Senior Software Engineer(.Net & SQL)

The Stats Developer builds, supports, and improves the systems and integrations that power live sports statistics across DAZN/Fox Sports products and broadcast workflows.

Responsibilities

• The role focuses on ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing sports data from third-party providers and internal capture systems so it can be used reliably by digital products, broadcast graphics, and internal stakeholders.
• This role sits at the intersection of sports data, live operations, product delivery, and stakeholder support — covering provider integrations, internal capture platforms, broadcast data feeds, and operational support for a 24x7 sports data environment.

Sports Data Integrations

• Build, maintain, and support integrations with external sports data providers including, but not limited to Sport radar and Champion Data.
• Support real-time and near-real-time ingestion pipelines for sports such as AFL, Netball, NRL, Cricket, Football, Basketball, Motorsport, and others as required
• Map provider data into internal schemas and publishing models used by APIs, widgets, broadcast systems, and internal tools
• Investigate and resolve issues with incoming feeds, data quality, sequencing, match states, and downstream publishing
• Support changes required when providers update feed structures, fields, or delivery patterns

Internal Stats Capture Support

• Support and enhance in-house stats capture systems used for sports including NRL and Cricket
• Work closely with the internal stats division to ensure captured data is correctly stored, validated, published, and displayed
• Help maintain the tools and workflows used for live capture, correction, validation, and display of match statistics
• Support internal users of capture and display systems during live events and operational windows
• Assist with issue triage, defect resolution, and continuous improvement of internal stats workflows

Broadcast and Graphics Support

• Support data delivery for OB graphics and related broadcast workflows, including integrations that feed systems such as Virtual Eye
• Ensure live and post-match data is available in the correct format and at the right time for on-air and production use
• Troubleshoot issues affecting graphics, overlays, scoreboards, and other production-facing data outputs
• Work with broadcast, production, and operational stakeholders to support live event requirements

Internal Stakeholder Support

• Support internal stakeholders across stats operations, editorial, digital, product, broadcast, and production
• Help deliver and maintain data used in scoreboards, match centres, fixtures, ladders, player stats, breakdowns, and related sports experiences
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, QA, and operations teams to improve reliability and usability of stats products
• Investigate and resolve data issues raised by internal users and business teams
• Provide technical support and clear communication during incidents, live issues, and post-event reviews

Platform Support, Operations, and On-Call

• Support a 24x7 sports data platform that underpins live scores, statistics, capture, and broadcast data services
• Participate in an on-call roster to support live and business-critical sports data systems outside standard business hours
• Monitor and respond to incidents affecting provider integrations, internal capture systems, publishing pipelines, and downstream consumers
• Perform production support, issue triage, root cause analysis, and service recovery during live sporting events
• Support planned sporting calendars, peak event periods, and critical match windows where operational responsiveness is essential
• Contribute to operational readiness, support documentation, and continuous improvement of platform reliability
• Integrating and supporting Sportradar feeds for schedules, scores, standings, and player/team data
• Integrating and supporting Champion Data feeds for sports such as AFL and Netball

Supporting internal capture platforms for NRL and Cricket

• Delivering and maintaining data feeds for OB graphics and Virtual Eye
• Supporting internal stats products used by editorial, digital, production, and operations teams
• Improving the reliability and usability of live stats capture and display workflows
• Supporting platform operations, incident response, and live-event troubleshooting in a 24x7 environment
• o stored procedures
• o views o triggers
• o data investigation and troubleshooting

Preferred

• Experience in a sports broadcast, sports media, or live operations environment
• Familiarity with OB graphics, Virtual Eye, or other production graphics/data workflows
• Experience supporting capture and display tools used by internal operational teams
• Knowledge of sports data products such as scoreboards, ladders, player stats, match breakdowns, and fixtures
• Experience participating in on-call support or supporting 24x7 production platforms
• Experience with incident management, service recovery, and post-incident review processes

Key Responsibilities

Typical Project Areas

• Assisting with new sports, new competitions, and changes to provider data structures or downstream requirements
• Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
• Core Technical Skills
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Strong SQL skills including:
• o query writing o performance-aware database development

Experience working with .NET / C# applications

• Experience supporting or developing desktop applications used for operational or capture workflows
• Experience working with data integration services, import processes, and real-time or near-real time data pipelines

Experience with XML, JSON, and API/data-feed integration patterns

Experience troubleshooting production issues across application, database, and integration layers

CI/CD and Github actions

Expertise in EKS, Argo and AWS suite Sports Data / Platform Experience

Experience working with sports data, live data feeds, or real-time integrations

Experience integrating third-party providers such as Sportradar, Champion Data, or similar

Experience supporting systems used in broadcast, graphics, digital sports products, or sports statistics platforms

Experience supporting operational or live-event systems where timeliness and accuracy are critical

Ability to work closely with internal operational stakeholders in high-pressure live environments .NET / Application Stack

Based on the nature of the platform and internal tooling, the role should be comfortable working across:

o C# / .NET applications o Microsoft SQL Server-backed applications o Desktop applications used by internal stats/capture teams o Service and integration applications that support ingestion, transformation, and publishing of sports data o SQL Server in production environments o Experience with modern and legacy .NET application stacks