Staff Analytics Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT). THE POSITION Our roster has an opening with your name on it As a Staff Analytics Engineer for our Sports Modeling & Innovation team, you will be a senior technical leader on a global data initiative focused on expanding and improving the auxiliary data that can be joined to our customer bet data. You will set the technical direction for how we source, ingest, model, and serve new data assets, and you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the data models, pipelines, and architecture that power business performance impacting decisions for data scientists, analysts, and traders. The first year of this work will be scrappy and hands-on, spanning real-time data ingestion, building scrapers, and standing up a medallion architecture from the ground up. We will start with NBA and NFL, which have relatively solid data foundations, before pivoting to an international soccer model that will require a significantly heavier lift. Beyond the build, you will be expected to raise the bar for the broader team, mentoring other analytics engineers and driving improvements to our engineering best practices, standards, and ways of working. This is a great opportunity for a seasoned engineer who thrives in an environment where curiosity is rewarded and people are empowered to make decisions. The ideal candidate will have a passion for learning, a bias toward action, and a desire to shape how we leverage our data at scale. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs. THE GAME PLAN Everyone on our team has a part to play • Architecting and building pipelines for fast (often real-time) ingestion of auxiliary data into well-designed data stores (SQL, Delta Lake, medallion architecture), including standing up new sources from scratch • Building and maintaining scrapers and validation pipelines that source new external data, flag bad or missing data, and evolve as new datasets and sports come online • Own the design and delivery of the medallion architecture and data transformation jobs for the global data project, setting standards for the codebase and troubleshooting complex issues across the stack • Establish scalable approaches to database management and automated data cleaning across large, messy, and heterogeneous datasets • Make decisions between memory and speed tradeoffs to best optimize team’s project needs - help reduce query execution times where possible and remove unnecessary/unused metrics • Partner with stakeholders to priorit