Data Engineer

Job Summary:

Square Enix has an internal cloud-based platform (SGV), which provides our Analytics & Insight team and other groups across the business with a single data lake pooling game telemetry, sales information, marketing data, web analytics and other information.

Duties include:

• Building, optimising and enhancing data acquisition pipelines
• Working with client teams to ensure robust capture of high-quality data
• Supporting data analysts and other users of the data via with technical assistance

This position requires a driven and talented person that can help the team progress

Requirements

Key Deliverables:

• Build and test new functionality for existing pipelines alongside expanding the scope of data sources supported by the platform.
• Ensure the Data Engineering team deliver on requests from client teams to agreed specification and timelines.

• Ensure open and regular communication with other stakeholders as to the status of their projects.

• Work to ensure Data Engineering team is capable to deliver against responsibilities.

• Ensure data is robust and of high quality.

• Provide data access and querying support to users both within the team and across the business.

• Have a good understanding of the scope, potential and limitations of the datasets maintained by the Data Engineering team, remaining alert to any opportunity to further employ our data to benefit the business.

• Evangelise the use of customer data to better understand our customers across the organisation.

• To always represent the team professionally – both internally and externally

Key Stakeholders:

Senior Director Digital Channels, Director of Analytics & Insight, Data Protection Officer

Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

• Programming experience in Java (11 preferable) and Python
  
• Experience with testing frameworks, JUnit, Mockito, etc.
• Comfortable familiarity working with large data sets
• Good SQL skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience writing batch ETLs on large datasets using various sources (e.g. SQL Servers, REST APIs, JSON files)
• Experience with build tools, such as gradle, maven, SBT
• Familiarity with OSX or Linux environment (shell scripting, basic system administration etc).
• Experience using source control/collaboration tools such as GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab.
• Familiarity with collaboration and communication tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack etc.

Desirable:

• BSc or higher level degree in Computer Science, STEM subject or a similar field of study
  
• Experience with cloud-based engineering platforms, e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure
• Experience with Apache Beam
• Experience with streaming data
• Experience with DAG based workflow management systems, ideally AirFlow

Competencies, Skills & Attributes

Essential:

• Ability to quickly learn and employ new technologies and methodologies.
  
• Strong documentation skills.
• Ability to articulate and present ideas and information with ease and clarity.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of team.

Other:

• Interest in technology.
  
• Ambition to drive self-development.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Follower of industry trends and developments.

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Covid-19 remote working

Square Enix are committed to keeping our employees safe. We are listening closely to government guidelines, and this role will be based remotely until the company sees fit to return to the office. This role will be based in our Blackfriars Studio in London, upon return.