Entain is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming companies, listed on the London Stock Exchange with a $4 billion valuation and a global team of over 24,000 employees. We own and operate some of the biggest betting brands in the world, including bwin, Ladbrokes, Coral, and PartyCasino, serving millions of customers across multiple markets. As an industry leader, we are at the forefront of innovation, data-driven marketing, and cutting-edge technology, constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of online betting and gaming.

The Performance Marketing Analytics team is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data platform Engineer to establish, operate, and maintain our dedicated Performance Marketing Data Mart within the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform. This is a critical, high-autonomy role responsible for the end-to-end data lifecycle, ensuring data quality, operational excellence, and governance within the new environment. This role will directly enable the Performance Marketing team's vision for data-driven marketing and increased ownership of our analytical infrastructure

Responsibilities-

Snowflake Environment Management

• Administer the Snowflake account (roles, permissions, cost monitoring, performance tuning).
• Implement best practices for security, PII handling, and data governance.
• Act as the subject matter expert for Snowflake within the team.

DevOps & Model Engineering

• Establish and manage the development and production environments.
• Maintain CI/CD pipeline using GitLab to automate the build, test, and deployment process.
• Implement normal engineering practices such as code testing and commit reviews to prevent tech debt.

Data Operations & Reliability

• Monitor pipeline executions to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable data.
• Set up alerting, incident management, and SLAs for marketing data operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform incidents quickly to minimize business disruption.

Tooling & Integration

• Support the integration of BI, monitoring, and orchestration tools
• Evaluate and implement observability and logging solutions for platform reliability.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure alignment with Entain data governance and compliance policies.
• Document operational procedures, platform configurations, and security controls.
• Act as the team liaison with procurement, infrastructure, and security teams for platform-related topics.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely with BI, analysts and data engineers, ensuring the platform supports their evolving needs.
• Provide guidance on best practices for query optimization, cost efficiency, and secure data access.

Qualifications-

• Expert Proficiency in Snowflake: Deep, hands-on experience with Snowflake setup, administration, security, warehouse management, performance tuning and cost management.
• Programming: Expertise in SQL, and proficiency in Python for data transformation and operational scripting
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitLab) for data/analytics workloads
• Hands-on experience with modern data environments (cloud warehouses, dbt, orchestration tools)
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field