Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Salary expectation: up to £60K depending on experience

Location: Birmingham (Hybrid(3 days in the office and 2 days from home)

Intouch Games are now part of the Skywind Group who are a privately held entertainment technology solutions provider. Since our establishment in 2012, we have been growing steadily alongside our partners and customers, proud to witness their own headway augmented by our products.

We shape the future of our industry with world-class games, back-office and content management systems, hosting solutions, infrastructure, proprietary deep learning engine as well as a revolutionary user retention suite of products.

Join us today and be a part of our rapidly growing team of more than 300 professionals spanning 8 development centres.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take charge of integrating third-party APIs for a variety of use cases
• Collaborate with data analyst and DBA to locate and define new process improvements
• Develop data cleansing procedures to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Maintain existing services regarding data pipeline, efficiently identify and report bugs
• Ensure all work items are tracked and logged appropriately on JIRA project management system. Participate in tracking, estimating, creating, and resolving tasks as appropriate

Must Haves:

• At least 4+ years of relevant experience as a data engineer working with large and complex data models, ideally within B2C and/or internet business
• Proficient in Hadoop / Hive / Git / Snowflake
• Practical knowledge of Java / Python / Spark / ETL / PowerBI
• Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / Cassandra / etc.)
• Excellent attention to detail, natural curiosity, ability to problem-solve creatively, and to communicate with global staff and accomplish goals with minimal supervision.
• Passionate about the craft, and enjoys working in a dynamic environment
• Strong balance of business thinking alongside analytical and technical skills.

Bonus Points for:

• Experience with Docker / Airflow / Hue / Oozie
• Familiarity with building Scalable/Maintainable RESTful APIs on Linux
• Experience of build an inhouse BI solution from scratch or integrate a BI solution like Tableau or Power BI.
• Knowledge of Metadata and OLAP Cube
• Experience on hands on Machine Learning or AI projects
• Familiarity with development with AWS EMR
• Good commercial sense to learn the business and foresee the bottleneck