Virginia Community College System

Senior Data Developer

11 October 2024
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£59000 - £111000 / year

Job Description

The opportunity

Unity Ads Data development team is looking for an experienced Senior Data developer with a strong background in Data development and a passion for working on cutting edge technology. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development of data pipelines and services to enable data-driven insights and power BI, ML, experimentation and user-facing features. You will be exposed to multiple cloud platforms and data pipelines that process >7 billion events per day. Come and join the team, and help us create meaningful data products and drive for technical solutions, with our global and cross-functional teams.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design and develop data pipelines using technologies like Spark, Python, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, DBT, and Druid.
  • Work with ML developers, data scientists, and analysts to understand and translate business needs into actionable data solutions that drive insights and reporting.
  • Develop analytics products and data solutions to support both internal and external customers.
  • Ensure best practices for data infrastructure, storage, and processing in a high-volume, petabyte-scale environment.
  • Architect cloud-based data solutions using platforms like GCP, AWS, and Snowflake, while implementing data governance strategies to ensure quality, consistency, and security.

What we’re looking for

  • Minimum of 5 years focused on building scalable and efficient data pipelines.
  • Skilled in SQL and programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java.
  • Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Flink, Spark) and cloud platforms (e.g., GCP preferred, AWS).
  • In-depth understanding of ETL/ELT, data modeling, and data patterns like SCD, CDC, snapshots, and partitioning.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, data architectural knowledge, and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

You might also have

  • Knowledge of Kafka or similar pub-sub technology.
  • Experience in AdTech is a plus, but not required

Additional information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.
  • International relocation support is not available for this position.
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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