Data Analytics Engineer

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Data Analytics Engineer

Los Angeles, CA

The Partners Data Engineering team (LA) provides data pipe, warehousing and analytics solutions for the PlayStation Partners Platform - a vital collection of applications and services used by our partners (content creators, game developers and publishers) worldwide to create and publish games and content on PlayStation.

Our mission is to deliver timely, scalable and high quality data and insights to empower our business to make data-driven decisions, drive operational efficiencies and identify revenue opportunities.

As a Data Analytics Engineer you will empower business decision-making through insights and analytics, and also be a great teammate to our descriptive, predictive, causal analysis, and prescriptive strategy to our partners.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business, product and engineering teams in crafting solutions that drive business value to our team and our customers.
• Translate business requirements into visualizations and reports that provide practical insights for our collaborators.
• Anchor our strategic position in predictive, causal analysis, and prescriptive solutions through creation of new data features and experimentation.
• Write code to our data pipelines in existing and new solutions to provide continuous value in data analytics.
• Provide ongoing support for our users who use our solutions for their decision-making.
• Drive ideas and projects by communicating the strategic value for the organization to leadership.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of proven experience on crafting insights and data visualizations through dashboards or automated reports.
• Experience converting ambiguous business needs to highly scalable data models and datasets.
• Ability to perform analysis over large and complex datasets and communicate findings to collaborators.
• Proven data modeling skills - must have demonstrable experience designing models for data warehousing and analytics use-cases (e.g. from operational data store to semantic models)
• Expert SQL skills to create views and power dashboards for analysis.
• Python, shell scripting experience for automation, data manipulation and creation of applications.
• Previous experience with AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Strong communication skills - you will be able to tailor your communication to technical and less technical audiences alike

Desired:

• Experience with BI tools such as Domo, Tableau, or similar.
• Experience with statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Experience with data science implementation on AWS Sagemaker Pipelines or MLOps.
• Prior experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Gamer or experience in the gaming industry is a plus.

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