Senior Data Engineer

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

About this Position:  

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to become part of an Enterprise Data Engineering organization that provides corporate data and analytics services.  The candidate will be joining the San Diego-based Data Engineering team and working on implementing leading-edge analytic applications using tools such as Domo, Tableau, Snowflake, & Ab Initio. They will be expected to work closely with the customers to identify solutions and opportunities to support business decision-making, generate forward-looking insights, and enhance business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable data analytics systems (pipeline, warehouse, API)
• Build and support data pipelines to extract and transform data for enterprise analytics.
• Create data structures and data storage systems for optimal querying – Snowflake, Databricks, Postgres, MySQL.
• Assist the data analysts in creating actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics
• Implement process improvements: monitoring, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and recommending architectures.
• Provide automated data validation processes

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics or related
• 10+ professional experience working in the field of data
• 5+ years of experience working extensively with databases & warehouses
  • Experience with Snowflake preferred
• 5+ years of experience developing data pipelines (ETL/ELT)
• Strong with SQL and experience with at least one programming language (Python, Java)
• Experience with calling RESTful API services & Big Data technologies in AWS
• Data modeling skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work as an Agile team member with minimal supervision
• Proactive, Self-Starter who is willing to get their hands dirty to get tasks completed
• Data Science and AI/ML knowledge or experience helpful

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

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