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The Club has a unique integrated business model, comprising racing and racecourse entertainment, a membership club, responsible sports wagering and lottery, and charities and community contribution. Through this model, the Club generates economic and social value for the community and supports the HKSAR Government in combatting illegal gambling.\nThe Department\nJoin us as we shape the future of sports and entertainment at the Club through a strategic mission to transform our digital capabilities. Our flagship programme, operating under the internal acronym ‘AOP’, aims to Accelerate our Platform, Product, People, Performance and Potential, bringing this strategy to life through innovation and delivery excellence.\nAOP's work spans product, technology, operations, delivery and change, creating next-generation experiences and strengthening the capabilities that support the Club's future growth. We are a diverse team passionate about solving complex challenges, delivering meaningful impact, and creating value for customers, members, the Club and the wider community.\nThe Job\nDefine and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, best practices, reference architectures, and roadmaps for modern data platforms\nDesign and govern scalable data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse platforms, data integration patterns, and analytical solutions\nLead data modelling activities, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support business, operational, and analytical use cases\nEstablish and promote best practices for data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, security, privacy, and master/reference data management\nPartner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, Data Engineers, and downstream application teams to ensure architecture, data models, and data contracts align with business and operational requirements\nProvide architecture guidance and design reviews for data pipelines, integrations, APIs, messaging solutions, and platform enhancements\nDrive platform scalability, reliability, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimisation across databases, data warehouses, and data lake environments\nPromote modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, observability, and platform governance\nEvaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations on future data, analytics, AI, and cloud capabilities\nAbout you\n8-12 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related disciplines, with demonstrated architecture ownership for enterprise-scale platforms\nStrong hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-based data platforms on AWS, Azure, or other major cloud platforms\nProven expertise in data architecture, data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse design principles\nStrong experience in data modelling, including dimensional modelling, Data Vault, and operational data modelling techniques\nExperience establishing and implementing data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, and security frameworks\nStrong understanding of distributed data processing technologies such as Spark and cloud-native analytics services\nExperience designing highly scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient platforms handling large volumes of data\nPractical experience optimising database, data warehouse, and data lake performance, storage design, resource utilisation, and cloud operating costs\nStrong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps/DataOps practices, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent), and platform automation\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and business audiences\nExperience in gaming, entertainment, loyalty, customer analytics, or related industries\nExperience with Medallion Architecture, Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, or other modern architectural patterns\nExperience with real-time and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Solace, Event Hub, or similar technologies\nKnowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, messaging architectures, and data contract design\nExperience with cloud migration, platform modernisation, and hybrid-cloud implementations\nKnowledge of Chinese cloud platforms and ecosystems such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, or Volcano Engine\nExposure to AI/ML, Generative AI, RAG, vector databases, LLM platforms, or MLOps architectures\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline\nAWS, Azure, Databricks, Terraform, or other relevant cloud and data platform certifications are advantageous\nData Processing: PySpark, SQL, Spark, Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory\nCloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lake Formation), Azure (ADLS, Synapse, Databricks, Fabric, Event Hub), Terraform, CloudFormation\nData Architecture & Modelling: Dimensional Modelling, Data Vault, Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Medallion Architecture\nDevelopment & Automation: Python, GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code\nMonitoring & Governance: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, Governance Frameworks\nIntegration & Streaming: APIs, Kafka, Solace, Event Hub, Event-Driven Architectures\nAI & Advanced Analytics (Preferred): Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vector Databases, RAG, LLM Platforms, AI/ML Workloads\nApply Now!\nWe offer competitive salary and benefits packages, a dynamic working environment and development opportunities.\nAdd horsepower to your career today. If you do not meet all of the requirements but still believe you can make a difference, please apply.\nEqual Opportunity and Inclusive Hiring\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and strive to create an inclusive workplace for all. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are welcomed to apply. If you have any special needs or require accommodations during the interview process, please e-mail us via . Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with the Club's notice to employees and job applicants relating to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. 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