Senior Data Engineer (12 month contract) - WildRift Data at Riotgames

Riotgames

Sydney, Australia·19h ago

SeniorFull-timePythonRustAWSCI/CD

Salary Range

$132,600 - $179,400 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

Riot Games is seeking a Data Engineer to join their Sydney-based team. This role involves modernizing and uplifting the data platform to enhance reliability, governance, and scalability. The Data Engineer will drive architectural refactoring across the lakehouse environment and implement robust data quality and observability frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

→Partner with senior engineers to execute architectural improvements across the lakehouse platform.
→Implement dimensional data models and standardize semantic/gold reporting layers.
→Enforce medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture standards.
→Build and integrate automated data quality monitoring.
→Improve metadata completeness and lineage transparency through catalog updates and automation.
→Contribute to CI/CD standards and pipeline reliability improvements.
→Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver production-grade, trusted datasets.

Requirements

✓5+ years of relevant experience building scalable data platforms in production environments.
✓Strong experience in data modeling and data warehousing, e.g. medallion lakehouse architecture.
✓Strong hands-on expertise with Databricks, Spark (PySpark/SparkSQL), Delta Lake, Airflow, and Python.
✓Experience implementing automated data quality checks and validation frameworks.
✓Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
✓Experience delivering on AWS-based data platforms.
✓Familiarity with metadata/catalog tools (Atlan, Alation, DataHub, Unity Catalog, etc.).