Architect Lead

• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including experience as a Tech Lead, Architect, Staff or Principal Data Engineer.
• A proven track record of designing and building data platforms end-to-end.
• Strong architectural skills and the ability to make, document, and defend technical decisions.
• Senior-level Python skills with direct implementation contributions.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, schema design, partitioning, and versioning.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including technologies such as S3, Kinesis, ECS, and Athena.
• Experience with modern data stack technologies, e.g. dbt.
• Hands-on experience with ETL orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience in gaming or other high-scale consumer environments.
• Experience with billions of events, real-time or near-real-time data, large-scale consumer products, product analytics, LiveOps, and high-volume data platforms.

• Define and own the end-to-end architecture of the data platform.
• Establish the technical foundations, standards, and best practices for a platform built from the ground up.
• Make, document, and defend key architectural and technology decisions, balancing scalability, performance, cost, and team capacity.
• Design solutions capable of supporting hundreds of millions of users and billions of events per day.
• Build core parts of the platform hands-on and remain actively involved in implementation.
• Partner with Product, Game, Analytics, and Marketing leadership to translate business needs into a clear platform roadmap.
• Establish engineering practices, code review standards, and operational discipline.
• Hire, mentor, and grow the Data Engineering team.
• Ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, maintainable, and cost-efficient.