
  
  
  

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

Preferred skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to get to the root causes of issues and implement effective solutions.
• A customer-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality support services and attention to detail.
• Minimum 3-5 years of SQL query and query performance tuning experience.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or R.
• Experience with dimensional data modeling, batch data ingestion, and real-time technologies like Kafka or Kinesis.
• Understanding of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processing.
• Experience with cloud databases such as AWS Redshift or Databricks, and Spark on Databricks, AWS, or Azure.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exposure to orchestration and monitoring tools like Airflow, Datadog, Databand, and Monte Carlo.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker.
• Experience owning and coordinating issues across multiple time zones, bringing continuity of coverage to the Data tribe.

Desired skills:

• Experience with data streaming patterns and ETL/ELT tools like Dbt.
• Exposure to database design, performance analysis, and data quality metrics.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools like BuildKite or Github Actions.
• Exposure to Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI.
  
  
  

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $116,000 - $145,000 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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