Senior Lead Data Engineer
DraftKings

Love data? We do too.

DraftKings is growing quickly and we're looking for a Senior Lead Data Engineer to help establish and lead a data team centered around providing data solutions to support our customer acquisition marketing efforts. This senior lead engineering position requires strong development, problem solving, and technical analysis skills, with a serious bias for collaboration.

What you'll do as a Senior Lead Data Engineer:

• Take ownership of building data solutions to provide actionable insights into key business metrics.
• Lead the marketing acquisition data engineering squad to design scalable processes.
• Drive implementation of high quality, production-grade data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Partner and collaborate with product owners, product managers and the Growth Marketing Analysts team on strategy and technical direction.
• Have the ability to rapidly adapt and be flexible. We roll out products very quickly and are looking for a team that can pivot at a moment's notice.

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in aspects of business intelligence and data engineering, including data warehousing, delivery, and operations is required.
• Experienced technical leader. Multiple years proven experience leading a data engineering team.
• The ability to build and optimize data pipelines, transformations, architectures, and data sets is required.
• Strong knowledge in a variety of data engines like SQL Server, MySQL and/or Redshift is required.
• Experience with data tools such as Datadog, Alation, Tableau and/or other reporting tools is preferred.