BI Architect

Permanent - Full-time

Who is Armory Tech

When you are a part of the Armory Technology department, you will join a family of talented individuals that strive to offer the best products and services to the game development teams across the Square Enix Mobile world. We create products that support and empower the game teams throughout the entire life cycle of the game creation process so they can focus on bringing great experiences to the players. Our internal values focus on Growth and Innovation for all the individuals while keeping a transparent communication and feedback culture. We want to build an environment where every member of our team thinks like a business owner and is an entrepreneur helping the entire group in creating amazing technology.

What is your opportunity

As a Business Intelligence (BI) Architect in Central Tech, you play a crucial role in the design and support of Armory Tech products for our game development teams. Working in collaboration with the Solutions Architect, other domain architects, and developers, you will craft and implement the technical vision with the technology development teams. You will motivate them to achieve high quality products while providing technical direction to create a sustainable and performant ecosystem.

What will you do

• Work collaboratively with our cross-functional product and development teams to set up a complete ecosystem of BI practices, products and systems and define the long-term technology vision and roadmap of our BI ecosystem;
• Work closely with other architects in different domains to discuss technologies, align practices, and stay current with industry advances and standards;
• Be accountable for overall architectural decisions of our BI products and systems.
• Meet regularly with other architects, scrum masters, and programmers to discuss progress and help resolve obstacles along the way;
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to find the best BI solutions using a wide variety of technologies, systems, and services;
• Provide technical oversight by reviewing technical designs, processes, and code and perform validations to ensure high level of optimizations;
• Mentor and motivate programmers to develop their technical skills;
• Anticipate and assess complex and urgent issues and propose solutions;
• Participate as a member of an Agile development team and contribute to product development when needed;
• Find and implement BI products and solutions having in mind requirements such as: support and long-term maintenance, performance, extensibility, and scalability,industry standards and best practices, cross platform usability (consoles, mobile devices, PC).

Experience & Qualifications

• Passion for mobile games and a vision of the mobile game industry and F2P;
• 10+ years working with Business Intelligence, 2+ years as a BI architect;
• Extensive programming and technical leadership experience with various BI products and systems in a GCP Big Data cloud environment;
• Extensive experience with multiple database systems, data lakes, data lakehouses, data warehouses and data marts;
• Extensive experience with streaming and batch data pipelines;
• Extensive experience with creation and implementation of data development and quality standards and practices;
• Experience creating dashboards and personalized analysis reports;
• Experience delivering data products and services in an Agile environment using Agile frameworks;
• A desire to learn and share knowledge to push the boundaries of technology & help others improve their skills;
• Solid experience as a BI developer in an Agile environment, working with product owners, stakeholders, and developers;
• A passion for a collaborative approach to problem solving and delivering workable solutions within quick turnaround times;
• Record of accomplishment of delivering quality experiences that meet or exceed customer expectations;
• Excellent organization skills, being meticulous, self-managing, and pragmatic;
• A strong work ethic and ability to proactively take ownership in an innovative and fast-paced environment;
• Maturity and a professional attitude, comfortable with continuous improvement;
• Expert knowledge in continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies, various DevOps technologies, programming languages, databases and data tools and technologies, various marketing and monetization analytics technologies, backend technologies, performance, efficiency, code optimization, and security issues.

Interpersonal Qualities

• Experience with various practices such as Master Data Management, data governance, data catalog, data observability/lineage, security, data privacy, and regulations (GDPR, COPPA).

Motivation & Interests

• Passion for video games is a must!