Requisition Number: 170802

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer I

External Description:

Lead Data Engineer - ATeam

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

Location: Vancouver or remote 

The Challenge Ahead

How will Big Data push the boundaries of animation realism and bring our characters to life as never before seen in games? We are looking for a passionate Lead Data Engineer to help us find out.

 

Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment, with a high degree of autonomy and impact. With experience architecting large-scale, complex, cloud-native systems you love tackling tough cutting-edge problems and taking ownership. In this role you will design, build, and deploy, brand new pipelines and frameworks that store, index, analyze, and serve huge amounts of data to be used by machine learning researchers and artists across EA. 

Team Overview:

We are a cross-functional, applied R&D team, strategically positioned in EA to drive and disrupt the future of character animation technology. We are a self-motivated, collaborative team, empowered to constantly explore and leverage the latest innovations across the fields of animation, rigging, physics, and machine learning. Our technology has been used to create next-generation gameplay realism across EA titles such as FIFA, Madden, NHL, UFC, Battlefield, and many others.

 

Join us in helping shape the future of how games are made!

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build and maintain robust and scalable animation data ingestion and transformation pipelines
• Work with DevOps team to define data representation and storage solutions for raw and processed animation data, including automated and user-driven annotations
• Design, build and maintain robust and scalable communication frameworks between services that consume and manipulate animation data
• Work with ML engineers to support automation, scaling and testing of ML processes and models
• Assess and recommend available and new big data technologies
• Suggest strategies to improve our data quality and development process
• Design dataflow and processes to minimize compute and storage cost
• Ability to think and solve complex data engineering problems in maintainable and scalable fashion

Required Technical Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience
• Experience in data warehousing or ETL experience developing enterprise data workflows
• Solid python knowledge, including numpy, pandas, dask
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with Docker
• Database design and development experience with SQL or NoSQL technologies
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience with source control and CI/CD

Desirable Skills and Expertise:

• Some familiarity with machine learning, and statistical approaches to data analysis
• Web full stack development technologies
• Passionate about gaming and the industry

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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: 65

Can this position be remote?: 1

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.