Enablement Director – Data
Flutter UK&I is evolving its technology foundations to support long-term growth, innovation, and operational excellence. At the heart of this evolution is Enablement 2.0 — reimagining core technology capabilities as long-lived product organisations that power our customer-facing tribes (Sports, Customer, Gaming) and provide critical services across the region and group. This role will be part of the Enablement SuperTribe leadership team. As the Enablement Director – Data, reporting to the MD of Enablement, you will play a pivotal role in this transformation. You will lead a distributed team of 150–200 engineers and data specialists based across Europe, responsible for building and operating a world-class Data Platform. Your mission is to deliver trusted, scalable data infrastructure that serves as the single source of truth for Flutter UK&I — and the foundation from which our teams unlock AI and data-driven capabilities.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for the Data Platform — establishing trusted, scalable, AI-ready foundations built on technologies including Databricks and Redshift.
- Build and lead a distributed, multi-disciplinary team of 150–200 engineers and data specialists across European locations, designing, delivering, and operating internal data products with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering productivity.
- Partner with leaders across Product and Engineering in a "two-in-a-box" model to ensure your platform roadmaps align with business priorities.
- Define the data architecture and governance model that makes Flutter’s data AI-ready — ensuring quality, accessibility, and the lineage needed to power machine learning and generative AI use cases safely and at scale.
- Champion a "platform-as-a-product" approach, focused on delivering capabilities that are leveraged across the organisation.
- Drive key technical and architectural decisions for the data landscape, with a clear eye on the architectural choices that enable AI and ML adoption downstream.
- Own the budget, workforce planning, and supplier management for your domains.
- Actively contribute to the Enablement Leadership Team, shaping the evolution of our strategy, operating model, and culture.
- Proven Technology Leader: A significant track record at a senior level leading Data Platform engineering in a complex, fast-paced tech environment — ideally at scale, with distributed teams across multiple European locations (required).
- Strategic Programme Delivery: Strong experience leading Data platform programmes from concept to value realisation, with a proven ability to deliver complex, multi-year initiatives that unlock analytics and AI capabilities (required).
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in modern data platforms and data engineering — including hands-on experience with technologies such as Databricks and Redshift — alongside strong data governance, cloud architecture, and ML-enablement knowledge (required).
- Platform Experience: You have successfully built and scaled central technology platforms, ideally shifting teams from a project to a product-oriented operating model leveraging strategi platforms like Redshift and DataBricks (required).
- Strategic Thinker: You can create a compelling vision that connects business needs with technology solutions and execute against it (required).
- Exceptional People Leader: You are passionate about developing talent and have a proven ability to attract, retain, and grow top data engineers and leaders across distributed, multi-site European teams (required).
- Highly Collaborative: You build trust and influence at all levels and have a proven ability to work effectively in matrixed environments, particularly in a "two-in-a-box" product and engineering structure (required).
- Bonus scheme
- Flexible holiday allowance!
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
- Invest via the Flutter Sharesave Scheme
- Enhanced parental leave
Flutter Entertainment is the world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector. The UK & Ireland region of Flutter unites some of the biggest brands in the betting and gaming industry; Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars, Sky Betting & Gaming and tombola - bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.