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Location - Kelowna, Vancouver or Seattle

COVID-19 UPDATE: Please note that all Hyper Hippo Entertainment (HHE) employees are working remotely for the time being due to COVID-19, as the health & safety of our employees and their families is extremely important to us. Due to this, we’re currently having all new hires begin work with us remotely rather than in our office locations.

The Opportunity

We are creating a central hub in Microsoft Azure that will enable our teams to dive deeper into understanding what our players want and need from our games. As a Senior Data Engineer at Hyper Hippo, you will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture. This includes building and maintaining a conformed data model, handling the addition of new data sources, optimizing ETL/ELT pipeline, and preparing data for analytics and reporting done by cross functional teams.

A Data Engineer’s Impact

  • Utilize data engineering best practices to engineer a modern unified ETL/ELT data pipeline to collect, organize, process, and prepare data from multiple sources
  • Build data architecture for ingestion, processing, and surfacing of data for large-scale applications
  • Manage the addition of new games into the data pipeline ensuring that new data conforms to the existing data model
  • Build and maintain a unified analytical reporting layer to serve all levels and needs of the business from executive leadership to frontline analysts
  • Interface with business users and engineering teams to bridge the gap in terms of data needs and business term/logic understanding
  • Propose innovations where opportunities arise to meet the needs of stakeholders
  • Leverage industry best practices in establishing repeatable BI practices, principles & processes
  • Research and discover new methods to acquire data, and new applications for existing data

Your Track Record Includes

  • 3-5+ years relevant experience; Fields of study in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Mathematics or commensurate experience required
  • Experience building business intelligence solutions (data warehouse, data mart, ETL, Reports)
  • Experience preparing data for Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Proven experience in data modelling; solid understanding of database concepts
  • Experience with a large cloud based data analytics and reporting platform
  • Ability to learn to navigate our Azure instance and can learn to work with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer, and Azure Blob Storage
  • Experience in implementing GDPR policies a plus
  • Solid experience in setting up data for use in Power BI is a plus

Compensation package

  • Competitive salary
  • Extraordinary incentive plan
  • Extended health, dental & vision benefits + a health & wellness spending account
  • 3 weeks vacation + 10 paid personal/sick days per year
  • Annual self development budget to attend conferences, courses, training – you name it!

Our Core Values

  • We Are Bold
  • We Are One Team
  • We Are Player-First
  • We Are Creative
  • We Are Transparent
  • We Are Futuristic

What We’re Building at Hyper Hippo Entertainment

Hyper Hippo is an award-winning entertainment studio, driven to entertain, connect, and inspire billions of fans around the world.

Founded in 2012, by the creator of Club Penguin, Lance Priebe, Hyper Hippo is the studio behind the smash-hit idle games, AdVenture Capitalist (with 50+ million players), and AdVenture Communist - a cult mobile hit.

Headquartered in Canada, with studios in Kelowna, Vancouver and Seattle, Hyper Hippo brings together an exceptionally creative team that is relentlessly focused on innovating and exploring new forms of entertainment.