ABOUT US
The ABB FIA Formula E Championship is the world’s first fully-electric international single-seater racing series and one of the fastest growing sports on the planet.
Consisting of some of the world’s finest drivers and greatest car manufacturers, the Championship brings close-combat, wheel-to-wheel racing to the streets of the most progressive cities.
Formula E is more than just a race. With a grid made up of all-electric cars, it’s a competitive platform to test and develop road-relevant technologies, helping to refine the design of electric vehicles while promoting the uptake of clean mobility to tackle air pollution on a global scale.
WORKING WITH US
At Formula E, we have created an environment that supports our colleagues to perform at their best. We are innovative, curious and we love the world we live in which is why we value sustainability. We believe that work should be fun and, whilst we are passionate about delivery, we are one team and supporting each other is key to our success.
YOUR ROLE
Working closely with the Head of Insight and Head of Technology, the Data Engineer will be responsible for implementing big data technologies across the business. You will also be tasked with the development and implementation of scripts for database maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning etc.
Supported by the wider Insight and Analytics team, you will design and lead on datasets relating to social media, telemetry, broadcast audiences, digital media, as well as more broad cultural and situational data pertinent to the development of your sport.
The focus of this role is on developing data infrastructure through which to analyse the development of Formula E, working on an end-to-end data solution – from ingesting data and APIs, IOT sensors and other high volume sources, cleaning, validating and storing data, aggregating information and providing a platform for analysis by working on the data lake. You will facilitate the Insight and Analytics teams in creating predictive models and aiming to discover patterns in data.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Build the data lake
- Design data systems that will scale to service teams across the business
- Acquire data from multiple sources and databases
- Data transformations to allow search, indexing and relational discovery
- Develop process improvement opportunities
- Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to enable business KPI tracking
- Develop tools to help the data collection process.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Experience developing data lakes and big data systems
- Experience using multiple programming and scripting languages
- Familiarity with statistical modelling, machine learning and data mining
- Experience with network and web related protocols.
We use a variety of programming languages and believe in the right tool for each job. Having a willingness to learn quickly and adapt to new situations are important to us.