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Data Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery
  • Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform
  • Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code
  • GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns
  • Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
  • Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration
  • Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline

Key facts

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Curiosity

About the company

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Kitman Labs

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Kitman Labs is the world's leading sports science and performance intelligence company with an established track record of working with top governing bodies, leagues, teams and athletes in some of the world's most elite sports organisations and universities including the NFL, NBA, Premier League, MLS and NCAA. Kitman Labs powers iP: The Intelligence Platform (iP), the advanced operating system designed to optimise human performance; enhance overall health, wellness and longevity; reduce injury risk; and drive operational efficiencies and value. iP includes software solutions for Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization, Coaching & Development and League Operations. iP represents the industry’s largest network of elite and youth teams (2000+) and the industry’s largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle. Kitman Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Dublin and Manchester.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryData Analytics & Business Intelligence
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential of the world's top athletes.

Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry's top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers.

Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.


Data Engineer

We're looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our team and help build and evolve our data platform. You'll work across analytics engineering, data pipelines, and data quality — collaborating closely with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product to turn raw data into reliable, scalable foundations.


What You'll Work On

Analytics Engineering & Reporting

  • Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)

  • Contribute to Looker dashboards and LookML models, working alongside senior engineers and analysts

  • Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery

  • Implement data quality checks using Dataform assertions and automated alerting

  • Support data observability across the warehouse — monitoring pipeline health, data freshness, and anomaly detection

  • Data Pipelines & Ingestion

    • Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration

    • Work with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow) to schedule and monitor workflows

    • Develop familiarity with CDC concepts and event-driven ingestion patterns (Datastream, Pub/Sub)

    • Containerise workloads with Docker for deployment on Cloud Run or similar GCP services

    • Data Science Collaboration

      • Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline

      • Contribute to feature pipelines and data preparation for ML workloads

      • Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, maintainable code


What We're Looking For
  • SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery

  • Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform; understanding of modular, version-controlled data transformation

  • Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code; comfortable with Git and CI/CD workflows

  • GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential; broader GCP exposure (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream) is a strong advantage

  • Orchestration experience — hands-on with Cloud Composer, Airflow, or a comparable tool

  • Data modelling fundamentals — dimensional modelling, Kimball principles, or medallion architecture patterns

  • Docker basics — able to containerise and deploy data workloads

  • Collaborative and communicative — able to translate business requirements into data models and work effectively with Analytics, Product, and Data Science stakeholders

  • Pragmatic approach to AI tooling — comfortable using AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality


Nice to have
  • Looker / LookML experience

  • Familiarity with CDC concepts and tools (Datastream, Debezium)

  • Exposure to ML frameworks or MLOps tooling (scikit-learn, MLflow, Vertex AI)

  • AWS experience as a complement (Redshift, Glue, RDS) — we value engineers who can draw on cross-cloud perspective

  • Curiosity about sports performance data

Why this role?

You'll work on a modern GCP-native stack — BigQuery, Dataform, Looker, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run — with room to grow into platform ownership, CDC pipelines, and MLOps as your experience develops. We care about clean code, good data, and pragmatic engineering over perfection.

Benefits
 
At Kitman Labs we pride ourselves on being the best and working with the best, so it should be no surprise that we are also dedicated to keeping the best through building a world-class work culture.
We truly believe that a successful company begins through having an outstanding and inspiring culture, so our benefits reflect this:
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance for employee & dependants
- Meaningful equity
- Pension Plan
- Life Cover
- Income protection
- Wellbeing benefits
 
Location
 
While this role allows for remote work, occasional face-to-face-gatherings are recommended.
 
Diversity
 
In addition to building a team with diverse skill-sets, Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, civil or family status, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please let us know.
 
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