Analytics Engineer (Contract)
Activision - Santa Monica, CA
posted 2 days ago
About the position
The Analytics Enablement Team is looking for a dedicated Analytics Engineer on a 12-month contract-to-hire basis. This role will give you the opportunity to contribute to critical projects while gaining experience and deepening your technical expertise. After 12 months, there will be an opportunity to transition into a full-time permanent role based on performance and business needs. As an Analytics Engineer, you will collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and studio partners to build and maintain data systems that facilitate efficient data analysis across the organization. You will work closely with various teams to ensure that our data infrastructure is robust, scalable, and capable of supporting the needs of our business.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to implement analytics solutions that support the goals of game designers and engineers.
- Assist in developing and maintaining data warehouses to provide a centralized and organized repository for our analytics teams.
- Work with data engineering and data analytics teams to build and implement project plans, enhancing our reporting capabilities.
- Support the design and development of data solutions that ensure data integrity throughout our pipelines.
- Assist in building, maintaining, and optimizing ETL workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Contribute to establishing and enforcing data quality standards to ensure the accuracy and reliability of analytics outputs.
- Communicate technical findings and insights to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.
Requirements
- A BA/BS degree in a technical field is required, with a preference for majors in Data Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related areas.
- At least 2-3 years of relevant professional experience in data modeling, warehousing, and ETL pipeline development.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for querying and handling complex datasets.
- Basic familiarity with creating data visualizations using platforms like Tableau, Looker, or similar tools.
- Strong ability to work with business partners, understanding their needs and translating them into actionable insights.
- Excellent communication skills are essential.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Airflow or other workflow management platforms.
- Experience in gameplay analytics or a similar domain.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
- Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job.
