Analytics Engineer

At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. 

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. 

Rockstar Games is on the lookout for a skilled Analytics Engineer with strong software development skills who is passionate about games and big data.

This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar’s unique game development studio in the heart of Leeds, England. 

WHAT WE DO

• The Rockstar Games Analytics team provides insights and actionable results to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization in support of their decision making.
• We partner with multiple departments across the company, leveraging analytics to measure and improve on the success and health of our games.
• We collaborate as a distributed team to develop innovative data pipelines, data products, data models, reports, analyses, and machine learning applications.
• The Analytics Architecture vertical within the Analytics team is tasked with building out high impact data models and internal tooling to support the wider Analytics team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with Data Scientists and business stakeholders to understand analytical needs and translate them into robust data infrastructure and workflows for the global Analytics team to leverage for deriving insights. Collaborate with the Data Engineering team to design data models and data pipelines. 
• Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines. Monitor performance and optimize data systems for high performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with the Data Integrity team to build a Data Quality Framework that ensures production data meets SLAs for key stakeholders and business processes.  
• Perform timely Root Cause Analysis to troubleshoot data-related issues; assist in implementation of code and process fixes.
• Provide thought leadership and collaborate with other team members to continue to scale our architecture to evolve for the needs of tomorrow. Contribute to the establishment of best practices including code standards, version control, documentation, testing, and review processes.
• Develop and support CI/CD processes using Terraform, Github, TeamCity, Octopus, etc.
• Define and implement monitoring and alerting policies for data solutions. 

REQUIREMENTS