Senior Data Engineer, PlayStation
+ Bonus opportunity
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
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Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus opportunity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrable experience in leading and developing large-scale data processing platforms
- Extensive experience throughout the software development lifecycle
- Strong communication skillsets. It is vital that the successful candidate can explain complex technical issues in non-technical terms to business stakeholders
- Demonstrates deep knowledge and hands-on experience in cutting-edge data technologies, with a proactive approach to driving innovation and keeping teams informed of industry advancements
- Skilled in business requirements analysis with ability to translate business information into technical specifications
- 8+ years of experience with Databricks product suite, Spark, Scala, PySpark, Python
- 8+ years of experience in SQL and database technologies like Snowflake or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Glue etc)
- 5+ year of experience in Ab Initio, covering multiple components of the product suite
- Proven expertise in designing and architecting sophisticated data systems, with deep knowledge of design principles, architectural patterns, frameworks, and adherence to industry best practices and emerging trends
- Experience with automation, configuration management, orchestration, enterprise schedulers
Desirable
- Knowledge of streaming services – Flink, Kafka
- Familiarity of Dimensional Modelling concepts
- Knowledge of node based architecture, graph databases and languages – Neptune, Neo4j, Gremlin, Cypher
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data engineer to be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the data processing platform.
- They will be required to fit into a highly skilled team and work with limited supervision, under their own initiative
- Based in our London offices, the team provides data services for various global business units associated with Sony PlayStation
- Engineer and implement advanced data products, frameworks, and pipelines, focusing on automation and innovation
- Take on technical ownership of a work stream, be the subject matter expert and work proactively to address project requirements, and articulate issues, challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risk
- System monitoring and alerting, dashboards, charts/reports and alerts delivery
- Performance tuning of code and review of peer contributions to validate conformance with best practices and the adoption of emerging development trends
- Mentoring of more junior members of the team
- Coordinate and support the verification of program logic by managing test data preparation and ensuring thorough testing and debugging activities
- Collaborate with Project Managers and TPMs to ensure project deliverables are completed on schedule and align fully with defined requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
Steph
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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