Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time Player Data Pipelines

PlayStation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation business. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, curated data products, and governance across domains including commerce, hardware, games, and accounts.

You will mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure trusted data for analytics, planning and AI use cases, while upholding privacy

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience.
• Experience designing data pipelines and transformations using modern ETL/ELT tools such as dbt or Ab Initio.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain robust batch and near-real-time data pipelines across Player data systems.
• Develop reusable data models and data products translating business logic into reliable engineering solutions.
• Lead technical design, evaluate trade-offs and ensure scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Data modelling

Data governance

Data security

CI/CD

Observability

AI tooling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent practical experience

Tools

dbt

Ab Initio

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Git

Databricks

AWS

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable data solutions powering decision-making across the PlayStation business. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, curated data products, and governance across domains including commerce, hardware, games, and accounts.

You will mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure trusted data for analytics, planning and AI use cases, while upholding privacy