Senior Big Data Engineer

Company: Gaming Innovation Group
Location: St Julians, Malta
Type: hybrid
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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Gaming Innovation Group (GiG), a company in the gaming industry, is hiring a Senior Big Data Engineer for a 6-month project in St Julians, Malta. The role focuses on designing and maintaining ETL processes, data pipelines, and real-time big data solutions. Tech stack includes Python and/or Java, Spark, Kafka, Nifi, SQL databases, and cloud/distributed systems. Requires strong object-oriented programming skills, expertise in schema design, and experience with large-scale data extraction.

At GiG we are looking to hire a Senior Big Data Engineer for a 6-month project in our Data department. You will assume a pivotal role in taking ownership of the analysis, design, building, support of major realtime big data projects and contribute to
the team's success through code reviews, promoting best practices and
implementing robust solutions across all aspects of big data endeavours.

Embracing this vital role, the Senior Big Data Engineer is instrumental in driving data-driven excellence, harnessing the power of information for strategic decision-making, and fostering organisational growth and success.
  • Design, create, and maintain ETL processes, data integrations, and data pipelines
  • Ensure seamless handling of vast amounts of data.
  • Leverage extensive knowledge, the engineer develops high-performance services to efficiently process, store, and analyse large datasets
    using optimised code.
  • Aim to maintain data accuracy and reliability, takes the lead in designing and implementing data validation and quality checks tailored to meet specific business needs.
  • Troubleshoot live production systems is a regular part of the engineer's responsibilities, ensuring smooth operations and swift issue resolution.
  • Demonstrate an innovative spirit, the engineer actively tests and
    implements new technologies, staying abreast of the latest advancements relevant to current and future projects.
  • Strong object oriented programming skills - ideally Python and/or Java
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Nifi, and Big
  • Data datastores
  • Strong understanding of schema design methodologies and data models
  • Expert in extracting large datasets using SQL, familiarity with SQL
  • databases
  • Strong experience with cloud computed and/or distributed systems
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About the Company

Name: Gaming Innovation Group
Location: Malta, France, Spain, and the UK
Website: https://gig.pinpointhq.com

At GiG, we're a leading global iGaming platform provider, powering the sustainable growth of our customer-centric partnerships with innovative excellence, scalable technology, and world-class solutions. This innovation fuels sustainable growth for our partners, while our people-first culture nurtures and fuels extraordinary talent. We stand out in a competitive industry for more than innovative world-class products, but for our greatest assets, eXceptional people. We are more than an entity listed on Nasdaq. We are committed to continuous learning, professional development, personal growth and recognition, and our investment goes beyond that, into our teams’ families, local communities and their futures - so that no matter where a GiGster is in the world, they thrive. With entities in Malta, France, Spain, and the UK, our hybrid work model gives our GiGsters the freedom to excel and reflects our commitment to flexibility, sustainability, and long-term prosperity.

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