Blastworks is seeking a skilled BI Data Engineer to improve our Big Data systems. We’re a highly successful publisher of mobile and social games and we rely heavily on our BI (business intelligence) stack to optimize our player experience and our 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
Salary Range: $70,000-110,000 CAD annually
Exact compensation will be based on skills and experience.
