Department: Football Research
Hours of Work: Full-time
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Location: Flexible
Closing Date: Sunday 12th June
1. The Department
The Aston Villa Football Research department champions evidence-based practice, explores the Club’s future best practices and synthesises approaches across our football departments (e.g. Coaching, Player Recruitment, Physical Performance), to help the Club drive towards its ambitious footballing vision. We aim to advise and provide high quality knowledge to our stakeholders across the First Team (Men’s & Women’s), Academy and Executive Team.
2. The Role
We seek a committed, growth-minded and multi-faceted Data Engineer to add value and grow across three areas (Data Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and Machine Learning Engineering) to horizontally underpin our Club’s evidence-based decision making. With proven experience utilising the latest best practices within data and software engineering, an eye on future best practices and an open-source mindset, you will play a key role evolving our distributed batch and streaming data infrastructure and architecture, speeding up and scaling out our throughput, and building a high quality codebase underpinning our football research—all in order to provide football stakeholders in the First Team, Academy and Executive Team higher quality evidence for their decisions, support on-/off-field performance improvements and create operational efficiencies.
For further information about the Role, please see the Role Profile.
3. The Person
You will have demonstrable experience solving problems within data engineering, particularly in a cloud-based, modern tech stack. You will have experience ingesting, manipulating and governing large datasets and like automating tasks and optimising workflows to make operational efficiencies, with an idea of how to manage ML models and contribute to research/data science projects with engineering solutions. You enjoy writing clean, robust and testable code (Python and/or Scala preferred) and creating domain abstractions to ensure high standards are maintained throughout a data architecture and research process. You are happy communicating with stakeholders from various departments and technical backgrounds to take projects end-to-end and iteratively for support.
As part of your application, please ensure you upload your CV and Cover Letter.
Right to Close Vacancy Posting Early
The Club reserves the right to close any advertised vacancies earlier than the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received.
Equality Statement
Aston Villa Football Club celebrates the diversity of its Club and embrace equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and fully support The FAs Football Leadership Diversity Code.
We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, sex and religion or belief.
Safeguarding Statement
Aston Villa Football Club is fully committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk across our Club. As such, we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes and for some roles a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service may be required prior to starting in a role at the Club. For more information, please see Aston Villa Football Club | The official club website | AVFC - Safeguarding