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Wildlife's Cloud Economics team in São Paulo, Brazil seeks a Data Engineer to build and maintain a data lake, consolidating information from various sources.  Responsibilities include ETL processes, enhancing data discovery, identifying unused data for optimization (sampling, deletion, storage migration), proposing data modeling improvements (table partitioning, migrating to delta tables), and developing a cost allocation data lake for major technology providers.  The ideal candidate is highly analytical, proactive, and results-oriented, contributing directly to company success.  This role demands strong SQL and Python programming skills, AWS experience, and knowledge of Airflow or similar workflow tools.

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 We're looking for a talented and passionate Data Engineer to join Wildlife's Cloud Economics team in São Paulo, Brazil.
The mission of the Cloud Economics team at Wildlife is to have world-class productivity and efficiency across the company by finding and further investigating efficiency opportunities related to the usage and/or provisioning of technology resources.&nbsp;
As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for gathering all the information needed into the data lake; build and maintain such a lake permanently. You will also play a key role in developing the analyses and algorithms that identify the patterns and type of usage of our data that allow us to find opportunities to improve its usage and storage.
We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.&nbsp;
<h2>What you’ll do</h2>
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<li>Be part of a high-output team, directly contributing to company results;</li>
<li>Build the required date lakes and do the corresponding ETL in order to be able to consolidate and query information about multiple data sources;</li>
<li>Enhance our data discovery capabilities;</li>
<li>Identify unused data and propose how to handle it (sampling, deletion, move to colder classes of storage);</li>
<li>Find and propose data modeling optimizations across the data lake to avoid inefficiencies like duplicated data, data normalization, data types, etc. (table partitioning, migrating to delta tables);</li>
<li>Develop an internal cost allocation data lake for our most significant technology providers.</li>
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<h2>What you'll need</h2>
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<li>University degree in courses related to computing such as Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field;</li>
<li>Solid experience working as a data engineer on technically challenging problems;</li>
<li>Proficiency in programming with SQL and Python;</li>
<li>Experience creating data pipelines;</li>
<li>Knowledge and experience with AWS;</li>
<li>Knowledge and experience with Airflow or other workflow management tool is a differential.</li>
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<h2>More about you</h2>
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<li>You are a resourceful person with a go-getter attitude;</li>
<li>You are passionate about the data industry and thirsty for innovation;</li>
<li>You are not afraid to propose and explore new initiatives;</li>
<li>You are a determined and metrics oriented engineer who wants to deliver results;</li>
<li>You have an analytic mindset and focus on ensuring visibility to your clients and peers;</li>
<li>You are passionate about working on and solving problems;</li>
<li>You are a team player. You're willing to help out wherever needed.</li>
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<h2>About Wildlife</h2>
Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Finland and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!
<h2>Equal Opportunity</h2>
Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
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As a Technical Animation Lead at STUDIONext Level Games, you'll be responsible for bringing Nintendo characters to life. You'll work closely with artists, animators, designers, and engineers to ensure the highest quality assets are delivered within the constraints of a real-time development environment. You'll also be responsible for creating robust and efficient control rigs that make animators' lives easier.  Your expertise in rigging and animation will be critical in solving technical challenges and ensuring a seamless workflow.  You'll also be involved in mentoring and developing team members.

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 <div id="resumator-job-description"><h4 style="margin-top:3px;">STUDIO </h4>Next Level Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co. Ltd. We’ve been passionate about video game development for 20 years now, shipping award-winning games for fans across the world and still going strong. Some of our titles include Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!!, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most recently Mario Strikers™: Battle League. At NLG, we believe that a project finds success when we collaborate. Therefore, we place careful consideration to build an environment where everyone feels welcome and has fun in the process of achieving our shared goals.<h4> THE ROLE</h4>We are looking for a Technical Animation Lead who is excited to bring Nintendo characters to life by understanding every detail of NLG’s character production workflow and who is particularly focused on how rigging supports our award-winning animation team. At NLG, a diverse team of craftspeople each contribute their expertise toward a shared goal of lifting Nintendo’s legendary IP to new heights of expressiveness, storytelling, and gameplay.&nbsp; This person will be a bridge builder and can see the whole character production pipeline from start to finish, shaping how we build our characters.&nbsp; This person also understands the Art Director’s goals, the Modelers’ tools, the Animators’ wants, and the Engineers’ runtime performance budget.&nbsp; When a creative problem can be solved by multiple approaches, this person is comfortable weighing the differences and communicating those options and tradeoffs, collaboratively helping the team converge on the best creative outcome. That collaboration is borne out in amazing control rigs which put smiles on our animators’ faces. RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Proactively collaborate with Directors, Character Artists, Animators, Designers and Engineers to help deliver the highest quality assets possible within the constraints of a real-time development environment.<ul><li>Consistently partner with animators to unblock their potential.</li><li>Support artists and animators in developing new techniques to solve character production, pipeline challenges and ensure clean handoffs.</li><li>Collaborate with the stakeholder teams to understand the technical and creative requirements for assets and suggest solutions for technical issues.</li><li>Work with the concept team to ensure downstream considerations are evaluated and discussed early.</li><li>Ensure the outsourcing partners have the resources to be productive and informed.</li><li>Help identify workflow deficiencies and communicate requirements for improvement with the tools team.</li><li>Partner with production to budget, prioritize, assign, track and organize all content deliverables.</li><li>Ensure a constructive, collaborative relationship between the Modeling, Rigging, and Animation departments.</li></ul></li><li>Oversee building of prototype assets where applicable to unblock teams.</li><li>Ensure creation of robust, efficient and intuitive body and facial controls.</li><li>Ensure team growth and mentorship in craft excellence.</li><li>Ensure creation of documentation, onboarding plans, and feedback for the technical production of characters, animation and prop assets.</li><li>Brings teams together through consistent and effective communication.</li><li>Represent studio values through modeling behaviour and approach as a leader.</li></ul>&nbsp;<h4>KEY QUALIFICATIONS:</h4><ul><li>7+ years of experience as a 3D technical artist in video games and film.</li><li>Have worked on at least one major project as a team lead.</li><li>Experience setting up and maintaining 3D art pipelines and workflows.</li><li>Intimate knowledge of Maya and strong understanding of Maya's rigging tools.</li><li>Ability to pioneer practical production-oriented rig systems and workflows.</li><li>Deep knowledge of animator workflows.</li><li>Ability to apply technical skills to solve rigging and animation problems.</li><li>Strong understanding of rigging optimization and budgeting as they pertain to game engine.</li><li>Proficient with modeling and topology adjustments related to character deformations.</li><li>Expertise in Python and/or C++ – specifically as it applies to programming and tool creation in Maya (MEL and API).</li><li>Working knowledge of shaders, specifically as they relate to animation.</li><li>Experience with Project Management (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint) tools.</li><li>Experience with Source Control (Perforce) software.</li></ul><h4> YOU SET YOURSELF ABOVE WITH:</h4><ul><li>Proactive, technical problem solver and a team player.</li><li>Driven by cross-discipline collaborative environments.</li><li>Excel at constructively giving and receiving feedback.</li><li>Experience supporting and maintaining cinematics workflows.</li><li>A strong understanding of the principles of animation.</li><li>Ability to research and apply new approaches to push our character capabilities.</li><li>Ability to create high quality content.</li><li>Stay adaptable to the iterative needs of the team by leaning into curiosity, experimentation and growth mindset.</li></ul> This is a hybrid position, requiring at least three days per week at our Vancouver studio. The hiring range for this position is $ 100,000 &nbsp;– 144,000 CAD annually and is subject to change. The final base salary compensation will be based on factors such as skills, education, and experience. This position is also eligible for the benefits including discretionary performance bonus program, health benefits, and generous time-off. We wish to thank all applicants in advance; however, only those under consideration will be contacted. We are currently only considering applicants who already have work eligibility in Canada and can work on-site in Metro Vancouver.<div><div><div></div></div></div></div>
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