Data Engineer at kitmanlabs – Greater Manchester | Jobyssey

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential of the world's top athletes.

Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry's top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers.

Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.

Data Engineer

We're looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our team and help build and evolve our data platform. You'll work across analytics engineering, data pipelines, and data quality — collaborating closely with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product to turn raw data into reliable, scalable foundations.

What You'll Work On

Analytics Engineering & Reporting

Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
Contribute to Looker dashboards and LookML models, working alongside senior engineers and analysts
Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
Implement data quality checks using Dataform assertions and automated alerting
Support data observability across the warehouse — monitoring pipeline health, data freshness, and anomaly detection

Data Pipelines & Ingestion

Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration
Work with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow) to schedule and monitor workflows
Develop familiarity with CDC concepts and event-driven ingestion patterns (Datastream, Pub/Sub)
Containerise workloads with Docker for deployment on Cloud Run or similar GCP services

Data Science Collaboration

Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline
Contribute to feature pipelines and data preparation for ML workloads
Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, maintainable code

What We're Looking For

SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery
Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform; understanding of modular, version-controlled data transformation
Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code; comfortable with Git and CI/CD workflows
GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential; broader GCP exposure (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream) is a strong advantage
Orchestration experience — hands-on with Cloud Composer, Airflow, or a comparable tool
Data modelling fundamentals — dimensional modelling, Kimball principles, or medallion architecture patterns
Docker basics — able to containerise and deploy data workloads
Collaborative and communicative — able to translate business requirements into data models and work effectively with Analytics, Product, and Data Science stakeholders
Pragmatic approach to AI tooling — comfortable using AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality

Nice to have

Looker / LookML experience
Familiarity with CDC concepts and tools (Datastream, Debezium)
Exposure to ML frameworks or MLOps tooling (scikit-learn, MLflow, Vertex AI)
AWS experience as a complement (Redshift, Glue, RDS) — we value engineers who can draw on cross-cloud perspective
Curiosity about sports performance data

Why this role?

You'll work on a modern GCP-native stack — BigQuery, Dataform, Looker, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run — with room to grow into platform ownership, CDC pipelines, and MLOps as your experience develops. We care about clean code, good data, and pragmatic engineering over perfection.

Benefits

At Kitman Labs we pride ourselves on being the best and working with the best, so it should be no surprise that we are also dedicated to keeping the best through building a world-class work culture.

We truly believe that a successful company begins through having an outstanding and inspiring culture, so our benefits reflect this:

- Competitive salary

- Health insurance for employee & dependants

- Meaningful equity

- Pension Plan

- Life Cover

- Income protection

- Wellbeing benefits

Location

While this role allows for remote work, occasional face-to-face-gatherings are recommended.

Diversity

In addition to building a team with diverse skill-sets, Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, civil or family status, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please let us know.

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