Senior Data Engineer, Player Data & AI-Ready Pipelines

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

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across Sony Interactive Entertainment. You will build reusable data pipelines, models and data products for commerce, hardware, games and accounts, while mentoring peers and driving engineering best practices.

This hands-on role requires end-to-end ownership from design through deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement, ensuring trustworthy,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience.
• Experience designing data pipelines and transformations using modern ETL/ELT tools and frameworks like dbt or equivalent.
• Cloud data platforms knowledge, esp. Snowflake, and data modelling concepts.
• Understanding of data security, governance and regulatory considerations in enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI coding assistants and AI-driven development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and maintain Player data pipelines and data models.
• Lead technical design for initiatives, evaluate trade-offs and ensure scalable solutions.
• Own solutions through the engineering lifecycle including deployment, monitoring and incident response.
• Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and set patterns and standards.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Data governance

AI tooling

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across Sony Interactive Entertainment. You will build reusable data pipelines, models and data products for commerce, hardware, games and accounts, while mentoring peers and driving engineering best practices.

This hands-on role requires end-to-end ownership from design through deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement, ensuring trustworthy,