Senior Data Engineer

Requisition Number: 160388

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer I

External Description:

“Who is EA Capital Games?”

We’re a mobile game studio located in Midtown Sacramento, home to the highly successful title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the most successful Star Wars mobile game ever released, charting as the #1 grossing game in over 35 countries, and one of the Top 40 grossing games in the entire world across Apple and Google.

Collectively, we are a close-knit group of passionate gamers, obsessed with the creation of genre-defining mobile RPGs, and the vibrant live services necessary to support them. Our team culture is friendly, fast-paced, results-focused, and collaborative. We take our work – but not ourselves – very seriously.

While walking the halls of our brand-new 31,000 sqft studio, you’ll hear the cacophony of epic console competitions, lively debates, and the rattle of dice thrown across a game board. Game nights, happy hours, weekend adventures, and a dog-friendly atmosphere are all elements of who we are.

Where you fit in…

Capital Games is looking for a Sr Data Engineer to join our efforts to provide the data that powers our game analysis and reporting. You’ll be part of a data engineering team within Capital Games, working with our data scientists and analysts to architect data pipelines, support machine learning research, and will play a key role in developing and maintaining the ETL solutions necessary to provide the data that powers our game analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead and partner with members of the Analytics Team
• Participates in design and development of Analytics solutions
• Works with other architects, developers and data analysts to review requirements for optimal performance
• Participates in on-going evolution, improvement, and automation of Analytics solutions
• Provides on-going support of data warehouses and marts – perform tuning, add new data and maintain hierarchies
• Participates in testing of all data warehouse changes
• Develop and maintain technical vision and roadmaps based on the key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Lead the development of capabilities in all facets from strategic to tactical implementation and from conception to post deployment
• Ensure smooth ongoing operations of data platform with high availability while making continuous improvements
• Help key users across the entire organization to understand and consume the data sets and platform for enhanced decision making and analytics
• Advance the data architecture and platform and ensure adherence to key architectural tenets and best practices
• Design and implement relational and dimensional models

Skills/Requirements:

• Must have working experience with Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, RedShift, Data Pipeline and Kinesis)
• Extensive experience and understanding of SQL
• Experienced in Redshift schema design, performance optimization, capacity planning
• Experienced in monitoring and optimizing Redshift system performance – A good understanding of Skew, Distribution, Sort Keys, Query plans and workload management.
• Needs to have experience with various data structures, information management concepts in order to determine an appropriate implementation of end user needs.
• Hands on experience with Redshift Copy commands, data types and back-up recovery·   
• Machine Learning experience a plus
• Hands on experience with  Big Data/Hadoop/EMR/Spark
• Working experience in Linux bash/shell/python scripting and automation
• Good written and verbal communication skills

 

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Community / Marketing Title: Senior Data Engineer

Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 19

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.