Data QA Engineer
at Activision Publishing Inc.

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Your Platform

Demonware's Data team is responsible for creating the services and infrastructure that ingest the billions of events our games emit each day. At this scale, the challenges we face empower our engineers to flex their creative engineering muscles. When we get things right the analysts, studios and developers that interact with our systems can rapidly go from question to insight without ever having to talk to us.

The Demonware Data team also works with studios to model and instrument the things that matter. We work with our customers to ship data forward applications, ensure compliance of data produced and oversee the quality throughout.

Your Mission

We are looking for a software engineer with strong analytical skills who is comfortable with large datasets consisting of structured and unstructured data. Someone who is skilled with SQL and advanced query templating who can understand our data, metadata, and their applications. We want to raise the visibility of our data health as well as improve our data quality processes using backend technologies.

• Work within a cloud based big data environment.
• Write effective queries against big data sources that return results accurately, enhance database efficiency, and are ready to scale for the future.
• Engineer processes and workflows to provide analysis of data flow and data health across multiple systems.
• Develop automation to identify and report data issues, data losses, and delays.
• Define, visualize, and report data metrics encompassing many petabytes of game data.
• Provide analytical support internally to data engineers, engineering teams within Demonware, and other data customers.
• Look for further opportunities to automate manual processes. Reducing the likelihood of human error and increasing the coverage and depth of data health reporting.
• Build and maintain KPI and Service Level Objectives and Agreements dashboards.
• Communicate with data customers, along with engineers, to gather requirements, define metric thresholds and build a notification process stakeholders can rely upon.

*This position is a hybrid role requiring an in-office presence in the Vancouver, Canada office three days per week.

*This is a temporary 12-month contract position.

Player Profile

• Analytical and/or software development background with strong problem-solving skills, proven by the capability to understand core business and engineering needs and get to the root of an inquiry.
• Curious, internally motivated, self-starter with ability to plan, organize, and establish priorities to manage numerous projects and achieve results in a timely, scalable manner.
• Strong quantitative skills with a penchant for analytical query writing using SQL
• Experience with Python or another computer language.
• Experience building templated SQL queries with flexible and dynamic logic.
• Have the ability to structure a concise, clear presentation of findings, based on large sets of complex data, and effectively present this to any level in the organization with appropriate visualizations.

Bonus Points

• Experience using big data analytics tools (Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks)
• Familiar with agile project management tools such as Jira
• Experience in logging, monitoring and metrics systems (Elasticsearch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Understanding of various database technologies (RDBMS, Columnar Storage, Network, Graph)
• Experience working with big data tools (Airflow, Spark)
• Familiarity with version control software (Git)
• Experience working with container-based applications (Docker, Kubernetes)

Our World

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We work alongside engineers and creatives at our AAA partner studios and deliver the online and data services required by our extensive franchises. We have launched well over 100 games, and our services connect multiple millions of players every single day into epic entertainment experiences!

While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year on year. We also have a strong history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny, Diablo, Guitar Hero, and Skylanders.

Our success comes from our dedicated and passionate people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative, we deliver on time and at scale.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/