Data Analyst - Data Services - Remote (Europe)

Posted 3 years ago

About Game Analytics

From indie developers, games studios, to established publishers, GameAnalytics is currently the #1 analytics tool for anyone building a mobile game. Our network includes more than 130,000 games, which are played by more than 1 billion people each month.

What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.

About the Data Services team and the role

We're a highly collaborative and creative team developing the different products in Data services. As a team, we enjoy learning and solving problems. We are flexible in evolving our product and scale quickly when it is required.

We are currently looking for a skilled Data Analyst in order to work with our customers and the team. Our ambition is to work with Customers to create and evolve the use of Player Warehouse to best fit the business needs. The mission of Data Services is to turn complex data into usable data to impact the bottom line.

This is an excellent opportunity for Data Analysts interested in Data Visualization and Data as a Service in an exciting industry that is quickly evolving.

We strive to deliver Game Data in a format that allows the Customer to analyze it. We have four flavours of delivery:

  • Pushing their raw data to their systems
  • Data Warehouse
  • Delivering Dashboards
  • Delivering Key Metrics

As the most prominent games analytical firm globally, collecting ~100,000 events per second, resulting in new 700Gb of (compressed) new data per day, this role requires your skills in Big Data to make the analysis, adoption of the product, and flow process simpler and more efficient.

Requirements

We are seeking an additional member to join the data team family, someone able to bridge the gap between engineering, product and customer. You’ll need to be passionate about data and have a technical mindset. The following experience and/or skills are required:

  • Expertise writing and running SQL queries on databases like MySQL or similar
  • Experience in the field of Business Intelligence and visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Holistics)
  • Basic understanding of data pipelines (ETL) and Big Data technologies (nice-to-haves: PySpark, Druid, Hadoop)
  • Great communication skills, able to efficiently convey ideas to other team members, non-technical stakeholders, and customers.
  • Proactive and fast learner, eager to solve problems and try out new technologies.
  • Ability to write Python code, ideally familiar with common libraries such as Pandas or Numpy.

Desirable

  • Exposure to cloud technologies, like GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Composer) or AWS (S3, Lambda, EMR).
  • Basic knowledge about DevOps technologies like git, bash, Terraform, Docker…

Benefits

  • Remote working flexibility –or part-time remote
  • (When in office) Food, snacks and drink
  • Entertainment Area
  • 25 days paid holiday (excluding bank holiday)
  • Company sickness leave
  • Parental and guardian leave
  • Additional compassionate leave
  • “Work-from-Anywhere”Scheme
  • Learning budgets
  • Monthly social nights
  • Expense phone bill
  • Cycle to work scheme

Please note that you will be hired under a PEO arrangement for remote roles located outside of the UK and Denmark. This is to ensure that our benefits are not in violation of local employment laws.