About the role
About Two Circles
We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues by helping our clients know fans best. We analyze fan behavior across spending, event attendance, channel engagement, and content consumption to empower leading sports and entertainment organizations. Our trusted platforms and services are used by over 900 clients globally – from the English Premier League, UEFA, NFL, and Red Bull, to Amazon, Nike, and VISA. With nearly 1,000 team members across 14 global offices, our impact spans the world of sports and entertainment.
About the KORE Intelligence Platform
The KORE Intelligence Platform is a best-in-class fan, partnership, and revenue intelligence solution. It aggregates data from an integration catalog of over 150 providers such as Ticketmaster, Eloqua, Shopify, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud, enabling powerful segmentation and actionable insights for rights-holders. Our platform underpins client strategies to drive audience growth, personalization, and commercial success.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Engineer with 3+ years' experience working on enterprise-scale data architectures, preferably within a cloud-native environment (AWS) to join us on a 6 month contract. You will bring deep expertise in designing and operating secure, highly available, and cost-optimized pipelines, with hands-on experience using tools like Spark, Kinesis, Airflow, and Terraform.
You'll collaborate closely with architects, DevOps engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to shape the future of our SaaS-based fan intelligence platform and ensure it meets the needs of high-volume, real-time data use cases.
***p=Preference to Vancouver area only
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant data pipelines supporting batch and streaming workloads.
Champion enterprise data governance, monitoring, and alerting practices, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, DevOps, BI, Client Services) to drive end-to-end delivery of data features.
Take ownership of pipeline performance, observability, cost efficiency, and CI/CD workflows.
Uphold high standards of code quality and engineering practices.
Contribute to the reliability and scalability of the platform through strong infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and automated testing frameworks.
Requirements
Experience Required
3+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer in cloud environments, working with high-throughput, enterprise-scale data pipelines.
Strong experience with AWS services: S3, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Redshift, EC2, EMR, IAM.
Demonstrated success managing secure data architectures with sensitive or regulated data (e.g., PII).
Proven expertise in big data architectures, including Data Lakes and Lake houses, leveraging AWS services like S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, and distributed computing with Apache Spark.
Practical experience with real-time data streaming using AWS Kinesis (Firehose and Data Streams) for scalable ingestion and processing.
Experience integrating with APIs, third-party data platforms, and real-time ingestion services.
Bonus points for experience and/or strong interest in AI-assisted programming tools and workflows.
Technical Skills
Strong programming experience in Python and at least one of Scala or C#.
Proven experience with Apache Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools) for job scheduling and workflow management.
Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with ECS or Kubernetes.
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Experience in setting up observability stacks and using tools such as New Relic, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Datadog.
Expertise in data testing and CI/CD, including unit testing (e.g., PyTest), data validation, and schema enforcement.
Understanding of streaming vs batch-oriented architectures, and when to use each approach.
Soft Skills
Self-directed and highly proactive, with strong ownership of delivery and quality.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical requirements into business impact.
Strong collaboration skills and a mindset for mentorship and knowledge-sharing.
Agile mindset, comfortable working in Scrum or Kanban environments.
Mindset & Values
Outcome-oriented, with a passion for delivering high-quality, maintainable, and secure data products.
Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving product landscape.
Values transparency, open communication, and a collaborative team culture.
Salary
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary for the 6 month term someone in this role may earn as an employee of Two Circles in Canada. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
$65,000-$83,200
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We value and want to have all types of candidates apply for roles at Two Circles. Therefore, we would love for you to fill out the Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form as part of your application. This form does not ask for your name or information that would make you personally identifiable.
About Two Circles
Founded in 2011, Two Circles is an international sports and entertainment marketing business that leverages data and knowing fans best, to help organizations grow audiences and revenues.
From thirteen international offices, Two Circles works with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment, including the NFL, Premier League, UEFA and EA. The business uses data to grow the volume and value of fan relationships across all channels, to increase revenue across media rights, sponsorship, retail and licensing and ticketing.
About the role
About Two Circles
We are Two Circles. We grow audiences and revenues by helping our clients know fans best. We analyze fan behavior across spending, event attendance, channel engagement, and content consumption to empower leading sports and entertainment organizations. Our trusted platforms and services are used by over 900 clients globally – from the English Premier League, UEFA, NFL, and Red Bull, to Amazon, Nike, and VISA. With nearly 1,000 team members across 14 global offices, our impact spans the world of sports and entertainment.
About the KORE Intelligence Platform
The KORE Intelligence Platform is a best-in-class fan, partnership, and revenue intelligence solution. It aggregates data from an integration catalog of over 150 providers such as Ticketmaster, Eloqua, Shopify, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud, enabling powerful segmentation and actionable insights for rights-holders. Our platform underpins client strategies to drive audience growth, personalization, and commercial success.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Engineer with 3+ years' experience working on enterprise-scale data architectures, preferably within a cloud-native environment (AWS) to join us on a 6 month contract. You will bring deep expertise in designing and operating secure, highly available, and cost-optimized pipelines, with hands-on experience using tools like Spark, Kinesis, Airflow, and Terraform.
You'll collaborate closely with architects, DevOps engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to shape the future of our SaaS-based fan intelligence platform and ensure it meets the needs of high-volume, real-time data use cases.
***p=Preference to Vancouver area only
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant data pipelines supporting batch and streaming workloads.
Champion enterprise data governance, monitoring, and alerting practices, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, DevOps, BI, Client Services) to drive end-to-end delivery of data features.
Take ownership of pipeline performance, observability, cost efficiency, and CI/CD workflows.
Uphold high standards of code quality and engineering practices.
Contribute to the reliability and scalability of the platform through strong infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and automated testing frameworks.
Requirements
Experience Required
3+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer in cloud environments, working with high-throughput, enterprise-scale data pipelines.
Strong experience with AWS services: S3, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Redshift, EC2, EMR, IAM.
Demonstrated success managing secure data architectures with sensitive or regulated data (e.g., PII).
Proven expertise in big data architectures, including Data Lakes and Lake houses, leveraging AWS services like S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, and distributed computing with Apache Spark.
Practical experience with real-time data streaming using AWS Kinesis (Firehose and Data Streams) for scalable ingestion and processing.
Experience integrating with APIs, third-party data platforms, and real-time ingestion services.
Bonus points for experience and/or strong interest in AI-assisted programming tools and workflows.
Technical Skills
Strong programming experience in Python and at least one of Scala or C#.
Proven experience with Apache Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools) for job scheduling and workflow management.
Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with ECS or Kubernetes.
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Experience in setting up observability stacks and using tools such as New Relic, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Datadog.
Expertise in data testing and CI/CD, including unit testing (e.g., PyTest), data validation, and schema enforcement.
Understanding of streaming vs batch-oriented architectures, and when to use each approach.
Soft Skills
Self-directed and highly proactive, with strong ownership of delivery and quality.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical requirements into business impact.
Strong collaboration skills and a mindset for mentorship and knowledge-sharing.
Agile mindset, comfortable working in Scrum or Kanban environments.
Mindset & Values
Outcome-oriented, with a passion for delivering high-quality, maintainable, and secure data products.
Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving product landscape.
Values transparency, open communication, and a collaborative team culture.
Salary
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary for the 6 month term someone in this role may earn as an employee of Two Circles in Canada. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
$65,000-$83,200
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We value and want to have all types of candidates apply for roles at Two Circles. Therefore, we would love for you to fill out the Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form as part of your application. This form does not ask for your name or information that would make you personally identifiable.
About Two Circles
Founded in 2011, Two Circles is an international sports and entertainment marketing business that leverages data and knowing fans best, to help organizations grow audiences and revenues.
From thirteen international offices, Two Circles works with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment, including the NFL, Premier League, UEFA and EA. The business uses data to grow the volume and value of fan relationships across all channels, to increase revenue across media rights, sponsorship, retail and licensing and ticketing.