Senior Manager, Data Engineering - Valorant
Core
Senior leader managing a data engineering team to build scalable data infrastructure, ensure data quality, and drive actionable insights for the VALORANT game and its millions of players.
Role type
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, telemetry systems, and data models for game analytics and player insights
Domain
Video Games / Big Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership and coaching, Big Data technologies (Apache Airflow, Spark), Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), Databricks, Data modeling and governance, Cross-functional collaboration, Cost optimization
Preferred skills
Video game data engineering experience, DBT production experience, Analytics-driven gameplay optimization
Technologies
Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, AWS, GCP, Databricks, DBT
Responsibilities
Manage and coach a team of 5 data engineers, align engineering projects with product and analytics leaders, set technical direction and standards, ensure data quality and regulatory compliance, optimize data solution costs, build cross-studio engineering relationships
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities