Data Engineer

PlayStation; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PlayStation is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join their growing ICDS Data Engineering team in London. This position focuses on designing and maintaining data processing platforms, working collaboratively in a dynamic environment, and applying extensive experience with tools like Databricks and AWS. The role offers competitive salary, training opportunities, and a chance to contribute to a leading brand in the entertainment industry.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus opportunity

Excellent in-house training opportunities

BUPA Private Medical Insurance

Dental Scheme

25 days holiday per year plus national holidays and wellness breaks

Free eye test and glasses voucher

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Databricks, Spark, Scala, PySpark, Python.
• 3+ years of experience with data and ETL programming (Ab Initio).
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB).

Responsibilities

• Engineer data pipelines and frameworks for ICDS DE teams.
• Work proactively to address project requirements and risks.
• Develop documentation and departmental technical procedures.

Skills

Data processing

Communication

Business requirements analysis

Agile

Job description

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Our Team

The ICDS Data Engineering team has grown rapidly over recent years in response to an increasing need for the business to leverage data to inform and shape key decisions, and to identify new opportunities. Currently there are approximately 120 staff within the ICDS DE team, split between London and California, made up of high-quality data professionals covering architecture and platform support, data processing and technical program management.

Due to team expansion ICDS DE are looking to recruit talented, highly driven individuals who have excelled in previous roles and are looking for a new challenge in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

ICDS delivers data that powers Analytics, Data sciences, Marketing, ML and multiple other teams across the companies and offices that make up the PlayStation business: high quality, valuable to the user, accessible, and continuously improving.

About The Role

We are looking for a Data engineer to be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the data processing platform. They will be required to fit into a highly skilled team and work with limited supervision, under their own initiative.

Based in our London offices, the team provides data services for various global business units associated with Sony PlayStation.

Responsibilities

• Engineer data pipelines, frameworks and provide automated solutions for ICDS DE teams
• Work proactively to address project requirements, and articulate issues, challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risk
• System monitoring and alerting, dashboards, charts/reports and alerts delivery
• Ensure code is fully scalable, maintainable, and performant
• Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs
• Work with Project Managers and TPM to ensure the timely delivery of project deliverables that meet requirements
• Develop new documentation, departmental technical procedures and user guides

Skills Required (essential):

• Demonstrable experience in developing large-scale data processing platforms
• Extensive experience throughout the software development lifecycle
• Strong communication skillsets. It is vital that the successful candidate can explain complex technical issues in non-technical terms to business stakeholders
• Knowledge and experiences of SDLC methodologies e.g. Agile, Waterfall
• Skilled in business requirements analysis with ability to translate business information into technical specifications

Skills Required (desirable):

• Knowledge of streaming services – Flink, Kafka
• Knowledge of Dimensional Modelling
• Knowledge of No Sql dbs (dynamo db, Cassandra)
• Knowledge of node based architecture, graph databases and languages – Neptune, Neo4j, Gremlin, Cypher

Experience

• 5+ years of experience with Databricks, Spark, Scala,PySpark, Python
• 5+ years of experience in SQL and database technologies like Snowflake or equivalent.
• 3+ year of experience with data and ETL programming (Ab Initio)
• 3+ years of experience with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Glue etc)
• Experience in designing and architecting medium to complex systems, well versed with design standards, patterns & frameworks
• General knowledge in Linux, Unix Administration and Windows Administration
• Experience with automation, configuration management, orchestration, enterprise schedulers

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Excellent in-house training opportunities
• BUPA Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year plus national holidays and wellness breaks
• Free eye test and glasses voucher
• Cycle to work scheme

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.