SV Darmstadt 98 - Bundesliga club
Automation with AWS Glue
Starting point
- Established Bundesliga club with a desire for data-driven scouting
- Data queries on players through various channels: ad-hoc and distributed across systems & users
- No unified environment for data generation and application development
- No central and reliable data platform serving as a 'Single Point of Truth'
- Scouting is based on selective data foundations or narratives
Role in the project
- Data Architect
- Data Engineer
Features/Project outcome
- Integration of multiple external data sources
- Automation through defined workflows and triggers
- Separation of clear development environments
- Introduction of a version control system
- Central data lake creates clarity about own data
- Building a player database
- Introduction of best practices to ensure security standards & data quality

Customer benefits
- Improved data quality for better clarity in football scouting
- Faster identification of players with potential based on multiple data sources
- Versatile perspectives through player database
- Focused and detailed reporting for internal alignment
- Strengthening in-house analysts and improving the quality of their reporting

Lars Ritter | Senior Manager