Tripledot Studios

Senior Data Engineer – Contract

Tripledot Studios

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesPythonSparkSQL

About the role

  • - Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to support AI/ML initiatives across the studio.
  • - Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and game developers to understand data needs and translate them into robust infrastructure solutions.
  • - Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows that ingest and transform structured and unstructured data from various sources (e.g., game telemetry, player behavior, marketing).
  • - Work with cloud platforms to manage and optimize data lakes, warehouses, and orchestration tools.
  • - Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across all stages of the data lifecycle.
  • - Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and ensure timely delivery of data to downstream systems.
  • - Enable real-time and batch data processing to support AI use cases like player segmentation, churn prediction, personalization, and content optimization.
  • - Advocate for best practices in data engineering, including CI/CD, version control, testing, and observability.

Requirements

  • - 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally within gaming, mobile apps, or digital products.
  • - Hands-on experience with data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
  • - Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • - Experience with databases like Trino, BQ and Redshift is a plus.
  • - Proven track record of using big data technologies and distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink) for large scale processing.
  • - Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (mainly AWS, but understanding of other providers like GCP is a plus) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • - Familiarity with machine learning workflows, feature stores, and model serving is a plus.
  • - Strong Data Modelling skills, schema evolution management and usage of open table formats, like Apache Iceberg.
  • - Usage of generative AI for daily tasks is a plus.
  • - Passion for gaming and an interest in using AI to create better player experiences.
  • - A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills and a product-focused approach.
Benefits
  • - **25 days paid holiday** in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
  • - **Hybrid Working:** We work in the office 3 days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and a third day of your choice.
  • - **20 days fully remote working:** Work from anywhere in the world, in addition to hybrid policy, 20 days of the year.
  • - **Daily Free Lunch:** In the office you get £12 every day to order from JustEat.
  • - **Regular company events and rewards:** quarterly on-site and off-site events that celebrate cultural events, our achievements and our team spirit.
  • - **Employee Assistance Program**
  • - **Family Forming Support**
  • - **Life Assurance & Group Income Cover**
  • - **Continuous Professional Development**
  • - **Private Medical Cover & Health Cash Plan**
  • - **Dental Cover**
  • - **Cycle to Work Scheme**
  • - **Pension Plan**
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLELTSQLPythonbig data technologiesdata modelinggenerative AIcloud infrastructurecontainerization
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetstrong communication skillsproduct-focused approach