Lead Data Engineer
Core
Owns Kabam's central data platform end-to-end, ensuring reliability and quality for petabyte-scale pipelines supporting analytics, finance, and AI tools.
Role type
Senior Lead Data Engineer (Team Lead)
Builds
Central data platform (lakehouse and medallion layers) for game telemetry and analytics
Domain
Gaming / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
SQL, Python, data modelling, dbt, cloud data warehouse, CI/CD, data-ops, team leadership, architectural design, cost optimization
Preferred skills
GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, GKE), Databricks, Spark, game telemetry experience, ML/AI analytics support
Technologies
GCP, Databricks, BigQuery, dbt, GCS
Responsibilities
Lead and manage the data engineering team; Design and evolve data architecture; Define and enforce data standards and contracts; Build and maintain data pipelines; Account for data platform spend and efficiency; Implement data governance and AI readiness.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
