Senior Analytics Engineer

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation were part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to help design build and scale our analytics platform. This is a handson highimpact role suited to someone who enjoys greenfield analytics work has strong opinions on data modelling and architecture and partners closely with stakeholders to translate business problems into trusted wellgoverned data products.

You will work within the PlayStation Partners Platform delivering global data reporting and analytics solutions that support partners worldwide in developing and publishing games and content on PlayStation.

Our mission is to deliver timely scalable and highquality data and insights that enable datadriven decisionmaking improve operational efficiency and uncover revenue this role you will help shape how analytics is delivered across the organisation from modelling standards and dbt best practices to the creation of trusted decisionready datasets.

What You Will Be Doing

Analytics Engineering and Data Modelling

• Design build and maintain analyticsready data models using dbt following best practices such as modularity reusability and clear semantic layering.
• Lead the development of greenfield analytics assets from raw source ingestion through to curated businessfacing models.
• Apply strong data modelling techniques including dimensional modelling facts and dimensions and other appropriate design patterns.
• Own and evolve the analytics layer architecture ensuring it scales with data volume and business complexity.
• Ensure data quality and trust through testing documentation and observability within dbt.

Business Partnership

• Partner closely with business stakeholders analysts and product teams to understand requirements and translate them into welldesigned data models.
• Act as a trusted thought partner helping stakeholders understand what is possible with data and shaping requirements collaboratively.
• Balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery focusing on measurable business outcomes.

Platform and Best Practices

• Define and embed dbt standards including naming conventions model layering testing strategies and documentation practices.
• Contribute to data architecture decisions including warehouse design schema organisation and performance optimisation.
• Improve developer experience through tooling CI/CD patterns and modern analytics engineering workflows.
• Maintain deep expertise in the analytics technology stack ensuring optimal performance and effective feature usage.
  

Required Skills

• Proven experience delivering data products analytics and visualisations using Business Intelligence tools such as Domo Tableau Power BI Qlik or similar platforms.
• Strong handson experience with dbt including:
  • Data model design and refactoring
  • Generic and singular testing
  • Documentation and exposures
  • Sources snapshots and macros
• Excellent data modelling skills across conceptual logical and physical models including both third normal form and dimensional modelling approaches.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with modern cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake BigQuery or Redshift.
• Demonstrated ability to design analytics models that are technically robust and intuitive for business users.
• Experience building greenfield analytics or data platforms or significantly evolving existing ones.
• Experience with data quality and observability using dbt or complementary tooling.
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow Dagster or Prefect.
• Experience with semantic layers metrics frameworks or analytics consumption patterns.
• Exposure to data governance access control or analytics enablement at scale.
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior analytics engineers or analysts.
• Strong track record of partnering effectively with business teams to deliver outcomes.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Desirable Experience and Attributes

• Comfort operating in ambiguous or evolving data environments.
• Strong focus on clean design maintainability and longterm sustainability not just speed of delivery.
• Pride in building trusted data assets that are widely adopted and valued.
• Ability to be opinionated yet pragmatic clearly explaining tradeoffs and adapting when required.
• Experience maintaining high technical delivery standards including documentation and enduser selfservice enablement.
• Collaboration with business product and engineering teams to deliver scalable and flexible solutions.
• Ongoing support for users who rely on analytics products for decisionmaking.

Nice to Have

• Extensive experience with Domo.
• Handson experience with Snowflake.
• Exposure to web technologies such as JavaScript HTML and CSS.
• Experience in web analytics or related domains.
• Knowledge of statistical methodologies.
• Exposure to data science or advanced analytics use cases.
• Experience developing on AWS.

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