Senior Data Engineer - Player Data & AI Pipelines

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Japan); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate trusted, scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation ecosystem. You will build reusable data pipelines across products and services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with teams to raise engineering standards while ensuring privacy and security.

This hands-on senior role requires strong SQL and Python, Snowflake, and cloud data experience with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience.
• Experience designing data pipelines with ETL/ELT tools like dbt or Ab Initio.
• Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse expertise.
• Experience with orchestration, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Knowledge of data security, governance and privacy in enterprises.
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants to accelerate development.
• Familiarity with AI agents in data workflows is a plus.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and maintain Player data solutions.
• Build robust batch and near-real-time data pipelines across systems, APIs, Snowflake Db and cloud data environments.
• Develop reusable, well-documented 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 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.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, technical debt and cross-team dependencies; communicate progress, options and recommendations clearly.
• Enable trusted data for analytics, planning, automation and AI use cases while respecting privacy, security and access controls.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT design

Python

SQL

Data governance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

dbt

Ab Initio

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Git CI/CD

PySpark/Databricks

AWS

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in London is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate trusted, scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation ecosystem. You will build reusable data pipelines across products and services, mentor engineers, and collaborate with teams to raise engineering standards while ensuring privacy and security.

This hands-on senior role requires strong SQL and Python, Snowflake, and cloud data experience with