Senior Data Engineer

Hard Rock Digital

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically. Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us? We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our quickly growing product and technology teams. This position will report into our reporting team which will build data automation applications to ensure accurate and timely reports. Beyond reporting, this position has potential to grow to touch all aspects of the real money gaming operation, from customer service to data science applications. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will: Be a strong technical person on our team who helps drive innovation Be responsible for producing and maintaining critical data deliverables / pipelines Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work. We are looking for individuals passionate about data in general, data technologies, and the use of these technologies to automate business processes. We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. We believe the perfect candidate isn’t interested in just what we’re building right now, but wants to understand where we’re going and how it impacts the downstream consumer or customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: to optimize all aspects of online gaming and providing the best overall customer experience.

Requirements

Degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience (5+ years)
Strong communication and collaboration skills (both written and verbal)
Proven track record at using technology to automate data processes
Strong SQL skills, including Jinja templating / DBT
Experience with Snowflake and Airflow (Astronomer)
Experience with Java
Experience with Python including exposure to data science packages (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn)
Experience manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets (Spark)
An understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable applications

Nice To Haves

Exposure to and interest in the following technologies:
AWS Serverless and serverless-supported languages
SQL and/or NoSQL experience (ex, MySql, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Snowflake)
Streaming technologies (Amazon Kinesis, Kafka)
Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
Comfort working within an agile development cycle and exposure to:
Linux development
Git and versioning software
Build systems (Maven, SBT, Gradle, etc) and common build patterns
Experience automating data flows and reporting in a regulated environment a plus

Responsibilities

Be a strong technical person on our team who helps drive innovation
Be responsible for producing and maintaining critical data deliverables / pipelines
Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code
Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables