Lead Data Engineer
Better Collective A/S2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own all paid media data jobs, including freshness, cost, reliability, alerting, and incident response.
- Build and maintain the user-level model joining ad platform spend and delivery, affiliate and operator revenue, and CRM data.
- Own paid media source ingestion, schemas, domain models, marts, and semantic definitions.
- Develop reverse ETL workflows that send online and offline conversion data back to advertising platforms.
- Take over paid media jobs from the central platform team and move ownership to the domain team.
- Guide and mentor a group of data engineers as technical lead, including setting standards, reviewing work, unblocking engineers, and developing team members.
- Shape the domain roadmap with the Senior Head of Paid Media Insights, analysts, and business teams.
- Represent paid media in platform discussions, including support for machine learning and data science.
- Work closely with marketing, analyst, campaign, commercial, CRM, and central platform teams.
Requirements
- Production experience building data pipelines in SQL and Python.
- Experience with data modeling and orchestration tools such as dbt and Dagster.
- Experience with cloud data warehousing and operating systems for performance, cost, and reliability at scale.
- Ability to own a data domain end to end, including operational reliability and incident response.
- Ability to handle complex paid media data involving attribution windows, late conversions, cross-platform identity, and changing source APIs.
- Technical leadership experience mentoring engineers, reviewing work, setting standards, and growing team capability.
- Ability to work effectively with a central data platform team and contribute to shared standards and platform improvements.
- Experience working closely with marketers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Experience with paid media or attribution data, or with machine learning pipelines, is preferred but not required.
- Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift is transferable.
- Experience with agents, tooling, or AI-enabled engineering workflows and an understanding of documented, standardized, semantically clear data domains.
Benefits
- International growth company with a flat organizational structure.
- Freedom with responsibility, room to grow, and broad responsibilities.
- Flexible working hours supporting work-life balance.
- Private health insurance.
- Office perks including lunch, snacks, gym access, and social events.
- Applications are processed on an ongoing basis.
About Better Collective A/S
Better Collective A/S builds and operates a portfolio of digital sports media, betting media, and esports/gaming communities, including Action Network, HLTV, and FUTBIN. It monetizes through advertising, affiliate partnerships with sportsbooks, and select subscriptions, serving fans and bettors seeking odds, analysis, and tools. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Copenhagen, it is dual-listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Copenhagen and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly visits.