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The VFX Artist will create high-quality VFX, enhancing the visuals of Fable and contributing creative ideas, while working with the team. The role involves creating and integrating VFX assets that complement gameplay mechanics, environment, and character design, optimizing for performance and memory considerations, and collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams. This contract position is based in Royal Leamington Spa, with a hybrid work model requiring a minimum of 3 days a week in the studio.

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<h2>Playground Games are looking for a VFX Artist to join our Fable team on a contract basis.</h2><h3>ABOUT US:&nbsp;</h3>As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre. &nbsp;<h3>ABOUT THE ROLE: &nbsp;</h3>As a VFX Artist, you will create high-quality VFX, elevate the visuals of Fable and deliver strong creative ideas, while communicating and collaborating with the wider team.&nbsp;You have an appreciation of a broad range of art styles and are able to apply your knowledge of animation, dynamics and rendering to real-time visuals and offline visual targets.&nbsp;This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required. &nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;WHAT YOU'LL DO: &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Create and integrate high-quality VFX assets that complement gameplay mechanics, environment, and character design, while optimizing for performance and memory considerations. &nbsp;</li><li>Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure seamless VFX asset integration and address VFX-related issues. &nbsp;</li></ul><h3>WHAT YOU'LL BRING: &nbsp;</h3><ul><li>A portfolio demonstrating high-quality real time VFX work.&nbsp;</li><li>Knowledge of a 3D software such as Houdini, 3DS Max and Maya.&nbsp;</li><li>A self-motivated team player, with good communication skills and a desire to learn and improve.&nbsp;</li><li>Passion for video games and the gaming industry.&nbsp;</li></ul>This is a fantastic opportunity to make world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios. &nbsp;Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment. &nbsp;&nbsp;We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. &nbsp;At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.&nbsp;If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on <a href="mailto:recruitment@playground-games.com">recruitment@playground-games.com</a>&nbsp;

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You will own and architect our data engineering pipelines to ingest marketing and fandom data from various sources and power insights using the data.Security Data EngineeringThis team is responsible for developing data products that deliver critical insights into security, fraud, and technology risks across customer accounts and internal systems. You will play a key role in enabling our security teams to detect and mitigate security risks within our extensive cloud technology infrastructure. Our infrastructure environment is large and complex, with intricate topology, access controls, security policies, and usage patterns. 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Some of our data sources are small (e.g., sales at Netflix House), and some are enormous (e.g., social media feeds). Our stack is Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Kafka - experience with these specific technologies is helpful but not strictly required.</li><li>You are proficient in Python and/or Scala for scripting, automation, and data orchestration frameworks, and you can write complex SQL (any variant) for ad-hoc and recurring workflows. You strive to write elegant and maintainable code, and you're comfortable picking up new technologies.</li><li>You understand how to model data efficiently for reporting and metrics, and how to organize data for scale and fast retrieval.</li><li>You have experience sourcing and modelling data from application APIs and event streams.</li><li>You have experience converting business requirements into data engineering workstreams, enabling insights that empower our colleagues to make better and more informed decisions.&nbsp;</li><li>You have experience mentoring and guiding/unblocking other team members, navigating ambiguity and creating clarity</li></ul><h2>What will you do?</h2><ul><li>Fully own critical pipelines and data sets to support variety of use cases in data science and engineering.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Directly collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs, model tables using data warehouse best practices, and develop data pipelines to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality data.</li><li>Creatively explore how to use data to continually add value to Netflix. 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