• Own technical architecture and implementation decisions for backend services and APIs within OCTO standards. • Drive XP engineering practices across the pod: pair programming, TDD, continuous integration, and collective code ownership. • Maintain delivery health, code quality, and production readiness as non-negotiable standards. • Collaborate as a peer with the UX and Infrastructure pod leads on cross-cutting architecture and integration. • Contribute to the engineering reuse catalog, designing services and APIs for use across multiple products and programs. • Manage, coach, and develop a team of senior engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will write and review code regularly.

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for the design, delivery, and reliability of our data platform • Guide a squad of 10–15 engineers in building scalable, observable, and well-modeled data systems • Drive design and best practices, mentor engineers, and partner with Program Management for releases • Collaborate across Analytics, RevOps, Data Ops, and Product to solve business problems • Oversee implementation and optimisation of workflows in GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, etc.) • Ensure scalable, modular pipeline design and adherence to strong data modeling principles

• Lead and grow a team of Database engineers responsible for MongoDB and PostgreSQL in production. • Own the operational excellence of our database layer, including availability, durability, performance, cost efficiency, and data residency. • Drive roadmap and strategy for multi-region architecture, backup and disaster recovery, indexing and schema governance, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation (Pulumi/Terraform). • Partner with Product Engineering to guide new access patterns, review high-impact launches for database risk, and establish guardrails that enable velocity without compromising reliability. • Improve reliability through proactive failure-mode detection, clear SLOs, actionable alerting, and high-quality incident response and retrospectives. • Build self-service tooling and paved roads for migrations, connection management, indexing, and query best practices. • Mentor and grow senior and staff engineers while contributing to broader infrastructure strategy across AWS, Kubernetes, and stateful systems architecture.

• Oversee and manage the Penn Game Studios engineering team including client engineer, server engineering and system administration. • Work with the Penn Interactive recruitment team to interview, hire and on-board new engineers at Penn Game Studios. • Regularly meet with the Penn Game Studios leadership team to plan the studio strategy, build the development roadmap, and ensure the studio has the proper resources to meet its goals. • Contribute to the architecture and design of major systems. • Research and apply new technologies to solve problems. • Apply standards across the engineering team, including testing, documentation and deployment. • Manage high level tasks and personnel making sure engineers are set up for success. • Read, write and review Go, Python, Javascript and shell scripts. • Work across teams to coordinate releases and integration of external features. • Help with the personal and professional development of engineers on the team.Other duties as required.