Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

PlayStation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their ICDS Data Engineering team. This role is based in London and focuses on the design, development, and maintenance of the data processing platform. The Senior Data Engineer will work with a highly skilled team, taking ownership of technical work streams and proactively addressing project requirements.

The role involves engineering and implementing advanced data products, frameworks, and pipelines, with a focus on automation and innovation. The successful candidate will be responsible for system monitoring, performance tuning, and mentoring junior team members. Collaboration with Project Managers and TPMs is essential to ensure project deliverables are completed on schedule and align with defined requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer and implement advanced data products, frameworks, and pipelines, focusing on automation and innovation
• Take on technical ownership of a work stream, be the subject matter expert and work proactively to address project requirements, and articulate issues, challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risk
• System monitoring and alerting, dashboards, charts/reports and alerts delivery
• Performance tuning of code and review of peer contributions to validate conformance with best practices and the adoption of emerging development trends
• Mentoring of more junior members of the team
• Coordinate and support the verification of program logic by managing test data preparation and ensuring thorough testing and debugging activities
• Collaborate with Project Managers and TPMs to ensure project deliverables are completed on schedule and align fully with defined requirements

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience with Databricks product suite, Spark, Scala, PySpark, Python
• 8+ years of experience in SQL and database technologies like Snowflake or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Glue etc)
• 5+ year of experience in Ab Initio, covering multiple components of the product suite
• Demonstrable experience in leading and developing large-scale data processing platforms
• Strong communication skillsets
• Demonstrates deep knowledge and hands-on experience in cutting-edge data technologies
• Skilled in business requirements analysis with ability to translate business information into technical specifications

PlayStation offers:

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Excellent in-house training opportunities
• BUPA Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year plus national holidays and wellness breaks
• Free eye test and glasses voucher
• Cycle to work scheme