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Staff Data Engineer-Data Platform & Engineering

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

This is a Data Engineer with technical leadership responsibilities in the Data Platform Engineering group, responsible for development of PlayStation Network’s Data Platform, and Analytics solutions. We are looking for a seasoned Data Engineer with a strong background in AWS, software development, and automation skills to build best-in-class scalable, highly available data warehouse solutions to enable our fast-growing business through data and insights.

Data Platform is essential and core component in Sony PlayStation Network and supports dramatic customer growth on the global, fast growing SIE customer base, world-class PlayStation consoles, hand-held devices, PlayStation TV, and network entertainment services such as PlayStation Now and PlayStation Vue

The individual's primary responsibilities include:

• Develop Data Warehouse and Analytics solutions that deliver business value to our internal business units.
• ETL development
• Contribute to data modeling, and warehouse solution design and support the solutions.
• Mentors and inspires team of data, software, quality and operations engineers to effectively deliver data warehouse technology stack.
• Collaborate across business units, product teams and architecture community to influence data platform strategy and road-map.
• Research new and emerging technologies to realize potential value, business fit and operations and cost efficiencies.

Required:

• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience (Master’s preferred)
• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions.
• Extensive experience in ETL using Informatica Power Center and business intelligence.
• Extensive experience with SQL, PLSQL. Ability to write complex, highly performing SQL queries and optimize performance of existing queries.
• Very knowledgeable in Database concepts.
• Crisp knowledge on dead locks, server blocking and ability to write queries to avoid these scenarios.
• Sound knowledge and working experience in data warehousing systems for large enterprises, preferably with near real time transactional data, using demonstrably standard data warehousing design techniques.
• Experience and hands on with distributed data storage and large-data processing using Spark or Scala.
• Experience with data modeling, ER Diagrams, star schema, snowflake schema, slowly changing dimensions, and constraint based loading etc.
• Extensive experience working in Python/Java or other common languages
• Experience in delivering data using streaming technologies Kafka, Flume and Kinesis.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and CICD
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse technologies and techniques quickly.

Preferred Experience, Skills and Education:

• Experience with AWS cloud hosting and managed services such as Snowflake, s3, redshift etc.,
• Experience with data virtualization technologies like Composite or Denodo
• Knowledge and familiarity with Data Governance.
• Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work with others at all levels; effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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