Lead Data Engineer

About Better Collective Sports media at scale, running on data Better Collective is a global sports media group, reaching more than 400 million monthly visits across a portfolio of leading sports media brands. We build products and experiences that make sports more engaging and accessible for fans around the world. Behind that sits a large and diverse technology and data landscape, spanning markets, brands and business models. We work in a collaborative environment where people are encouraged to challenge how things are done, take ownership and help shape what comes next. The domain Paid media is where the data has to pay off. We spend real money across dozens of ad networks every day. Which campaigns scale, which creatives get cut, which markets get more budget: those calls come out of the models this team builds. Ad platform spend and delivery, affiliate and operator revenue, CRM data, all stitched into one user-level view of what a click was actually worth. That model exists and it works. It is also the most demanding domain on our data platform - the most sources, the fastest schema churn, and the shortest patience for a table that landed late. We are looking for the engineer who owns it. Where this role sits A central platform team sets the how. You set the what. Better Collective runs a hub and spoke data organisation. A central data platform team owns the platform itself - MotherDuck, dbt, Dagster, DLT, the golden paths, the standards, the infrastructure. Paid Media