About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Team

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team, which builds and governs the data foundation that powers the business. You’ll set technical direction for our stack (Python ingestion pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and Snowflake/Databricks) and make sure data moves reliably, securely, and cost-effectively from source to decision-ready output.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad scope and influence. You’ll own the architecture of our most critical data systems, define the standards the team builds against, and take on novel, ambiguous, high-stakes problems that don’t have a runbook. You’ll be accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and design of ingestion pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and data delivery systems, producing design docs that DE2s, DE3s, and senior engineers can implement against

Define and evolve the team’s frameworks, conventions, and reference patterns for pipelines, Airflow DAGs, testing, monitoring, and catalog registration so new sources onboard quickly and consistently

Lead diagnosis of the novel data integrity, performance, and reliability problems that escalate past senior engineers, driving systemic fixes and turning recurring failures into runbooks, automation, or better design

Set and track reliability standards (SLOs, alerting, on-call health) and reduce operational toil

Lead data security and governance strategy, including PII masking, RBAC, data classification, and lineage, in partnership with Security, Legal, and Compliance

Design reverse ETL and data delivery integrations (e.g., Segment, LaunchDarkly, Kafka, S3) with clear SLAs, downstream-impact analysis, and failure-handling guarantees

Drive platform decisions on Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS, including cost optimization, capacity planning, and build-vs-buy evaluation

Lead spec and design review, anticipating downstream impact, race conditions, idempotency gaps, and failure modes before code is written, and review high-risk PRs with rigor

Partner with BI, Data Science, Product, and business leadership to turn ambiguous requirements into scalable solutions, prioritize competing demands, and shape the roadmap