Data Team Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

This is a hands-on, player / coach opportunity to be the inaugural member of our Data team in the United States, based at our regional HQ in Denver. The Data Team Lead will be pivotal in establishing and scaling our data function across the US, with future expansion into Colombia.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical expertise in fast, scalable data solution development and a proven track record building pragmatic, high-performing teams that thrive on getting things done. Excellence in stakeholder management and cross-border collaboration, particularly with our UK center of technical excellence, is essential.

The listed salary for this position is $130,000-$155,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an agile, startup-like environment, balancing the need for speed with uncompromising quality and compliance.
• Demonstrated success in setting up and scaling high-performing data teams from scratch.
• Strong advocate for self-service and enablement, with experience providing business teams with the necessary data tools and information to become more agile and data driven.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills; able to translate business requirements into technical delivery and communicate effectively across levels.
• Deep understanding of data security, compliance, and privacy requirements.
• A passion for coaching and mentoring, developing talent, and fostering a pragmatic, delivery-focused culture.
• Technical expertise in Google Big Query, such as data lake and data warehouse, SQL for complex transformations, and Kafka for scalable data ingestion pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with one or more advanced visualization tools, PowerBI and Looker preferred.
• Strong programming skills and comfort with modern data engineering workflows in cloud environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional Information

bet365 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.