Senior Data Engineer

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Edinburgh
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Senior Data Engineer

Department:Data Analytics & Insights

Employment Type:Permanent - Full Time

Location:Edinburgh


Description

Data is at the heart of player, product, and business insights on our titles. This critical role will build and grow the foundation for our studio in insights about our players and our business. The role will report to the Director of Data, Analytics & Insights (DAI). The person in this role is most successful when they can merge technical skill with user needs to drive highly scalable, robust CI/CD data ecosystems used to create incredible insights while helping to grow a team of amazing engineers to learn and succeed. If that’s you then we should talk!
The Senior Data Engineer will work as part of a team of amazing engineers to deliver and manage a data stack that will fuel the whole studio on insights for our games, players, and overall business. Collaborate with internal and external teams and stakeholders to develop and deliver data solutions and capabilities that integrate with online gaming technology.


Key Responsibilities

  • Help 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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

Our Global Benefits & Perks
  • 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!
If you’re based in the UK
  • 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.

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