Staff Business Intelligence Analyst, PlayStation

$178-267k

SQL
Python
Tableau
Kafka
Airflow
Spark
Domo
Snowflake
MicroStrategy
Git
JSON
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in Aliso Viejo, CA

PlayStation

Gaming and digital entertainment provider

Job no longer available

PlayStation

Gaming and digital entertainment provider

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSports

Job no longer available

$178-267k

SQL
Python
Tableau
Kafka
Airflow
Spark
Domo
Snowflake
MicroStrategy
Git
JSON
dbt
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

Office located in Aliso Viejo, CA

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSports

Company mission

To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.

Role

Who you are

  • Expert-level analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to tackle highly complex data challenges
  • Deep understanding of statistical methods and techniques, with the ability to develop and apply advanced analytical models
  • Exceptional communication and presentation abilities, with the capability to communicate complex insights to diverse audiences, including senior leadership
  • Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to lead large analytical projects and provide guidance to junior analysts
  • A life-long learner who is curious, has a passion for solving hard, ill-defined problems, has comfort taking initiative and who continuously seeks to improve their skills and understanding
  • 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on, analytics / business intelligence engineer
  • Ability to think strategically and initiate, refine and complete projects proactively with minimal guidance and to supervise data analysts, data engineers and data scientists with their projects
  • Expert knowledge building complex, scalable cloud-based systems, data pipelines, and data modeling
  • Expert knowledge of SQL, data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing
  • Expert knowledge of analytics/BI tool architecture, functions, and features
  • Strong Python skills for data analysis and visualization
  • Experience designing analytics/BI architecture to power a variety of uses cases, including machine learning, data analytics and visualization
  • Ability to work with large data sets and optimize performance of analytical solutions
  • Experience with compliance, audit, user access control process and data governance
  • Demonstrated leadership and self-direction. Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
  • Experience in project management and Agile delivery methods

Desirable

  • Experience working with Kafka
  • Experience working in streaming services
  • Hands-on experience in building and optimizing DBT core projects
  • Experience developing DELTA pipelines, notebooks and dashboards in Databricks
  • Experience developing models in Databricks
  • Experience with Domo, Tableau, Imply, Hex, or similar

What the job involves

  • The Business Intelligence and Data Science Enablement team's mission is to provide advanced analytical insights and capabilities to inspire and optimize the future direction of the business
  • Our team is building an internal self service data platform that encompasses collection, processing, visualization, analysis, anomaly detection, root case and predictive modeling for both qualitative and quantitative data from all our users.
  • We specialize in game streaming telemetry and prepare highly sophisticated analysis with real time intelligence captured to highlight paths of improvement for the quality of experience
  • As a Staff BI Analyst/ Staff Analytic Engineer within our team, you'll harness the potential of data to empower us in providing unparalleled cloud streaming performance and delivering exceptional experiences to our players across the world
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop actionable recommendations and contribute to the achievement of organizational objectives
  • Responsible for leading major analytical projects, designing and implementing analytical methodologies, providing guidance on complex data issues, and contributing to the development of organizational strategies
  • Participate in high-level decision-making processes, provide guidance to senior management, and influence strategic directions based on their deep analytical expertise and insights
  • Develop new analytical methodologies, lead research initiatives, and tackle strategic issues that have a significant impact on the organization's long-term success
  • Leadership responsibilities and possibly overseeing teams of analysts, data scientists or researchers
  • Serve as the Analytics data lead working with the centralized data teams to optimize data pipelines and common data models in Snowflake/Databricks and S3/Kafka
  • Be a champion of “data as a product” and strive to build robust and scalable data products
  • Use your advanced data skills building data models for consumption by a team of data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and our internal data consumers
  • Build ad-hoc SQL queries, pipelines and notebooks as needed to support projects and complex business analysis
  • Implement procedures and standards around data reliability, accuracy, and availability
  • Implement DataOps best practices for versioning, testing, and production support
  • Improve data literacy through documentation and data consumer training
  • Tech Stack: Snowflake, Databricks, OpenSearch, DBT, SQL, Python, GitHub/Gitlab, Airflow, Kafka
  • Be the team architect and champion for the business intelligence tools/ analytics tools
  • Develop best practices, standards, and optimization of the different tools for specific use cases
  • Lead the complex engineering efforts to build dashboards and data visualizations that create valuable insights supporting business decisions
  • Compose business and technical documentation to improve data literacy across the organization lifting the self-service analytical capabilities of our stakeholders
  • Tech Stack: Domo, Imply, Databricks, MicroStrategy, Streamlit

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.

As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.

PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Private medical insurance
  • Private dental insurance
  • Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
  • Free fruit every day in our offices
  • On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
  • On-site subsidised cafés
  • On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Eye care assistance
  • x2 volunteering days each year
  • Group pension plan
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Season ticket loans
  • Life assurance
  • Income protection
  • 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
  • Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
  • Free giveaways of select first party products and services
  • Discounts on PlayStation products
  • Discounts on Sony products
  • Access to other corporate discounts

Company HQ

East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA

Founders

Jim Ryan

(CEO, not founder)

Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.

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Diversity & Inclusion at PlayStation

  • We're proud to celebrate diversity at PlayStation
  • Our Employee Resource groups, including Women@PlayStation, REPRESENT@PlayStation, Wellbeing@PlayStation, and our award-winning LGBTQ+ group, Pride@PlayStation, actively promote inclusion in the workplace and beyond

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