Senior Analytics Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Avalanche Studios Group (ASG) is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to join their data team. This crucial role involves designing, building, and maintaining the company's data architecture. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in data engineering, modeling, visualization, event design, and related best practices. As a bridge between data engineers and scientists, this position ensures data timeliness, usability, and trustworthiness across the company. Key responsibilities include data cleaning and transformation for analytical use, collaborating with data scientists to understand their needs and provide reliable datasets, designing data models for key performance indicators (KPIs) and user history, maintaining comprehensive data documentation, implementing data quality checks and validation processes, monitoring data pipelines for high availability and performance, collaborating with the data engineer, assisting game teams and analysts in designing game event logging and triggers, promoting data excellence through best practices and training, staying abreast of data engineering and analytics trends, and writing efficient, maintainable, and scalable analytics code.
Must have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- Proven experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Architect, or similar role
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with data modeling tools and techniques
- Experience with ETL processes and tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Talend, DBT etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). GCP is a big plus
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
Good to have:
- Passion for gaming and a deep understanding of the gaming industry
5 skills required
Job Details
Avalanche Studios Group (ASG) is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our data team. This role will be responsible for creating, designing and maintaining our data architecture. This role requires a deep understanding of data engineering, data modelling, data visualization, event design and best practices in those areas.
This is a key role in developing our data lake by bridging the gap between our data engineer and our data scientists as well as ensuring that our data is timely, easy to work with and trusted across the company.
What you'll do:
Clean and transform data for analytical use:
- Develop and implement processes to extract, clean, and transform data from various sources to ensure it is ready for analysis.
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand their data needs and provide them with reliable datasets.
- Design and implement data models and aggregated history tables for all major KPI’s and user history.
- Design and implement data models that support business needs and analytics requirements.
Maintain data documentation and definitions:
- Create and maintain comprehensive data documentation, including data dictionaries, schemas, and metadata.
- Ensure that data definitions are consistent and easily accessible to all stakeholders.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and availability.
- Implement automated data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data.
- Monitor data pipelines and systems to ensure high availability and performance alongside our data engineer.
- Help the game teams and analysts in designing the events that our games log as well as their associated triggers
Share best practices across the organization:
- Promote a culture of data excellence by sharing best practices and providing training.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data engineering and analytics and share knowledge with the team.
- Write efficient, maintainable, and scalable analytics code using best practices.
- Conduct code and SQL reviews and provide feedback to ensure high standards of code quality within the team.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Architect, or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with data modelling tools and techniques.
- Experience with ETL processes and tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Talend, DBT etc.).
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). GCP is a big plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Passion for gaming and a deep understanding of the gaming industry is a plus!
Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry (especially women) might not apply to a job if they don’t check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we’re more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what’s on your resume! So don’t stress if you don’t tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.
The Stockholm location
Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It’s a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. It has everything you need to make it your creative base camp.
Our values
At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that’s not exclusive to our games, so we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please register below and provide your CV in English. We review applications continuously. All further studio-related information is provided under a non-disclosure agreement.
What you'll do:
Clean and transform data for analytical use:
- Develop and implement processes to extract, clean, and transform data from various sources to ensure it is ready for analysis.
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand their data needs and provide them with reliable datasets.
- Design and implement data models and aggregated history tables for all major KPI’s and user history.
- Design and implement data models that support business needs and analytics requirements.
Maintain data documentation and definitions:
- Create and maintain comprehensive data documentation, including data dictionaries, schemas, and metadata.
- Ensure that data definitions are consistent and easily accessible to all stakeholders.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and availability.
- Implement automated data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data.
- Monitor data pipelines and systems to ensure high availability and performance alongside our data engineer.
- Help the game teams and analysts in designing the events that our games log as well as their associated triggers
Share best practices across the organization:
- Promote a culture of data excellence by sharing best practices and providing training.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data engineering and analytics and share knowledge with the team.
- Write efficient, maintainable, and scalable analytics code using best practices.
- Conduct code and SQL reviews and provide feedback to ensure high standards of code quality within the team.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Architect, or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with data modelling tools and techniques.
- Experience with ETL processes and tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Talend, DBT etc.).
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). GCP is a big plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Passion for gaming and a deep understanding of the gaming industry is a plus!
Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry (especially women) might not apply to a job if they don’t check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we’re more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what’s on your resume! So don’t stress if you don’t tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.
The Stockholm location
Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It’s a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. It has everything you need to make it your creative base camp.
Our values
At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that’s not exclusive to our games, so we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please register below and provide your CV in English. We review applications continuously. All further studio-related information is provided under a non-disclosure agreement.
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About The Company
Avalanche Studios Group is a leading interactive entertainment company, offering a rich portfolio of games from its divisions Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction, including the Just Cause franchise, Rage 2, theHunter: Call of the Wild and Generation Zero.
Avalanche Studios Group is committed to being a truly inclusive and sustainable workplace that creates innovative games through the power of our people’s creativity. All of Avalanche Studios Group games are developed using the proprietary Apex engine, enabling vast open worlds with endless creative possibilities.
Learn more at www.avalanchestudios.com/
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