Data Engineer

On behalf of our mobile game development client located in Victoria, British Columbia, Brainhunter Systems Ltd. is seeking a skilled BI Data Engineer. Our client is a highly successful publisher of mobile and social games. They rely heavily on BI (business intelligence) stack to optimize their player experience and business.

Key activities and deliverables:

• Design, build and improve ETL (extract, transform and load) pipelines in support of data aggregation and movement
• Implement processes to efficiently maintain data security
• Ensure data is ingestible and usable in reporting visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, Meta, or PowerBI

Qualified candidates will have:

• 3-5+ years of work experience in data science, engineering or analytics roles
• Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Math, or equivalent experience
• Experience with AWS (Amazon web services) offerings, including S3, EC2 and EMR
• Development ability in python and an Object Oriented programming language
• Strong database experience, leveraging event-driven data
• Experience handling large data volumes
• Drive to thrive in a complex environment with a hands-on approach to problem solving

Preferred candidates will have:

• Masters or PhD in relevant field or equivalent experience
• Practical experience with agile development practices and egoless programming
• Programming skill with Java and/or GoLang
• Experience with Hadoop Ecosystem including Spark, HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop and Hbase
• Experience with Luigi pipelines for moving data between HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
• Experience in mobile or social analytics and mobile/social game industries (though interesting perspectives from other industries are also appreciated)
• Current knowledge on the latest technologies in data science, BI and/or data management