Position Summary
We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to work on our massive data processing pipeline and lead our data lake and data warehouse building, to help us deliver more insights and scale our data infrastructure. You will have a chance to contribute to the company's evolving culture, bring innovative approaches and learn from your talented colleagues.
Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops programs and tools to support data ingestion, curation, and provision of complex enterprise data to achieve analytics and reporting on our current technology stack
• Designs and builds data extracts, integrations, and transformations
• Provides successful deployment and provisioning of data solutions to required environments
• Designs and builds data architecture and applications that successfully enable speed, quality, and efficiency pipelines
• Interacts with cross-functional customers and development team to gather and define requirements
• Develops understanding of the data and builds business acumen
• Reviews discrepancies in requirements and resolves with stakeholders
• Identifies and recommends appropriate continuous improvement opportunities and ensures integrations are automated and have proper exception handling
• Key team member of project team designing and deploying a ground up cloud data pipeline

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering (or another technical field)

Required Experience:

• 5 years as a Data Engineer on a data, analytics, or data science team
• Experience with building streaming pipelines at scale using Spark
• Advanced experience with AWS cloud services
• Advanced working SQL experience as well as performance turning
• Experience with data pipeline workflow management tools such as Airflow
• Experience working with agile methodologies and working in cross-functional teams

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• People person, team player with a strong can-do mentality
• Proficient in data modeling principles
• Proficiency in Snowflake and other data warehousing solutions (Redshift/Big Query)
• Proficiency in Databricks
• Advanced knowledge in Python
• Knowledge and ability to write, test, and debug APIs
• Must be proactive, demonstrate initiative, and be a logical thinker
• Must be an inquisitive learner and have a thirst for improvement
• Ability to understand and apply customer requirements, including drawing out unforeseen implications and making design recommendations
• Strong facilitation and consensus building skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate by simplifying complexity
• Ability to provide work guidance to junior level developers
• Enjoys higher learning and keeps track of industry best practices and trends
• Takes advantage of process and system improvement opportunities through acquired knowledge
• Bre proactive requiring minimal supervision
• Have strong time management ability and work organization skills
• Have the ability to prioritize workload and handle multiple tasks, and at times meet tight deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Highly Desired AWS Certifications (any)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - (Associate/Professional)
• AWS Certified Developer - (Associate/Professional)
• AWS Certified Data Analytics
• Databricks Data Engineer (Associate/Professional)
• Databricks ML Engineer (Associate/Professional)
• Databricks Analyst
• Snowflake (Core/Advanced Architect/Advanced Data Engineer/Advanced Data Scientist/Advanced Administrator)

We are SciPlay! We make games!
At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! We are the brainiacs behind-the-scenes; innovating, dreaming, and navigating the social gaming world. Together, if we stay passionate and ambitious with our goals, no one can stop us from becoming the #1 social and casual gaming company.
A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:
• Competitive salaries• Annual bonuses, matching 401k• Hybrid work model (3 days in office)• Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.• Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week• Summer Hours• Paid Family Leave• Paid Volunteer Time• Annual 2-night company retreat
Read More About Our Values Here:
https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU
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