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Data Engineer – Core Data Models & Reporting

King
City of London
1 week ago
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Craft: Data, Analytics & Strategy


Job Description: Data Engineer – Core Data Models & Reporting


King is a worldwide leader in mobile gaming, home to some of the most iconic casual games in history, including Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and Bubble Witch Saga. You will work alongside talented people from many crafts, in offices designed for creativity, collaboration and fun in a team-first hybrid mode.


With petabytes of data and billions of events generated every day, data sits at the heart of everything we do. The Core Data Models & Reporting team transforms this data into reliable, impactful and well-documented data products that support decision making across King, from game teams and finance to marketing and player experience.


You will join a small collaborative team currently spread across Barcelona, London and Stockholm, working with engineers and analysts across Shared Tech and beyond. You will help build and maintain core data pipelines, improve existing products, and design clean, trustworthy data models that empower hundreds of users across King.


Your Role Within the Kingdom

  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand their data needs and design scalable solutions
  • Build, maintain and optimise data pipelines and models using SQL, Python and Airflow
  • Design and develop BI and reporting products such as Looker models, dashboards and data visualisations
  • Contribute to our data modelling standards and best practices to ensure quality, reliability and cost efficiency
  • Collaborate with other data engineering teams to ensure consistent architecture and tooling
  • Take ownership of your work from design and testing to deployment and documentation

Skills To Create Thrills

  • Strong SQL skills, able to write complex and performant queries with ease.
  • Solid experience in Python development for data workflows
  • Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines, ideally with Apache Airflow or a similar orchestration tool
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, GCS, etc.) or another major cloud provider
  • Good understanding of data modelling principles and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a problem-solving attitude
  • Experience building dashboards and visualisations in Looker, Tableau or similar BI platforms
  • A curious and proactive mindset and a willingness to learn and broaden your skills

Bonus Points

  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Drone or GitHub Actions
  • Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
  • Experience working in an Agile team environment
  • Understanding of real-time data feeds and event-based architectures
  • Contributions to open source projects

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide!


About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, lifeatking on Instagram, or king_games on X.


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