Senior Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid/Remote, Scale Pipelines

sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Learning & development

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will ingest and process high-volume data, collaborating with Game Analytics analysts and engineers to turn data into actionable insights across development and post-launch.

You will scale the platform, define technical direction, and build capabilities for studio self-service with AWS data services and robust data pipelines. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning Data Pipelines for high-throughput streaming and batch data.
• Proficient in Go or Python with willingness to learn Go.
• Experience building robust, scalable, and resilient services.
• Able to demonstrate measurable impact in current/previous roles.
• Enjoy solving data problems and take responsibility for quality, investigations and remediation.
• Experience with cloud data services (AWS: S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena, AWS Glue).

Responsibilities

• Own parts of our pipeline and drive improvements toward our technical and business goals.
• Build supporting services for our pipeline, e.g., integrations with in-game maps and video tooling.
• Integrate our data collection platform and BI tools to enable studio self-service.
• Work closely with the DevOps team, analytics engineers, and stakeholders across the studio business group.
• Focus on improving data quality, lineage and observability.
• Support existing tooling, improve quality and documentation.
• Be a technical expert and share knowledge with colleagues.

Skills

Data pipelines

Go or Python

Scalable services

Data quality observability

AWS data services

Tools

Looker

Tableau

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join the Data Platform team. You will ingest and process high-volume data, collaborating with Game Analytics analysts and engineers to turn data into actionable insights across development and post-launch.

You will scale the platform, define technical direction, and build capabilities for studio self-service with AWS data services and robust data pipelines. Hybrid work arrangement offered.