Analytics Engineer (Contract)

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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 include:

• 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.

Contract:

• Duration: This is a 12-month contract position

What will you bring to the team?

The ideal candidate is a motivated data enthusiast eager to expand their analytics engineering abilities in a dynamic environment. You should be focused on delivering value to stakeholders and have a passion for video games. Your success will be measured by:

• Efficiency Improvements: Enhancing the efficiency of data workflows by contributing to the design and optimization of ETL processes.

• Collaboration: Building strong relationships within the team and with studio partners, contributing to team success.

• Communication: Supporting clear and effective communication efforts within analytics engineering projects.

• Documentation: Assisting in the creation of comprehensive and understandable documentation for data models, ETL processes, and other technical aspects.

• Domain Knowledge: Sharing knowledge and insights to foster a collaborative and communicative team culture.

Qualifications:

• Educational Background: 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. Equivalent practical experience is also highly valued.

• Experience: At least 2-3 years of relevant professional experience in data modeling, warehousing, and ETL pipeline development.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in SQL and Python for querying and handling complex datasets. Experience with Airflow or other workflow management platforms is a plus.

• Data Visualization: Basic familiarity with creating data visualizations using platforms like Tableau, Looker, or similar tools.

• Collaboration and Communication: Strong ability to work with business partners, understanding their needs and translating them into actionable insights. Excellent communication skills are essential.

• Industry-Specific Knowledge (Desirable): Experience in gameplay analytics or a similar domain is a plus but not required.

Your Platform

We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain, and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities, and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivaled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.

About Activision 

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
 

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.