Lead Data Engineer, Platform & Analytics

Sony Playstation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join the cross-disciplinary Data Platform team. You'll ingest and process high-volume data, work with Game Analytics analysts and analytics engineers, and shape the technical direction, expand its reach, and define the future of analytics for PlayStation games.

You’ll own parts of the pipeline, build integrations with in-game maps and video tooling, and collaborate with DevOps and stakeholders to improve data quality,

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning data pipelines for high-throughput streaming and batch data.
• Proficient in Go or Python with willingness to learn Go.
• Experience building robust, scalable services.
• Ability to demonstrate measurable impact in prior roles.
• Enjoy solving data problems with responsibility for quality, investigations and remediation.
• Experience with AWS data and analytics services (S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Glue).

Responsibilities

• Own parts of our data pipeline and drive improvements to meet technical and business goals.
• Build supporting services for the pipeline, e.g., integrations with in-game maps and video tooling.
• Integrate our data collection platform with BI tools to enable studio self-service.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team, analytics engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Focus on improving data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Support existing tooling with better quality and documentation.
• Share knowledge with colleagues as a technical expert.

Skills

Data pipelines

Go/Python

Cloud services

Observability

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join the cross-disciplinary Data Platform team. You'll ingest and process high-volume data, work with Game Analytics analysts and analytics engineers, and shape the technical direction, expand its reach, and define the future of analytics for PlayStation games.

You’ll own parts of the pipeline, build integrations with in-game maps and video tooling, and collaborate with DevOps and stakeholders to improve data quality,