Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION – Data Engineer
We are looking for a talented, self-motivated Data Engineer with broad technical skills to dive deep into large amounts of data and the desire to influence key decisions with data-driven analysis and insights. As a part of Analytics Solutions group you will take the lead in supporting the data and information needs of Full Circle, the team creating our next entry in the Skate franchise. You'll assist the game team in implementing data strategies for in-game telemetry, developing complex ETL pipelines and supporting dashboards that promote deeper understanding of our games.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing and establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses and possess excellent problem-solving ability dealing with huge volumes of game data. The position will also stay apprised of latest trends and research on all aspects of data engineering and analytics. You will work closely with game developers, designers, studio leaders and analysts to understand their data requirements and build a robust engineering solution, enabling team derive insights and take data driven decisions.
Responsibilities:
• As a Data Engineer you will be involved in the entire development life cycle from brainstorming new ideas to communicating with stakeholders to implementing and testing elegant solutions to derive data insights.
• You will gather requirements, model, design solutions, develop technical specs and documentation to support reporting and exploratory analysis.
• Work with analysts and developers to build and support robust and scalable data pipelines.
• Build dashboards and reports to provide insights into EA's game development pipeline and live services platform.
• Develop and support Analytical processes including backfills, ETL monitoring, query testing, dashboard creation, maintenance, and reports generation.
• You will be responsible to support production code to produce comprehensive and accurate data artifacts.
• You will oversee the process of adoption of new technologies and applications we use to collect, integrate, analyze, and deliver relevant analytical solutions.
• You will guide communications between our users and studio engineers to provide scalable end-to-end solutions.
• You will promote strategies to improve our data modeling, quality, and architecture.
• You will work with big data solutions, data modeling, understand the ETL pipelines and dashboard tools.
• Build close relationships with business stakeholders and act as a liaison between business users, game engineers and other involved parties to deliver scalable end-to-end solutions.
• Ability to work with changing priorities, multi-tasking, scope adjustments and supporting ad-hoc requests to meet urgent needs.
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert in data domain to drive conversations to decisions and tackle time sensitive asks.
Qualifications:
• 4+ years relevant industry experience in data engineering role
• Proficiency in writing SQL queries and knowledge of cloud-based databases like BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift or other big data solutions.
• Experience in data modeling, ETL processes, big data, and data warehousing.
• Experience with at least one of the programming languages like Python or Java and develop manual and automated test cases.
• Experience with business intelligence tools like Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools.
• Experience working with unstructured and raw datasets.
• Experience in the physical and logical design of database architecture for relational databases, data warehouses and data lakes.
• Knowledge of latest data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Developing APIs and integrating with 3rd party APIs
• Summarize technical details to non-technical audience.
• Comfortable working with a multi-functional team, both locally and remote, understanding the perspectives of each partner.
• Experience working in an agile development environment and familiar with Process Management tools such as JIRA, Target process, Trello or similar.
• Good communication to interact with business users and technical teams.
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