Lead Data Engineer

UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and 243 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world while broadcasting to over 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO) and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC and @UFC on X, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok: @UFC. Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company, home to the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; sports, fashion, events and media company IMG; and premier mixed martial arts organization UFC. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation, sports operations & advisory, event & experiences management, media production & distribution, experiential marketing and brand licensing.

• Work in a dynamic and exciting agile team with a highly skilled team of Data Engineers and from other disciplines to design and develop innovative data-driven solutions
• Comfortable with designing and building data pipelines and have a solid appreciation for how all phases of the data lifecycle from ingestion, to cleansing, transforming and analysing fit together. Take responsibility for delivering projects and provide technical leadership to drive our data products to the next level
• Work collaboratively with your team members to ensure solutions are built using best practices
• Continuously challenge the status quo from a performance and technology standpoint
• Strive for high quality and rapid output through the use of Data Engineering/warehousing best practices and collaborative sessions
• Working knowledge of relational database design fundamentals (e.g. relational/dimensional modelling, indexing, partitioning)
• Building, testing and deployment of optimised data solutions for analytics and reporting (for example datamarts, views, perspectives, cubes).
• Supporting the planning of data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment.

• Experience leading teams of 3-4 people
• Exposure to, and ideally experience with, modern data architectures (e.g. data lake, lake house, data mesh) and accompanying technologies (e.g. Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift)
• Working knowledge of relational database design fundamentals (e.g. relational/dimensional modelling, indexing, partitioning)
• Awareness of data governance and all surrounding legislation
• Interest in security and how to handle PII data
• Building, testing and deployment of optimised data solutions for analytics and reporting (for example datamarts, views, perspectives, cubes).
• Supporting the planning of data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment.
• Pride in creating clear documentation and training material for colleagues to break down silos and ease the onboarding experience of new colleagues/users
• Ability to interpret high-level blueprints and reference architectures into low-level design, and low-level design into code
• Comfort with industry standard version control tooling and associated CI/CD pipelines
• Stay up to date with wider industry direction and evaluate the benefit of new technologies

• Permanent - London, Chiswick Park
• Working hours are: 9am -5pm
• Working days are: Mon-Fri

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world’s diverse voices. Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.