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Data Engineer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Irvine, CA, United States
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The business intelligence team is seeking a grandmaster data engineer who lives, breathes, and eats game and business data. No data set too large, this data engineer will be relentless in their pursuit of building a series of epic data tubes, empowering our rockstar team of analysts to deliver data driven insights to our publishing and development teams.
Class Role
• Develop processes to ETL data from production data sources to a centralized data warehouse.
• Design and develop star schemas based on business requirements to report key metrics.
• Troubleshoot any performance, system or data related issues, and work to ensure data consistency and integrity.
• Work closely with executives, team leads and game designers to provide insight into game and business data.
• Effectively communicate with users at all levels of the organization, both in written and verbal presentations.
Level Requirements
• Strong experience working with relational databases
• Champion of data and its potential to guide critical business and design decisions
• Extensive background extracting and transforming complex data sets (ETL process design and administration)
• Experience with database design and star schema data warehouse theory
• Slow data loads and data bugs result in keyboard facerolls
• Previous experience with the Hadoop eco-system (HDFS, Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, etc.)
• Strong technical understanding of data modeling, design, architecture principles, and techniques to take business requirements from concept to implementation
• Passionate video gamer and in-depth knowledge of Company games, products, and services
Recommended Talents
• Expertise with DMExpress or other enterprise ETL tools
• Experience with Teradata or other MPP database
• Knowledge of Linux architecture and scripting
• Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ or working with real-time systems
• Knowledge of statistical models and machine learning
• Does not turn with the keyboard when playing World of Warcraft
Required Application Materials
• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
◦ Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
◦ What games you are currently playing
**Only Resumes with Cover Letters will be considered.