Big Data team Lead

In order to bring even more improvements to GOG.com as a company, we need to assure that our decisions have a data-driven background. We’re seeking a lead who will initially help us build our Big Data structures, and our Big Data Platform Development Team in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Managing, planning and coordinating the future team’s tasks to assure effectiveness, as well as developing the team members.
• Designing, implementing (or building) and engineering data platform solutions/ecosystem using Big Data technologies.
• Cooperating with business users within the company and working with existing data systems to analyze and profile data sources, as well as identify and validate business rules.
• Generating efficient data marts, analysis and reports on large data sets.
• Building basic automations to reduce manual interventions for repeated analyses and data updates.

Job Requirements:

• One of our base requirements is extensive experience in a commercial environment. Aside from that we expect:
• 5+ years’ experience in working with Big Data platforms (Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence) and their implementation.
• Expertise in technological stack (e.g. Kafka, Spark, ES, NiFi), needed to build a real time analytical system for event streams.
• A strong understanding of new and existing data processing technologies and visualization tools, as well as experience in one or more of the following data oriented languages: Java, Python, R, Scala.
• A strong understanding of various Big Data components, vendors and technologies such as: Hadoop, Tableau or low latency solutions.
• Previous (and successful) experience in managing others.
• Proficiency in project management, as well as excellent organizational and coordination skills.
• Ability to easily communicate in English.
• Knowledge of fundamental data transformation, cleaning, validation and statistical techniques.
• Knowledge of relational/dimensional modeling, telemetry, data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning, and visualization is highly desirable.

What we offer:

• A unique opportunity to enter a booming industry and to influence the future of digital distribution.
• A gamer’s paradise where you will be surrounded by games - living & breathing them!
• A great, laid-back work atmosphere in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
• The chance to work in an international environment with exceptional experts.
• A Profit Sharing Program after 6 months of work, where employees share 10 % of GOG.com's net profit (paid out once a year).
• Access to a health care and sport activities package.
• A relocation package for foreigners as well as assistance from our HR throughout the whole process.
• Polish lessons should you need them.
• Frequent social activities, free fruits, an in-house cantina, and other goodies are a standard.
• Free access to CD PROJEKT RED & GOG.com games.
• If you think you’ve got what it takes, please submit your CV and cover letter (both in English) below.

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Please be informed that we reserve the right to contact only selected applicants. The hired individual will need to work in-house, in our office based in Warsaw, Poland.
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