Football Data Engineer in Manchester

At Manchester United, we believe that excellence on the pitch starts with excellence off the pitch. Our team thrives in a high-performance environment, united by a shared passion for success. We aim to elevate the standard of performance through collaboration and continuous growth, creating a space where everyone can contribute their best to our common goals. We work together at our iconic Manchester United offices, enabling connection and innovation as we look ahead to what we can achieve as a global football club. We are excited to bring in passionate people who share our vision and drive for success.

The Role

You'll be part of the Data & AI Team, playing a key role in the club’s transformation into a fully data-driven organisation. The team delivers powerful insights, builds trusted data products, and operates modern data platforms that enable better decisions and success on and off the pitch. We’re looking for a Football Data Engineer to play a key part in this transformation. In this role, you’ll help build robust pipelines to deliver data to stakeholders across the club. If you’re passionate about building the infrastructure to enable our football experts to make data-driven decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with analysts, data scientists, and football performance staff to understand their needs and translate them into well-engineered technical solutions.
• Architect and build robust, secure and scalable pipelines to ingest data from a variety of sources, both internal and 3rd party.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable data egress patterns, including APIs that expose curated warehouse data to end users via our central platform, and where appropriate through third party tools, scripts and automated workflows.
• Take part in planning and prioritisation of engineering work with the existing Football Data Engineers and Football Data Programme Manager.
• Own the reliability and quality of critical football data models, ensuring pipelines are monitored, tested, and maintained to the highest standard.
• Define and champion best practices for data engineering across the group.
• Demonstrate a commitment to writing great documentation for processes you build.

The Person

• Proven experience with building and maintaining production data pipelines to serve business critical requirements.
• Strong fundamental Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment processes and Git version control.
• Dimensional modelling abilities; you care deeply about building reliable data models.
• Familiarity with modern cloud-based data stacks e.g. Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Big Query etc.
• A drive for continuous improvement in your work and that of others, proactively identifying issues and opportunities.

Desirable (but not essential)

• Familiarity with Docker.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• An interest in or prior experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).

What We Offer

• Annual incentive scheme.
• Wellness Support with access to mental health resources, digital health checks, and nutritionists through Aviva Digicare+.
• Workplace Exclusive Discounts through our United Rewards platform, giving you access to exclusive deals from the club and partners.
• Gym Facilities in our onsite locations and opportunities for regular social events and team-building activities.
• Enhanced family Leave Benefits and an opportunity to purchase additional holiday days.
• Enhanced Career Development with access to professional learning platforms like LinkedIn Learning, and internal training programs.
• A Supportive Work Environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion, and individual growth.

Our Commitment to You

At Manchester United, we believe that a diverse and inclusive environment makes us stronger. We are committed to building a team where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the core of our recruitment strategy, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.