Senior Data Engineer — AI-Ready Data Pipelines

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

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate trusted, scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation ecosystem. You will own the end-to-end data pipelines, partner with engineering and product teams, and drive data governance and AI-ready foundations.

You will mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and shape data models for multiple business domains, including commerce, hardware, games, products and accounts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production data solutions.
• Experience designing data pipelines and transformations using modern ETL/ELT tools and frameworks, such as dbt, Ab Initio or equivalent technologies.
• Solid experience with cloud data platforms and warehouses, particularly Snowflake; knowledge of data modelling, dimensional design and data product principles.
• Experience with orchestration, Kubernetes, Git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and troubleshooting production data services.
• Understanding of data security, access management, data quality, governance and regulatory considerations in enterprise environments.
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, and AI-driven development tools to accelerate engineering productivity and improve code quality.
• Familiarity with building or integrating AI agents into data engineering workflows would be a strong plus.
• Ability to influence technical decisions, mentor peers and communicate effectively with engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain robust batch and near-real-time data pipelines across Player data systems, APIs, Snowflake and cloud data environments.
• Develop reusable data models and domain-aligned data products, translating complex business logic into reliable engineering solutions.
• Lead technical design for assigned initiatives, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and cost-effective.
• Own solutions throughout the engineering lifecycle, from requirements and design through deployment, monitoring, incident resolution and continuous improvement.
• Implement automated testing, data validation, reconciliation, lineage, observability, alerting and operational runbooks.
• Apply engineering practices including version control, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and appropriate change controls; improve performance and platform efficiency.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews and contribute to shared patterns, coding standards and communities of practice.
• Partner with TPMs, business stakeholders, architects, security, governance, analytics and platform teams to clarify requirements, dependencies and data ownership.
• Enable trusted data for analytics, planning, automation and AI use cases while respecting privacy, security and access controls.

Skills

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Ab Initio

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate trusted, scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation ecosystem. You will own the end-to-end data pipelines, partner with engineering and product teams, and drive data governance and AI-ready foundations.

You will mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and shape data models for multiple business domains, including commerce, hardware, games, products and accounts.