Hybrid Data Platform Engineer for Games (Cardiff)

Rocket Science Group; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension via Salary Sacrifice

Annual Leave and holidays

Professional Development

Work-Life Balance

Family-friendly leave

Office perks and socials

Job summary

Rocket Science Group is hiring a Data Platform Engineer in Cardiff, offering a hybrid mix of in-office and home-based work. You will build scalable data solutions for games, focusing on telemetry, analytics, and data pipelines across multiple platforms.

We value experience in data modelling, data quality, observability, and the ability to learn quickly while collaborating with backend, infra, and SDK teams as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating reliable data platforms and pipelines.
• Ability to model, validate, and ensure data quality and observability.
• Comfort speaking with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable data solutions for games and related platforms.
• Develop telemetry pipelines, analytics, data warehouses/lakehouses, and reporting foundations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and plan delivery.

Skills

Data engineering

Data modelling

Observability

Data quality

Willingness to learn

Stakeholder communication

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Airflow

dbt

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Rocket Science Group is hiring a Data Platform Engineer in Cardiff, offering a hybrid mix of in-office and home-based work. You will build scalable data solutions for games, focusing on telemetry, analytics, and data pipelines across multiple platforms.

We value experience in data modelling, data quality, observability, and the ability to learn quickly while collaborating with backend, infra, and SDK teams as needed.