Director of Data Engineering
Core
Architecting data foundations and telemetry standards for a global video game ecosystem, transforming player interactions into actionable intelligence.
Role type
Director of Data Engineering (Strategic IC + Team Leadership)
Builds
High-scale telemetry pipelines, AI-integrated data platforms, and ML Ops frameworks for game studios.
Domain
Video Games / Data Engineering / Telemetry / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
High-scale distributed systems, telemetry design, FinOps, team leadership, streaming data, SRE/DevOps principles
Preferred skills
Game engine data emission (Unreal/Unity), AI-integrated platforms (Snowflake/Databricks), full-stack development
Technologies
Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Genie, Unreal Engine, Unity
Responsibilities
Lead data engineering vision across Sports/Core/R&D; Transition infrastructure to AI-augmented processing; Own cloud infrastructure budget and FinOps; Drive telemetry design and standards; Build ML Ops framework for Data Scientists; Hire and mentor engineering teams.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on architectural oversight
