Principal Software Engineer

Zynga; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 119,140 - 169,140; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid holidays and vacation

Wellbeing programs for mental health

Job summary

Zynga is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the FinOps team in Austin, Texas, focusing on data models and visualizations for effective decision-making. Responsibilities include leading financial analysis and designing data visualizations collaboratively with the engineering team. Candidates should have a B.S. in a quantitative field, 8+ years of experience with SQL and data tools, and proficiency in Python. Zynga offers a competitive salary ranging from $119,140 to $169,140 annually, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with SQL and data warehouses.
• Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality.
• Comfort interacting with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial analysis activities regarding technology spend.
• Develop data ingestion and normalization for dashboards.
• Engage with customers to design user-facing data visualizations.

Skills

Proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling

SQL

Data visualization tools (Tableau or similar)

Monitoring rules for validating data quality

Stakeholder communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field

Tools

Tableau

AWS

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Position Overview

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech! Do you love developing data models and visualizations to help teams make strategic decisions? This analyst role is a key figure in our cost transparency efforts on the FinOps team, delivering critical insights into service costs. This position also provides dashboards, data visualizations, and analyses for areas that make our organization effective at serving our internal customers, allowing all teams to make better decisions.

What You'll Do

• Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
• Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team's software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user-facing data visualizations
• Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
• Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
• Interact with members of Finance and the C-suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests

What You Bring

• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
• Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
• Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience's needs
• Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
• Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with FinOps practices
• Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc.
• Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog

What We Offer You

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $119,140 and $169,140 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program. Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.

Equal Opportunity Employer & Accommodation Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [e-mail] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be a scam or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga's in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).