Application Engineer, Riot Games

Information Architect

$153.8-216.2k

+Equity

AWS
Tableau
Looker
Airflow
Power BI
Spark
Oracle
Concur
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles
Riot Games

Player-focused game development platform

Open for applications

Riot Games

Player-focused game development platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainment

Open for applications

$153.8-216.2k

+Equity

AWS
Tableau
Looker
Airflow
Power BI
Spark
Oracle
Concur
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainment

Company mission

To be the most player-focused game company in the world.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate brings the experience needed to elevate the technical maturity of how Riot works through foundational problems in process, data, and technology management
  • 7+ years experience technically leading and/or implementing end-to-end integrations architectures & data management activities, from foundational activities like data governance, data quality, and metadata management, to value-deliverables like master data management, data warehousing & BI, data science and analytics, and data driven applications
  • 7+ years experience translating business requirements into conceptual, logical to physical data models
  • 5+ years experience working with data and integrations from financial and/or HR systems used in planning, forecasting, and reporting, and analytics processes, such as: Oracle EBS, Workday, OneStream, Coupa, Concur, ADP, etc
  • 5+ years experience with data integration, including ETL methodologies, CDC, batch and continuous processing between source systems and data buses and/or data warehouses
  • 5+ years integrating data across data integration systems, big data & analytics systems, master data management systems, RDBMS systems, with familiarity in: Event buses & integration middleware, Workato, SNOW Integration Hub, Databricks & Spark, AWS Data technologies, Airflow, Delta Lake, DBT, etc

Desirable

  • Experience leading large MDM initiatives and process reengineering related to data
  • Experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, etc)
  • Experience implementing business intelligence reports and tools such as Tableau, Looker, PowerBI
  • Experience implementing data processes in an enterprise event bus
  • Experience with logical data warehouse, data virtualization and data federation patterns
  • Working knowledge of data platform infrastructure and operations, data operations, business intelligence, data science

What the job involves

  • The role of Application Engineer III (Information Architect) at Riot brings deep knowledge of enterprise platforms, integrations, and analytics to problems that require synthesizing data within and across enterprise data domains like finance, human resources, and legal and enterprise technology
  • As an Application Engineer III (Information Architect), you will be collaborating with business users, data SMEs, and platform owners from design to implementation of enterprise applications and analytics capabilities that leverage critical enterprise information for core planning, decision making, and business processes
  • Work with business SMEs (such as Finance, HR, Legal, Operations) to design the conceptual and logical data models, in addition to their links to business capabilities and business processes
  • Assist SMEs in the selection/design/implementation of business applications, data architecture, and supporting processes
  • Designs the reporting and analytics frameworks and works with developers & data analysts in their development
  • Collaborate with data and platform SMEs to ensure the data architecture design supports the enterprise information architecture
  • Work with data and technical SMEs to design the data integration framework and processes
  • Collaborate with other technical leads to improve enterprise architecture, data architecture, and lead projects that incrementally deliver on target architectures
  • Assist with design and implementation of integrations between essential enterprise application platforms (FP&A, ERP, Middleware, Project Planning software, HRIS, etc)
  • Collaborate cross-departmentally with business operations, IT systems, data management, and analytics teams to integrate data, optimize technical and business processes, and consult on best practices in data management, reporting, etc
  • Help to coach, and mentor non-technical professionals who are involved in data activities but who may not be formally trained in data or systems management

Our take

Riot Games has grown into one of the world’s most prominent online and mobile game developers, due in large part to the success of its 2009 flagship title League of Legends which hosts just under seventy million users every month.

Riot is riding the wave of online gaming growth, having made a well timed switch from PC-only into mobile-based gaming, as capitalising on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.

However, adding further titles to its resume will be key to building on its success, as League of Legends was its only offering for the best part of a decade. Since being acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in 2011, the company has grown significantly in Asian markets, opening its Shanghai Game Studio in 2021 and expanding its China Game Studio Group in 2022. These two hubs will help Riot Games make further inroads in a country where PC gaming is already huge and continues to grow.

Regardless of League of Legends' success both online and in live arenas, the company nevertheless experienced a round of layoffs internationally that amounted to 11% of its workforce. Pair that with legal troubles in 2024 concerning the company’s partnership with now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and Riot Games appears to be in a period of transition. Thanks to the strength of its gaming products, however, Riot will no doubt maintain a comfortable position within the gaming world.

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Funding (2 rounds)

Sep 2009

$8m

SERIES C

Jul 2008

$7m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $15m

Company benefits

  • We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
  • Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available
  • Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations
  • Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games

Company values

  • Player experience first
  • Dare to dream
  • Thrive together
  • Execute with excellence
  • Stay hungry, stay humble

Company HQ

Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA

Leadership

Brandon Beck

(Co-Chairman)

Having studied at the University of Southern California, they worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. they left this role in September 2006 to co-found Riot Games, where they served initially as co-CEO.

Marc Merrill

(Co-Chairman)

After a degree at the University of Southern California, they worked as a U.S. Bank Analyst and a Manager of Advanstar Communications. They co-founded Riot Games with Brandon in September 2006, alongside being a Principal of NaHCo3 since 2016.

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