Lead Data Engineer

In this Lead Data Engineer role, you will guide a cross-functional data platform to ingest and process high-volume data for PlayStation game analytics. You will shape the technical direction, scale the platform, and enable studio self-service analytics across development and post-launch. You’ll partner with analytics engineers, DevOps, and game studios to improve data quality, observability, and tooling. This is a chance to influence data-driven decisions across PlayStation titles and drive the future of analytics in gaming.

• Own parts of the data pipeline and drive improvements toward technical and business goals
• Build supporting services for the pipeline, including integrations with in-game maps and video tooling
• Integrate data collection platform with BI tools to enable studio self-service
• Collaborate with DevOps, analytics engineers, and stakeholders across the studio
• Improve data quality, lineage, and observability
• Support existing tooling with quality and documentation improvements
• Act as a technical expert and share knowledge with colleagues

• Experience building and owning Data Pipelines for high-throughput streaming and batch data
• Proficiency in Go or Python with willingness to learn Go
• Experience building robust, scalable, and resilient services
• Proven impact in current and previous roles
• Ability to solve data problems and lead investigations and remediation
• Experience with cloud data services, specifically AWS (S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena, AWS Glue)

• problem-solving mindset
• ownership and accountability
• collaboration across teams
• Go or Python (with Go willingness)
• data pipelines for streaming and batch
• cloud data services (AWS: S3, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena, Glue)