Azure Data Engineer

About The Stars Group

The Stars Group is a global leader in the online and mobile gaming and interactive entertainment industries, entertaining millions of customers across its online real- and play-money poker, gaming and betting product offerings. The Stars Group offers these products directly or indirectly under several ultimately owned or licensed gaming and related consumer businesses and brands, including, among others, PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, BetStars, Full Tilt, BetEasy, Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo, Sky Poker, and Oddschecker, as well as live poker tour and events brands, including the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship, European Poker Tour, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour, PokerStars Festival and PokerStars MEGASTACK.

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Position

We are looking for an Azure Data Engineer to join our busy and dynamic team based in our Bulgaria service office.

We’re looking for an Azure Data Engineer to contribute to the Stars Group growing data and analytical needs. Be part of the team that looks to build out our next-generation hybrid data platform, demonstrating new technologies and techniques to maximize the value out of our data assets and empower employees to innovate.

The Azure Data Engineer is responsible for the successful delivery of business intelligence solutions to the entire organization and is experienced in BI development and implementations, data architecture and data warehousing.

• You`ll be choosing the right technology and proper data design and implementation in various projects and solutions
• You`ll demonstrate hands-on skills in processing large data sets, expertise in data structure, data access patterns, Big Data concepts, cloud computing and optimization techniques
• You`ll build robust end-to-end systems with long term maintenance and support of the application in mind
• You`ll use reusable code modules to tackle problems across the team and organization
• The Framework you`ll build will be of significant complexity and an internal team of data engineers (both full-time associates and/or third party resources) will be there to help you achieve this

Your qualification

• You have a minimum of 5 years coding, or at least 5 years’ experience in data warehousing or at least 5 years in unstructured data environments
• Your experience in Azure Cloud technologies should be at least 2 years
• Your experience also includes building data products incrementally and integrating and managing data sets from multiple sources
• You have experience with a DW technology (SQL Server) and relevant data modellingand processing large amounts of data, in various formats and processing data in batch mode and streaming mode
• You are proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g. SQL, Python)
• You have hands-on experience with automation and deployment (Azure DevOps) 
• On this position, will be required you to easily communicate with both technical and non-technical team members
• Experience in e-gaming and certification for MS SQL Server are desirable

What we offer

The salary for this job is based on experience, so whilst we are not able to go into detail at this stage, we can say that we offer great salary packages and also like to throw in a discretionary annual performance bonus. In addition, we provide advice and financial relocation assistance to those moving to Bulgaria.

We offer health and dental insurance for you, your partner and your children (if you all live at the same address). In addition, you are entitled to a personal allowance interest which encourages our employees to upskill themselves or pursuit a hobby. A baby bounty is offered to our employees as well, granting 1000 BGN upon the birth of a child.

Our in-house training and development team deliver fantastic support in terms of developing your skills and helping you progress your career. In the office there is always free fresh fruit, snacks and drinks. In addition, we contribute a certain amount to the transportation and lunch expenses of our employees.

Our employees can always enrol to our sports program, and in terms of relaxation we have a playroom, including a PlayStation and a pool table. Our social team organise great events; including our sensational summer and Christmas parties.