Senior Data Engineer

 Who We Are:

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. We develop and publish products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. Our strategy is to create hit entertainment experiences, delivered on every platform relevant to our audience through a variety of sound business models. Our pillars - creativity, innovation, and efficiency - guide us as we strive to create the highest quality, most captivating experiences for our consumers. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at http://www.take2games.com.

The Challenge

We are looking for a motivated and quality focused Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team to design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable data pipelines.

The ideal candidate is a strong Python/PySpark developer equally comfortable with writing code and helping business teams understand data. A self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, ability to think big (while paying careful attention to detail) and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

 What You’ll Take On

• Design, develop and maintain high-capacity and scalable data pipelines.
• Design, develop and maintain API based ETL/ELT processes for raw data collection from multiple sources.
• Design, build and maintain data products through its release cycle including building data pipelines, curating the data sets for building in KPIs, and designing accompanying data quality and observability layer.  
• Build advanced semantic layers, establish rigorous data validation, data lineage tracking, and performance-monitoring frameworks to ensure delivery of quality data
• Provide thought leadership and collaborate with other team members to continue to scale our architecture to evolve for the needs of tomorrow.
• Develop and support continuous integration build and deployment processes using Jenkins, Docker, Git, etc.
• Define and implement monitoring and alerting policies for data solutions.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python.
• 4+ years of experience with Databricks.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in using advanced SQL queries and writing/optimizing highly efficient SQL queries.
• 2+ years of experience integrating with 3rd party APIs is required.
• 2+ years of experience of working in AWS environment is required.
• Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and/or HTML5 and frameworks such as React Js, Node, Angular, Vue.js and/or jQuery is highly desirable.
• Comfortable working with business customers to collect requirements and gain a deep understanding of varied business domains.
• Experienced in testing and monitoring data for anomalies and rectifying them.
• Experience designing and building ontologies, advanced semantic layers, taxonomies, or knowledge graphs is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of software coding practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an engineering or technical field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Engineering, or similar.

What We Offer You:

• Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
• Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
• Work Hard, Enjoy Life. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles - through corporate boot camp classes, company parties, our Office gaming spaces, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
• Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to; Discretionary bonus, Provident fund contributions, 1+5 medical insurance + top up options and access to Practo online Doctor consultation App, Employee assistance program, 3X CTC Life Assurance, 3X CTC Personal accident insurance, childcare services, 20 days holiday + statutory holidays,
• Perks. Gym reimbursement up to INR1150 per month, wellbeing program with the chance to earn up to $93 per annum, charitable giving program, access to learning platforms, employee discount program’s plus free games and events!

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic - not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.