Associate Principal Analytics Engineer

Rockstar Games is seeking an Associate Principal Analytics Engineer to join their Analytics team in their NYC headquarters. This role involves partnering with Data Scientists and business stakeholders to understand analytical needs and translate them into robust data infrastructure and workflows. The Associate Principal Analytics Engineer will collaborate with the Data Engineering team to design data models and data pipelines, ensuring high performance and reliability of data systems.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Data Scientists and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering team to design data models and data pipelines.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Monitor performance and optimize data systems.
• Collaborate with the Data Integrity team to build a Data Quality Framework.
• Perform timely Root Cause Analysis to troubleshoot data-related issues.
• Provide thought leadership and collaborate with other team members to continue to scale our architecture.
• Contribute to the establishment of best practices.
• Develop and support CI/CD processes.
• Define and implement monitoring and alerting policies for data solutions.

Requirements:

• 6+ years minimum of experience in analytics engineering or data engineering.
• Proven track record in building, monitoring, and optimizing large-scale data systems and analytics infrastructure.
• Experience working in Databricks & Azure environment (or other cloud equivalents).
• Experience working with pipeline scheduling tools such as Airflow & Astronomer.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Terraform, Github, Octopus.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an engineering or technical field.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Python & 3+ years of hands-on experience in PySpark.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in using advanced SQL queries.
• Proven ability to reconcile technical and business perspectives.
• Ability to push the frontier of technology and freely pursue better alternatives.
• Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
• Ability to utilize problem solving skills in a fast-paced environment.

The role offers:

• Opportunity to work on large-scale creative projects.
• Inclusive, highly-motivated environment.
• Collaboration with talented people in the industry.