Lead Data Engineer

Job Description

Who We Are:

Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world's most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events, and experiences. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation through entertainment agency WME; sports operations and advisory, event management, media production and distribution, and brand licensing through IMG; live event experiences and hospitality through On Location; full-service marketing through global cultural marketing agency 160over90; and sports data and technology through IMG ARENA and OpenBet. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE.

Who are we:

Endeavor is a global leader in sports, entertainment and fashion. Endeavor is comprised of a number of industry-leading companies including WME, IMG and UFC. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation and management; brand marketing, sponsorship and licensing; media sales and distribution; event operation and management; and sports training and league development.

Endeavor Analytics provides in-depth intelligence to clients globally through data services, valuation, experiential, and analytics in various industries including entertainment, sports, fashion, culinary, and the arts.

What You'll Do:

The Lead Data Engineer role sits within the Data Services department, you will work actively to unlock the value of data by building and enabling product teams and data practitioners to use the data platform and warehouse. You are curious and passionate about building value-creating and innovative solutions for the company and colleagues. You will have the chance to work with product managers and data scientists on building the best technical solutions. You will have the opportunity to rotate on the products you develop, pair programs and contribute to technical showcases.
• Work in a dynamic and exciting agile team with a highly skilled team of Data Engineers from other disciplines to design and develop innovative data-driven solutions
• Comfortable with designing and building data pipelines and have a solid appreciation for how all phases of the data lifecycle from ingestion, to cleansing, transforming and analysing fit together
• Design and implement data models to support the data product and ensure scalability/performance
• Take responsibility for delivering projects and provide technical leadership to drive our data products to the next level
• Oversee the deployment of data products, coordinating with all parties involved to ensure a smooth process with minimal disruption
• Ensure the accuracy and reliability of data across the data pipeline
• Advising on product upgrades and Improvements
• Responsible for coordinating the software development process
• Work with the team to ensure that features are estimated correctly
• Ensure the team's success in delivery, primarily by helping to identify and especially remove impediments impacting the team's ability to deliver
• Building, testing and deployment of optimised data solutions for analytics and reporting (for example DataMart's, views, perspectives, cubes).
• Supporting the planning of data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment.

You Have These:
• Exposure to, and ideally experience with, modern data architectures (e.g. data lake, lake house, data mesh) and accompanying technologies (e.g. Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift)
• Awareness of data governance and all surrounding legislation
• Interest in security and how to handle PII data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to identify software bugs and work with the team to develop solutions
• Supporting the planning of data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment.
• Pride in creating clear documentation and training material for colleagues to break down silos and ease the onboarding experience of new colleagues/users
• Ability to interpret high-level blueprints and reference architectures into low-level design, and low-level design into code
• Stay up to date with wider industry direction and evaluate the benefit of new technologies
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to maintain delivery momentum
• Proven ability to lead and manage sprints, demonstrating a strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Demonstrated experience in planning, execution and leading sprints, ensuring timely delivery of software projects

Working Conditions:
• Permanent - London, Chiswick Park
• Working hours are: 9am -5pm
• Working days are: Mon-Fri

Endeavor is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world's diverse voices.  

Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzv6w7-3-134-118-95-42 in your application.