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Senior Data Architect

British Columbia, Canada (On-site)

Senior Data Architect

3 Months ago • 8-10 Years

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Job Description

Senior Data Architect needed for Electronic Arts in Vancouver. 8+ years of experience in data warehousing, data management, and business intelligence. Must have strong SQL or Python skills, experience with Iceberg and Data Lakehouse, and knowledge of data privacy practices.

Must have:

Data Warehousing
Data Management
SQL or Python
Data Lakehouse

Good to have:

Snowflake
Data Mesh
MPP Databases
Reference Data

Perks:

Extended Benefits
Retirement Plan

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As part of Adrenaline team, you will develop data architectures which will support central technology team. You will engage with wider range of team members including game studios, tech teams, technology partners, and other teams. You will also look at how to provide high-level subject matter expertise on our products journey, contributing to the development of the data strategy and supporting investment plans. You will report to Director of Data Architecture.
What you will do:
1. Work with Business and technical partners to translate use cases and associated data models into data solutions and bring them to completion in partnership with data engineering and product management .
2. Design and implement a data architecture applying open table formats like Iceberg, ensuring metadata management and cataloguing for efficient data discovery and governance
3. Develop conceptual, logical, physical, and transformational data models including appropriate models to support analytics solutions and insights
4. Collaborate with teams to implement event-driven architectures and domain-driven design principles for real-time data processing and high scale data products.
5. Design distributed workflows and pipelines for seamless real-time data ingestion, transformation, and analysis.
6. Contribute to target state for data architecture components towards Data Lakehouse and Data/AI products design.
7. Develop data standards in partnership with Governance Team such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards and transformation rules.
8. Design data contracts to ensure data integrity and consistency across domains in a Data Mesh environment with Software Engineering team.
9. Ensure completion of tasks, milestones, and components, including functional specifications, design specifications, and project reviews
10. Conduct requirements mapping, vendor evaluations, technical proof-of-concept projects, use cases and test cases.
11. Document design methodologies, frameworks, principles, and standards
Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree in CS/Statistics/Math or equivalent experience
8+ years of work experience with enterprise data warehousing, data management, business intelligence and large-scale data solutions
Excellent SQL or Python skills
Knowledge with YAML Data modelling
Experience in system cataloguing, metadata management, and Reference Data,
Familiarity with Big Data and Data Analytics Stack.
Experience with columnar databases, MPP databases (i.e. Snowflake, Google Cloud, Azure , AWS)
Understanding of Taxonomies and Ontologies
Knowledge or Experience in Data mesh and Data Lakehouse Designs.
knowledge of data privacy practices and laws (internationally)
Experience presenting to business and technical teams including executive management
This is a non-managerial role.

BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):
º $107,600 - $147,100 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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$80.0K - $110.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$95.0K/yr avg.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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We exist to inspire the world to play. We put our people first, and we thrive off their diversity in our innovative technology and immersive storytelling. We’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community, no matter where you’re working from. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and transform the future of gaming. Join us.