Head of BI and Analytics Platform

GR8 Tech is a global product company that provides innovative, scalable platforms and business solutions for the iGaming industry.

We have а great experience: GR8 Tech platform successfully handles millions of active players and offers best practices to develop and grow in the gambling industry. We are here to provide great gaming tech to satisfy even greater ambition!

We develop complete tech coverage for gambling businesses worldwide, including iGaming platform solutions, consulting, integration, and long-lasting operation services.

We are driven by our ambition to make a great product with great people! Together we move the world of iGaming forward — join!
Our team is building a high load and real-time transaction processing platform with over 780M transactions per day and growing. The project is written from scratch on the latest tech stacks with dynamically scalable microservices/cluster architecture in mind. We are TDD and Agile followers and looking for a strong DevOps with a passion for doing things right.

About your key responsibilities and impact:

Leading and managing a team of platform engineers (30-50 team members, 5-8 sub-teams) and product managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture;
Developing and executing the technical strategy and product roadmap for teams under your management, aligning it with the company's goals and objectives;
Identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement in the platform architecture and infrastructure;
Facilitating effective communication and coordination within the team and across other departments;
Staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on our platform;
Collaborating with Project and Product Managers in planning, prioritizing, and managing the execution of platform projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards;
Collaborating closely with other engineering leads, architecture board, product managers, and stakeholders to understand their requirements and incorporate them into the platform development process;
Monitoring project progress, identifying risks and issues, and proactively implementing solutions to overcome obstacles;
Fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams to ensure effective and efficient delivery of projects;
Providing technical guidance and support to cross-functional teams during the integration of their systems with the platform;
Ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of the platform by implementing best practices and monitoring systems;
Driving initiatives to optimize the platform's performance, availability, and response times;
Establishing and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the platform's reliability and performance, and take necessary actions to meet or exceed targets;
Setting clear performance expectations, providing feedback, and supporting the career development of team leads and other key members within an engineering organization;
Performing regular 1-2-1 sessions with team leads and key members to monitor people's moods and proactively resolve people's issues.

Essential professional experience:

Leadership or managerial experience on Data projects for 5+ years, demonstrating the ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of data engineers;
Familiar and hands-on experience with Data Governance best practices (Data Catalogs, Data Lineage, Data Security and Privacy, etc);
Experience with developing strategies for data products; In-depth knowledge of data engineering technologies and tools, including but not limited to databases (SQL, NoSQL), data warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes (e.g. Airflow), data modeling, data analytics/reporting (e.g. Tableau / PowerBI), and big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark);
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and understanding how to leverage cloud-based services for scalable and cost-effective data solutions;
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and foster collaboration across teams;
Upper intermediate level of English.

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