Data Engineer II: Mobile Game Analytics Backbone

Mattel EMEA; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total pay

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Mattel is seeking a Data Engineer II to own the analytics backbone for its mobile free-to-play portfolio. You will design and operate pipelines, data models, and quality systems turning telemetry into analyst-ready datasets for retention, monetization, and engagement insights across titles.

You’ll migrate legacy Airflow pipelines to a partner-managed ETL platform, build new capabilities, and ensure data quality and observability across studios and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years shipping production data pipelines as a Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer
• Expert SQL and strong Python, with hands-on BigQuery and Airflow/Cloud Composer
• Expertise in medallion architecture, dimensional modeling and data warehouse optimization
• Mobile F2P analytics experience with event telemetry and lifecycle metrics
• Hands-on knowledge of GCP-native tooling
• Track record of building data quality and observability systems
• Strong production engineering practices: version control, CI/CD, environment management
• Experience operating within a partner-managed ETL framework and coordinating across teams
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with high ownership
• Working knowledge of privacy and compliance fundamentals
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS or related

Responsibilities

• Run and optimize the live data ETL framework for telemetry ingestion and transformation
• Maintain silver/gold transformation layers in BigQuery; optimize performance and costs
• Design data marts as data products to power dashboards and enable self-serve analytics
• Migrate legacy Airflow pipelines to partner platform without disrupting live reporting
• Define events, properties, and data contracts with studios and analysts
• Build data quality and observability systems to reduce time-to-detect and recover
• Contribute to team engineering practices, code reviews, and documentation

Skills

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Airflow / Cloud Composer

Data pipelines

Medallion architecture

Dimensional modeling

GCP tooling

Data quality

Observability

CI/CD

Privacy & compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

dbt

Looker/Tableau

Job description

Mattel is seeking a Data Engineer II to own the analytics backbone for its mobile free-to-play portfolio. You will design and operate pipelines, data models, and quality systems turning telemetry into analyst-ready datasets for retention, monetization, and engagement insights across titles.

You’ll migrate legacy Airflow pipelines to a partner-managed ETL platform, build new capabilities, and ensure data quality and observability across studios and analytics teams.