Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential of the world's top athletes.
Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry's top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers.
Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.
We're looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our team and help build and evolve our data platform. You'll work across analytics engineering, data pipelines, and data quality — collaborating closely with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product to turn raw data into reliable, scalable foundations.
What You'll Work On
Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
Contribute to Looker dashboards and LookML models, working alongside senior engineers and analysts
Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
Implement data quality checks using Dataform assertions and automated alerting
Support data observability across the warehouse — monitoring pipeline health, data freshness, and anomaly detection
Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration
Work with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow) to schedule and monitor workflows
Develop familiarity with CDC concepts and event-driven ingestion patterns (Datastream, Pub/Sub)
Containerise workloads with Docker for deployment on Cloud Run or similar GCP services
Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline
Contribute to feature pipelines and data preparation for ML workloads
Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, maintainable code
Analytics Engineering & Reporting
Data Pipelines & Ingestion
Data Science Collaboration
What We're Looking For
SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery
Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform; understanding of modular, version-controlled data transformation
Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code; comfortable with Git and CI/CD workflows
GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential; broader GCP exposure (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream) is a strong advantage
Orchestration experience — hands-on with Cloud Composer, Airflow, or a comparable tool
Data modelling fundamentals — dimensional modelling, Kimball principles, or medallion architecture patterns
Docker basics — able to containerise and deploy data workloads
Collaborative and communicative — able to translate business requirements into data models and work effectively with Analytics, Product, and Data Science stakeholders
Pragmatic approach to AI tooling — comfortable using AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality
Nice to have
Looker / LookML experience
Familiarity with CDC concepts and tools (Datastream, Debezium)
Exposure to ML frameworks or MLOps tooling (scikit-learn, MLflow, Vertex AI)
AWS experience as a complement (Redshift, Glue, RDS) — we value engineers who can draw on cross-cloud perspective
Curiosity about sports performance data
Why this role?
Skills Required
- Proficient SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
- Hands-on BigQuery experience
- Dataform experience (or strong dbt experience with willingness to use Dataform)
- Python with engineering practices (testing, linting) and experience with Git and CI/CD
- Experience with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow)
- Data modelling fundamentals (dimensional modelling, Kimball, or medallion architecture)
- Docker basics and ability to containerise data workloads
- Support data observability, implement data quality checks and automated alerting
- Collaborative communication with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product
- Familiarity with GCP services (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream)
- Looker / LookML experience
- Familiarity with CDC concepts and tools (Datastream, Debezium)
- Exposure to ML frameworks or MLOps tooling (scikit-learn, MLflow, Vertex AI)
- AWS experience (Redshift, Glue, RDS)
- Curiosity about sports performance data
What We Do
Kitman Labs is the industry leading sports analytics company, using artificial intelligence to increase athlete performance and health. Teams around the world in the NFL, NBA, NHL, EPL, Bundesliga, AFL, NRL and more rely on Kitman Labs' powerful insights to put their best team on the field and outperform the competition. Forged in professional sport and powered by some of the brightest data scientists in the world, Kitman Labs is committed to continual innovation to solve the toughest problems in human performance and unlock the connection between performance, health, and training. More than just a technology provider, we are known for our superior customer support, research-backed thought leadership, and bringing together some of the best minds in the industry to share, challenge and advance performance practices.
