Digital Platform SME
Posted 1 day ago by Cognitive Group | Part of the Focus Cloud Group
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Digital Platform SME requires a Subject Matter Expert with extensive knowledge in sports betting and online casino operations. This position focuses on aligning technology decisions with real-world gambling practices, ensuring that product strategies and platform architectures are effectively grounded in operational realities. The SME will serve as a bridge between business, product, and technology teams, providing strategic insights into platform evolution and operational models. This is a fully remote position classified as inside IR35, requiring UK residency and engagement through an umbrella company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a bridge between business/product and technology teams
- Validate that target architectures support end-to-end betting and gambling workflows
- Advise on sportsbook and casino product capabilities, benchmarking against market standards
- Ensure initiatives and roadmaps are aligned to real use cases, not just theoretical designs
- Provide strategic input into platform evolution, including sportsbook functionality, casino aggregation models, and risk and trading operations
- Support senior stakeholders across product, technology, and operations
- Operate within a modern digital platform environment, including cloud-native, containerised microservices architectures, event-driven systems, API-led and BFF-based architectures, and high-throughput, low-latency transaction systems
Key Skills:
- Deep experience in sports betting and/or online casino platforms
- Strong understanding of sportsbook concepts: markets, odds, bet lifecycle, cashout, settlement
- Exposure to casino platforms and aggregation models
- Experience with operators, platform providers, or gambling technology vendors
- Experience working with modular gambling platforms where services are decoupled
- Familiarity with event-driven or service-oriented architectures
- Understanding of operating models involving product teams, trading & risk teams, and engineering teams working in parallel
- Previous roles involving functional ownership or SME advisory in gambling platforms
- Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders
- Strong credibility in both business and technology discussions
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with deep domain expertise in sports betting and/or online casino, who can bridge business, product, and technology. This person will play a critical role in ensuring that proposed platform architectures, product strategies, and operating models are grounded in real-world gambling operations and market practices. This engagement sits at the intersection of product, platform architecture, and gambling operations, with a strong emphasis on modern, cloud-native digital platforms. You will act as a functional authority, validating that technology decisions align with how sportsbook and casino platforms actually operate at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a bridge between business/product and technology teams
- Validate that target architectures support end-to-end betting and gambling workflows
- Advise on sportsbook and casino product capabilities, benchmarking against market standards
- Ensure initiatives and roadmaps are aligned to real use cases, not just theoretical designs
- Provide strategic input into platform evolution, including: Sportsbook functionality Casino aggregation models Risk and trading operations
- Support senior stakeholders across product, technology, and operations
You will operate within a modern digital platform environment, including: Cloud-native, containerised microservices architectures Event-driven systems (messaging, pub/sub) API-led and BFF-based architectures High-throughput, low-latency transaction systems Strong focus on scalability, resilience, observability, and security Note: This is not a hands-on engineering role, but requires strong architectural awareness.
Required Experience
Domain Expertise (Essential)
- Deep experience in sports betting and/or online casino platforms
- Strong understanding of sportsbook concepts: Markets, odds, bet lifecycle, cashout, settlement
- Risk and trading models
- Exposure to: Casino platforms and aggregation models Multi-jurisdiction gambling environments
- Experience with: Operators, platform providers, or gambling technology vendors
Platform & Operating Model Experience
- Experience working with modular gambling platforms where services are decoupled (betting, payments, risk, CRM)
- Familiarity with event-driven or service-oriented architectures
- Understanding of operating models involving: Product teams Trading & risk teams Engineering teams working in parallel
Strategic & Advisory Experience
- Previous roles involving: Functional ownership or SME advisory in gambling platforms Product roadmap definition or platform evolution
- Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders
- Strong credibility in both business and technology discussions
This is a fully remote inside IR35 Contract role working via umbrella company so you must be UK based and willing to work on this basis.