Aristocrat
Senior Director, Data Engineering - Customer Data Solutions
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Senior Director, Data Engineering - Customer Data Solutions
Senior Director, Data Engineering
Location: Global Remote (including UK-based team net of hours) Business Unit: Global Responsible Gaming & Product Data & Technology Reference: SAR0069525
Aristocrat is seeking an accomplished and innovative Senior Director, Data Engineering to lead the development, delivery, and ongoing improvement of our solutions that power customer-facing analytics, reports, and data feeds. This role bridges technology, product, and customer success. You will drive engineering excellence for a complex and visible data platform supporting our global gaming digital businesses.
As a key leader, you will guide a geographically distributed engineering team, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant data solutions that empower our customers. Join us to be part of an ambitious team that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and flawless execution!
What You’ll Do
- Define and deliver the global data engineering strategy for customer-facing solutions, aligning technical execution 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, fostering 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
- Dashboards
- Coordinate resource planning, workload distribution, and prioritisation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Collaborate deeply with:
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Architecture
- Data Governance & Compliance
- Analytics
- Data Science
- Application Engineering teams
- Build a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging:
- Experimentation
- Adoption of modern engineering practices
- Ensure all engineering deliverables comply with:
- Enterprise data governance
- Compliance
- Security
- Privacy requirements
- Act as a visible leader who can:
- Distill complex engineering topics for non-technical stakeholders
- Influence decisions through clarity and empathy
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What We’re Looking For
Essential Qualifications
- 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, particularly Azure (experience with AWS or GCP a plus).
- Strong technical proficiency with the modern data engineering stack, including:
- dbt
- Coalesce
- Airflow
- Fivetran
- Python
- Familiarity with DataOps practices, including:
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure-as-code principles
- Demonstrated success managing distributed teams across multiple geographies.
- Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills; ability to work effectively with:
- Executives
- Product leaders
- Customers
- Experience driving delivery excellence within Agile and DataOps environments, emphasising:
- Automation
- Quality
- Industry experience in:
- Gaming
- Digital entertainment
- iGaming
- iLottery (strongly preferred).
- A strategic yet hands-on leader who:
- Thrives in ambiguity
- Cuts through complexity
- Drives clarity and execution
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Why Aristocrat?
Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of millions who love playing our casino and mobile games. While our focus is on fun, we never overlook responsibility—we aim to lead the charge in responsible gameplay, governance, employee wellbeing, and sustainability.
Aristocrat fosters a diverse and inclusive environment where employees can thrive:
- Individual differences are valued.
- Everyone has the chance to realise their potential.
We welcome applications from all people, regardless of:
- Age
- Gender
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Cultural background
- Disability status
- LGBTQ+ identity
We proudly adhere to EEO policies (Equal Employment Opportunity: Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran).
Benefits & Opportunities
- World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
Our Values
- All about the Player
- Talent Unleashed
- Collective Brilliance
- Good Business Good Citizen
Additional Notes
- Travel expectations: Up to 25%.
- Work authorisation: At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this role. Candidates must be authorised to work in the job posting location on a full-time basis without visa sponsorship.
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