Technical Lead, Google Cloud Platform in Stoke-on-Trent

bet365 is 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 more than 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 growth opportunities, giving them the chance to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward‑thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

As a Technical Lead, you will play a key role in architecting and implementing robust data solutions within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Working within the Data Engineering department, you will help shape the technical direction of cloud‑based solutions. Your focus will be defining the overall architecture for data ingestion from our Data Lake, including processing, storage, and analysis within GCP. Leveraging your expertise in Google BigQuery architecture and its features, you will design and implement data models optimised for performance, scalability, and best practices. You will act as the subject‑matter expert for development and optimisation to maintain data governance, while ensuring all solutions adhere to company standards, security best practices, and regulatory requirements. This role is eligible for inclusion in the company’s hybrid working‑from‑home policy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a GCP expert, focusing on data‑driven solutions.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with Google BigQuery, including its architecture, features, and best practices.
• Detailed understanding of data modelling, data transformation, data governance, and proficiency in SQL and other data processing languages.
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools, preferably Cloud Composer.
• Broad understanding of core GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and IAM.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to manage GCP environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems such as Git, GitLab, and Jenkins.
• Proven experience in setting up and managing GCP environments.
• Proficient in writing complex SQL queries, continuous queries, stored procedures, UDFs, and TVFs in BigQuery, along with performance tuning and optimisation.
• Strong understanding of GCP security best practices and BigQuery's specific security features and access control mechanisms.

Additional Information

• Collaborating with technical leads and software architects to ensure scalable, reliable, and compliant solutions.
• Craft complex SQL queries, stored procedures, UDFs, and TVFs, applying performance tuning strategies for data models.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated data pipelines for efficient data ingestion, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) processes.
• Implement and champion data validation, sequencing, robust monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure seamless integration of applications with the GCP data platform.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert on GCP data solutions and BigQuery, providing guidance, mentorship, and knowledge transfer on best practices to the development team.
• Actively participate in code reviews and contribute to the technical direction of cloud‑based data processing solutions.

At bet365, we are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. We believe in diversity and inclusion and encourage all individuals to apply. If you require any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.