Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of the studio’s data stack, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and alignment with both technical and business goals.
• Collaborate with analytics and game development teams to create broader insights and build data systems that provide valuable, actionable information.
• Participate in all stages of agile software development and lifecycle management, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Develop near real-time and batch-based data processing frameworks to support live game operations, player behavior analysis, and other key business insights.
• Build and maintain large-scale data pipelines, ensuring high performance and low latency across diverse data sets.
• Design and implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate deployment and streamline processes.
• Develop tools and software that enhance our ability to capture, process, and analyze data at scale, improving decision-making for all teams.
• Oversee the integration of data security, ensuring compliance with GDPR, PII policies, and best practices in data governance.
• Provide technical leadership on data engineering projects, setting standards, guiding architecture decisions, and ensuring delivery aligns with the studio's strategic goals.
• Mentor and lead on data engineering in the studio, fostering a collaborative environment of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in data engineering and apply cutting-edge practices and technologies to maintain our data infrastructure’s competitiveness and efficiency.

Requirements

• Extensive experiencein data engineering, with demonstrated leadership in designing and managing data architectures at scale.
• Product-focused mindsetwith a passion for understanding the games we create and how data can enhance both player experience and business performance.
• Demonstrated expertise indata architecture patterns, including experience building CI/CD data stacks and optimizing data infrastructure for scale and performance.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms(AWS, GCP, or Azure) and experience deploying large-scale data systems in a cloud environment.
• Significant experience withcloud-based big data ecosystemssuch as Snowflake and familiarity with modern data infrastructure tools like DBT, Airflow, and Kafka.
• Proficiency in SQL & Pythonrequired; experience with Java or Scala is a plus.
• Hands-on experience withcontainerizationtechnologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration systems for deploying and maintaining applications.
• Strong experience withLinux/Unix systems, including scripting (bash) and managing production environments.
• Proven expertise inETL/ELT pipeline developmentand working with large, diverse data sets at scale.
• Strong experience with agile methodologies, turninguser stories into actionable engineering tasks, and driving impactful development through collaboration with product owners.
• Knowledge ofdata governance, security protocols, and best practices related toGDPR, PII, and other data privacyregulations.
• Ability to build strong relationships across teams, empowering engineers and stakeholders through clear communication and collaboration.

• Previous experience leading data engineering efforts within the gaming industry or other fast-paced, data-driven environments.
• Experience indata visualization tools(e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI) and the ability to interpret and present complex data insights in a user-friendly way.
• Experience working on projects that involvereal-time telemetry,player behavior analytics, or other high-volume, real-time data applications.
• Demonstrated success in leading or contributing to theconsolidation of data systems.

Benefits

• Unlimited coaching & therapy— with Oliva, to support your mental health
• Stock Options— everyone owns a piece of our success
• Pension scheme— up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years
• Socials—office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties
• And even more benefits based on your location!

• 25 Annual Leave + 3 bank holidays- we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
• Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
• Healthcare Cash Plan- Level 3 cover with Medicash
• Cycle2WorkScheme- lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
• Electric Car Charging- electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.