Senior Director, Data Engineering – Customer Data Solutions

🕒 April 3

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Aristocrat

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1953

🎮 Gaming

Gaming • Entertainment • Technology

Aristocrat is a global entertainment and gaming content creation company that specializes in delivering industry-leading casino games, mobile games, and online real money games. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat operates across multiple segments including regulated land-based gaming, mobile games publishing, and regulated online Real Money Gaming. The company is driven by technology, creativity, and innovation, striving to bring joy to life through gaming while maintaining a strong focus on responsible gameplay and sustainability. Aristocrat serves millions of players worldwide, employing over 8,500 people united by a shared mission and values.

📋 Description

• Define and complete the global data engineering strategy for customer-facing solutions, aligning technical completion with product vision and customer expectations • Partner closely with Product teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and serve as a senior technical liaison with customers and partners • Lead and mentor a distributed team of managers, engineers, and technical leads, encouraging collaboration, accountability, and innovation • Establish and enforce data engineering guidelines, standards, and processes across multiple platforms and technologies • Drive automation, quality, and performance across data pipelines and customer-facing systems • Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of data products supporting customer data feeds, APIs, reports, and dashboards • Coordinate resource planning, workload distribution, and prioritization across multiple concurrent initiatives • Collaborate deeply with Product Management, Project Management, Architecture, Data Governance & Compliance, Analytics, Data Science, and Application Engineering teams • Build a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging experimentation and adoption of modern engineering practices • Ensure all engineering deliverables align with enterprise data governance, compliance, security, and privacy requirements • Act as a visible leader who can distill complex engineering topics for non-technical collaborators and influence decisions through clarity and empathy.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field • 12+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics delivery, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles • Proven track record of building and leading customer-facing data products or analytics platforms • Deep expertise in Snowflake and modern cloud platforms, especially Azure (experience with AWS or GCP a plus) • Strong technical proficiency with the modern data engineering stack, including tools such as dbt, Coalesce, Airflow, Fivetran, and Python • Familiarity with DataOps practices, including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code principles • Demonstrated success managing distributed teams across multiple geographies • Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills; able to work cross-functionally with executives, product leaders, and customers • Experience driving delivery excellence within Agile and DataOps environments, emphasizing automation and quality • Industry experience in gaming, digital entertainment, iGaming, or iLottery strongly preferred • A strategic yet hands-on leader who thrives in ambiguity, cuts through complexity, and drives clarity and execution.

🏖️ Benefits

• Robust benefits package • Global career opportunities