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Data Engineer - Job Advert

By moore_94, in Leicester City Forum

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moore_94

moore_94

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https://trainingground.guru/job/data-engineer-leicester-city/
 

About the role

 

Leicester City Football Club are excited to be recruiting for a skilled and enthusiastic Data Engineer to join the Club’s Performance Analysis department. This role will play an integral part in the development of the department’s data pipelines and maintenance of existing databases.

 

This role will also be responsible for building a high-quality codebase to serve the data analysis and data science functions, directly supporting the success of the Club’s First Team.

 

Main Objectives:

Take a lead role in developing the club’s databases and data pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable data flows across the First Team football departments.

 

Automate and optimise ETL processes, transforming raw data from various sources into high-quality, structured datasets ready for analysis and reporting.

Manage the club’s cloud-based data resources (AWS).

 

Collaborate with data specialists to translate business requirements into technical data solutions, supporting data-driven decision-making across the club.

Drive improvements in data architecture, to support advanced analytics, reporting, and dashboarding.

 

Ensure the security, documentation, and continuous improvement of the club’s data assets through strong version control and best practices.

 

Contribute to the data strategy of the club, working closely with data specialists across First Team football departments.

Support the clubs Data Scientists and Analysts in meeting their reporting and data discovery objectives.

 

Continually develop and improve skills in the field of data engineering and data science.

 

At all times, carry out their responsibilities with due regard to the Club values and policies and procedures, in particular Health & Safety, Equality and Diversity, Confidentiality and with regard to the Data Protection Act.

lfu

lfu

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10 minutes ago, Collymore said:

What do we reckon this pays? £60 -70k per year? 

Closer to half that

Football clubs really don't pay that much for the data analysis side, it's more like something to use to make your resume more attractive when you apply for a job at a big tech firm in 3-4 years

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funkyrobot

funkyrobot

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1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

https://trainingground.guru/job/data-engineer-leicester-city/
 

About the role

 

Leicester City Football Club are excited to be recruiting for a skilled and enthusiastic Data Engineer to join the Club’s Performance Analysis department. This role will play an integral part in the development of the department’s data pipelines and maintenance of existing databases.

 

This role will also be responsible for building a high-quality codebase to serve the data analysis and data science functions, directly supporting the success of the Club’s First Team.

 

Main Objectives:

Take a lead role in developing the club’s databases and data pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable data flows across the First Team football departments.

 

Automate and optimise ETL processes, transforming raw data from various sources into high-quality, structured datasets ready for analysis and reporting.

Manage the club’s cloud-based data resources (AWS).

 

Collaborate with data specialists to translate business requirements into technical data solutions, supporting data-driven decision-making across the club.

Drive improvements in data architecture, to support advanced analytics, reporting, and dashboarding.

 

Ensure the security, documentation, and continuous improvement of the club’s data assets through strong version control and best practices.

 

Contribute to the data strategy of the club, working closely with data specialists across First Team football departments.

Support the clubs Data Scientists and Analysts in meeting their reporting and data discovery objectives.

 

Continually develop and improve skills in the field of data engineering and data science.

 

At all times, carry out their responsibilities with due regard to the Club values and policies and procedures, in particular Health & Safety, Equality and Diversity, Confidentiality and with regard to the Data Protection Act.

We need someone to input and number crunch the data, but we know the answer will ALWAYS be:-

 

‘Buy or Loan an ageing squad player from Crystal Palace or Fulham.’ 

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Stadt

Stadt

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3 minutes ago, lfu said:

Closer to half that

Football clubs really don't pay that much for the data analysis side, it's more like something to use to make your resume more attractive when you apply for a job at a big tech firm in 3-4 years

Yep, people are so desperate to work in football people with masters degrees will work for near minimum wage given the hours.

 

There’s some alpha in clubs paying big money to build better backroom departments. For probably the cost of half of Luke Thomas’ annual salary we could build a top 10 data/analysis dept in world football. 

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funkyrobot

funkyrobot

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I put the numbers together to try and find the perfect new manager (and hopefully bag myself the data analyst job at the same time) and my data analysis has allowed me to create a composite of a potential new manager.
 

My data shows the new boss should be an amalgamation of Sam Allardici, with a bit of Stevie Bruce, Alan ‘Pards’ Pardew and (of course) Meggo. The most obvious choice based on bringing those skills together is surely ex Notts Forest manager Stevie Cooper. You heard it here first. 

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fazzyfox

fazzyfox

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I’ve submitted my sample piece of analysis as a job application:-


“According to my exhaustive detailed analysis of this seasons data, I can conclude that the other team are scoring more goals than us. My recommended ideal outcome is for this to stop.”

 

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Xen

Xen

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15 hours ago, Stadt said:

Yep, people are so desperate to work in football people with masters degrees will work for near minimum wage given the hours.

 

There’s some alpha in clubs paying big money to build better backroom departments. For probably the cost of half of Luke Thomas’ annual salary we could build a top 10 data/analysis dept in world football. 

This is my field, and for a while at uni I was considering going down this route (Maths with Stats at Loughborough uni, so a relevant masters would've been relatively easy to transition to).

 

When you look at how competitive it is with people wanting an 'in' to football and the relatively limited number of positions, they can afford to pay peanuts and just get by on the number of applicants driving the salary down. It's why the salary is only ever listed as 'competitive'.

 

I'd wager that a comparable job in the civil service (where I am currently) would probably be somewhere between 10-30% higher salary, with better benefits. Private sector could be as much as double in the right industry...

 

Would love to see us invest to become industry-leading on the analytics side. We've been up there previously and we're leading in other backroom depts (grounds/maintenance), so we're clearly capable of it. Would help us make the most out of Seagrave, at least.

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Finnegan

Finnegan

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16 hours ago, Collymore said:

What do we reckon this pays? £60 -70k per year? 

 

16 hours ago, lfu said:

Closer to half that

Football clubs really don't pay that much for the data analysis side, it's more like something to use to make your resume more attractive when you apply for a job at a big tech firm in 3-4 years

 

A data engineer isn't a data analyst.

 

This isn't a job for someone to find the next Riyad Mahrez or Ngolo Kante using data, it's a job for a qualified IT professional with a background in data engineering to help work on LCFC's data infastructure.

 

It's a pretty boring (unless you really love data infastructure), non-footballing role, every corporation in the world has data engineers in their IT departments.

 

You're probably looking at £40 - 60k, I'd guess somewhere in the lower 50s unless they get a great candidate.

 

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Collymore

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1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

 

A data engineer isn't a data analyst.

 

This isn't a job for someone to find the next Riyad Mahrez or Ngolo Kante using data, it's a job for a qualified IT professional with a background in data engineering to help work on LCFC's data infastructure.

 

It's a pretty boring (unless you really love data infastructure), non-footballing role, every corporation in the world has data engineers in their IT departments.

 

You're probably looking at £40 - 60k, I'd guess somewhere in the lower 50s unless they get a great candidate.

 

That's what I was thinking. It looked like there were some pretty niche skills required in the spec. 

KingsX

KingsX

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"The ideal candidate will demonstrate the skills required to hack into external systems and modify Profitability and Sustainability Rules data"

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