JOB TITLE: Data Engineer

LOCATION: Flexible (Stamford Bridge Onsite/ Hybrid or Fully Remote)

CONTRACT: Full time, permanent Role

The Opportunity

We are looking for a talented Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the data infrastructure that drives decision-making at Chelsea. This is a unique opportunity to build and optimize scalable data pipelines that fuel analytics across football operations, recruitment, and performance analysis. You will collaborate closely with world-class data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to develop high-performance systems that ensure seamless data flow and unlock new insights for the club.

If you’re passionate about data engineering and want to make a real impact in the world of football, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines to integrate and process structured and unstructured football data (e.g., event data, tracking data, player data).
• Build and optimize the databases that power cutting-edge analytics in professional football.
• Work closely with data scientists to facilitate model deployment and MLOps best practices.
• Implement and maintain cloud-based data solutions using platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Monitor system performance, optimize queries, and improve data infrastructure efficiency.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and governance across all internal and external data sources.

What you will bring to the role

• Ideally a degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering or related field
• Solid software engineering skills, with experience in object-oriented programming, package development, and designing maintainable and scalable systems.
• Previous experience in a data engineering or similar role.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
• Strong database design and development skills.
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark).
• Solid understanding of MLOps frameworks and best practices, including model deployment workflows, model versioning, automated retraining, and monitoring.

What we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave 
• Pension Contribution (Perm & FT Employees 5%) 
• Private Health Insurance through Vitality 
• Life Assurance (4 x base salary)

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At Chelsea we recognise that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea FC. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.

Chelsea FC is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults at risk (vulnerable groups). We therefore require all successful applicants to complete a DBS Check prior to starting employment. Depending on the role, successful applicants may also be required to undergo other child protection screening where appropriate.

This Job Description is not intended to be exhaustive; the duties and responsibilities may therefore vary over time according to the changing needs of the Club