Senior Data Developer - Dead by Daylight | Développeur·euse de données sénior·e - Dead by Daylight

Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge video game development? Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour Interactive is at the forefront of the gaming industry, crafting unforgettable experiences across PC, console, and mobile platforms. We’re a dynamic, independent studio of over 1200 passionate employees, with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) and in the UK (Behaviour UK–North & South). Our day to day revolves around two core business focuses: Services and Original Games. Our Services team collaborates with gaming and entertainment giants like Disney, Sony, Activision, and Nintendo, delivering exceptional work-for-hire development and pioneering immersive location-based entertainment (LBE). Meanwhile, our Original Games unit pushes our creative limits, with our signature IPs, including the iconic Dead by Daylight. Join us and be a part of the future of interactive entertainment!

At Behaviour Interactive, we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. We embrace a diverse and creative environment where everyone is celebrated. We value folks of all ages, sex, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, civil status, disability, or any other protected characteristics as per applicable law.

Behaviour is looking for a talented Senior Data Developer who will be improving our data pipelines to support an increasing volume of data and an expanding number of data users.

The Data Developer we’re looking for must be a quick learner and not be scared of challenging the current processes in place. They must know how to organize workloads efficiently to balance live operations and development. The ideal candidate has expertise in documenting processes, best practices, and platform usage guidelines to ensure clarity and effective knowledge sharing within the team.

This is a senior position, so we are specifically seeking someone who can bring their past experience to the table and elevate our team’s ability to efficiently handle the data for our games.

In this role you will:

• Using advanced SQL and Data Build Tools (dbt) on Snowflake, develop and improve the current data models to support the analysts, and user researchers for the game Dead By Daylight;
• Keep up to date and use best practices in testing, security, cost monitoring, performance monitoring and effective use of resources;
• Promote best practices and ensure consistency across games;
• Using Python and Airflow, develop and improve the current toolsets that support the main game data pipeline and gather secondary data;
• Oversee various data projects encompassing different areas of expertise (data development, data analysis...);
• Help junior team members thrive and grow.

What we're looking for:

• Training in data development, business intelligence, software development or related fields;
• At least 6 years of experience in data modeling involving complex SQL transformation on large data sets (including experience with cloud databases, Snowflake preferred);
• The equivalent experience developing Python and SQL-based ETL scripts suitable for production environment and utilizing a pipeline scheduler;
• Experience in implementing data governance best practices;
• Professional experience working with a team in an agile environment;
• Professional experience in project management;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Experience with Snowflake, DBT, and Airflow;
• Experience with cloud services (AWS or others) is an asset;
• Experience with containerization tools (Kubernetes, docker) is an asset.