Solution Architect

Requisition Number: 165592

Position Title: Software Engineer III

External Description:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow our employees to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

As part of the Analytics Solutions team, you will report directly to the Analytic Solutions Senior Architect and you will help improve the end-to-end analytics warehouse used to depict player evolution year-over-year in AAA-titles. You will engage with multiple partners including game studios and the EA business to capture requirements and create logical and physical data models. You will also help identify data sources and document and maintain the data landscape to ensure validity and correct definition. You will also provide high-level expertise on the analytics platform and telemetry data and share your knowledge with our partners to help them get the most value out of their analytics projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work with analytics and game development teams to understand and establish customer requirements and specify data-driven designs, then support implementation within the analytics platform by working with other data solution architects, and the data and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Participate in the assessment and design of data architecture components (data model, mapping, data flows, transformations, interfaces) to make sure they are well integrated and aligned with the solution architecture
• Map datum from source to target; prepare and manage data models for multiple components of the analytics platform.
• Develop mastery of the data – definition, source, flow, required transformation and velocity.
• Be a consultant to our customers and provide Tier 1 support for all data solutions.
• Promote and enforce standards for data solutions; act as a good data citizen guiding analysts on best practices using our solutions; and promote good governance within the community.
• Manage our systems' data quality and provide stewardship in data governance programs.
• Awareness of security requirements, potential impacts, and the need to enforce standards.

Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of experience with data warehousing, data management and business intelligence, within enterprise scale data management systems.
• Customer-focussed, you will need to display excellent communication skills (in-person and remotely) with the ability to describe complex information and designs simply
• Excellent technical understanding of data modelling, design and architecture principles and techniques across master data, transaction data and derived data.
• Expertise in creating relational and object-driven data models using Kimball concepts.
• Experience with data integration from multiple data sources, including Snowflake, Presto, BigQuery, and Kafka.
• Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores).
• You will need to excel in an agile work environment and have the passion to make a difference.
• You will have experience with and eagerness to document all design decisions, with data modelling and wiki tools

Preferred Experience:

• Familiarity with the video game data domain and its life cycle.
• Working knowledge in the areas of Reference Data, Data Quality, Metadata Management.
• Experience with additional languages for data analysis including R, Python, C#.
• Experience with version control systems and code review processes.
• Experience with OLAP, columnar databases, MPP databases.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban and agile methodologies.
• Experience working with remote teams in different time zones around the world.

 

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 49

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.