The Road to DataEngineer Enlightenment
In this role, you will be responsible for providing accurate, timely, reliable, and ultimately useful data to the analytics group. This mandate involves everything from the discovery, access, and integration of source data into the ecosystem to guaranteeing its health and robustness within that ecosystem to modeling and presenting that data in a manner that allows stakeholders within the ecosystem to perform their duties effectively.
You will have a delicate balance in this role: you work most closely with the other members of your group and translate their needs into agile, highly-customized implementations for franchise-specific data; at the same time, though, you work just as closely with the Core Data team both to ensure that your group does not introduce problematic deviations from core data and that the core data infrastructure itself is supporting your group’s evolving needs;
you are just as closely tied to the Tools and Technology team to ensure that your franchise-specific system usage is “playing nice, playing fair” within the greater analytical data ecosystem. You are one step closer to the business needs of the stakeholders and act as the primary technical resource for the franchise analytics team. Your priority is to ensure that the Analytics groups can provide best-in-class analyses, insights, and recommendations in the most timely and effective manner possible.
Our ideal candidate is the druid of the analytics space: a powerful technologist whose dedication to the craft allows him or her to morph into whatever form necessary to get the job done while retaining the flexibility to see the bigger picture and respond accordingly.
The ideal candidate uses the speed, agility, and targeted on-point damage of Cat form to meet the quick-shifting, high-impact immediate needs of his or her franchise group before morphing seamlessly into a Bear form, responsible for tanking the ongoing operational needs of the group as a whole.
A shift to Moonkin allows for the push-and-pull flow of ideas between Blizzard Analytics and Core; and the final shift to Tree provides the stability and integration between the franchise group and the other users, approaches, policies, and procedures of the overall analytical data ecosystem.