Senior Data Engineer - AI-Ready Data Pipelines

Sony; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across PlayStation businesses. You will own end‑to‑end data pipelines, models and products, partnering with engineering, product and business teams to raise engineering standards.

This senior IC role focuses on trusted, governed data foundations, batch and streaming processing, and AI-ready data assets while ensuring security,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience with production data solutions.
• Experience designing data pipelines using ETL/ELT tools like dbt or Ab Initio.
• Solid experience with Snowflake data warehouses and data modeling.
• Experience with orchestration, Kubernetes, and CI/CD processes.
• Understanding of data security, governance and regulatory considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and maintain Player data solutions.
• Build robust batch and near-real-time data pipelines across data systems and cloud environments.
• Develop reusable data models and data products from complex business logic.
• Lead technical design, evaluate trade-offs and ensure scalable, secure solutions.
• Own quality, reliability and operations across the lifecycle.
• Implement testing, validation, lineage, observability and runbooks.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to coding standards and practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and data ownership.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Databricks

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Git CI/CD

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across PlayStation businesses. You will own end‑to‑end data pipelines, models and products, partnering with engineering, product and business teams to raise engineering standards.

This senior IC role focuses on trusted, governed data foundations, batch and streaming processing, and AI-ready data assets while ensuring security,