Football Data Engineer
We’re helping a leading football club grow their data team. Working directly for the club you will work alongside data science and performance experts and take ownership of all football data pipelines.
Turning complex football data into reliable, analysis-ready assets for the team powering decisions across the club. Mainly focussing on the First Team but also having exposure with Reserve, Academy and Youth Teams.
Power the game with data. From numbers to goals, driving decisions to create winning results!
Essential Skills (Across the pitch):
* Python programming skills.
* Experience designing, building and maintaining cloud based data pipelines (ETL) for structured and unstructured data from APIs (both internal and external).
* Familiarity with databases, data warehouses and cloud platforms (SQL, Snowflake, AWS).
* An understanding of data quality, testing, monitoring and documentation best practices.
* Exposure with football data (either professionally or through personal projects).
* A genuine passion for football (soccer) and a curiosity-driven mindset for how data flows through the modern game.
Day-to-Day Duties (In the stadium):
* Build, maintain and optimise scalable data pipelines ingesting football data from multiple internal and external sources.
* Clean, transform and structure raw football data into impactful, value driven insight.
* Ensure data reliability, accuracy and availability across performance, recruitment and analytics teams.
* Work closely with data scientists, analysts and football stakeholders to support insight generation.
* Contribute to internal platform improvements, tooling and architectural decisions.
* Support research and innovation projects by enabling access to new datasets, metrics and data products.
Benefits (Beyond the game):
* An impact from day one.
* Direct involvement with football and the chance to apply data engineering to the real-world football calendar.
* Creative freedom to experiment and innovate.
* Supportive, collaborative culture that encourages learning and growth.
* A vibrant team culture with a shared passion for the sport.
* Access to the latest tools and technologies.
* Competitive salary, plus an endless list of benefits.