Hybrid Data Platform Engineer for Games

Jackalope Digital LLC; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension via Salary Sacrifice

Optional Private Medical, Dental, and

Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays and  

Job summary

Terminal Velocity, part of the Rocket Science Group, is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and improve reliable data systems for partners and internal teams. You’ll focus on data pipelines, data modelling, data quality, and observability, with a willingness to explore adjacent areas such as backend services or SDK development.

In this hybrid Cardiff role, you will speak directly with stakeholders, break down work, estimate delivery, and make pragmatic technical trade-offs while

Qualifications

• Prior games industry experience is useful, but not required.
• Strong data engineering experience and good engineering judgement.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable and resilient data solutions for games and related platforms.
• You may work on telemetry pipelines, analytics platforms, data warehouse and lakehouse design, or backend integrations.
• Speak with stakeholders, clarify requirements, and estimate/deliver with pragmatic trade-offs.
• Collaborate across disciplines and learn adjacent areas when needed.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data modelling

Data quality

Observability

Adaptability

Stakeholder communication

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

SQL

C#

Golang

Java

TypeScript

Rust

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

Databricks

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Airflow

dbt

AWS Glue

Step Functions

Spark

Hadoop

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Job description

Terminal Velocity, part of the Rocket Science Group, is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and improve reliable data systems for partners and internal teams. You’ll focus on data pipelines, data modelling, data quality, and observability, with a willingness to explore adjacent areas such as backend services or SDK development.

In this hybrid Cardiff role, you will speak directly with stakeholders, break down work, estimate delivery, and make pragmatic technical trade-offs while