Data Engineer

Overview

Placement Type : Temporary

Salary : $57-62 Hourly

Start Date : Dec 15, 2025

This will be a US-Based remote position that starts as a 6 month contract but could extend up to 18 months.

Join a world-renowned leader in interactive entertainment, a company celebrated for creating beloved experiences that captivate millions globally. As a valued partner to this innovative organization, Aquent is seeking a visionary professional to join their dynamic data and analytics team. This is an extraordinary opportunity to be at the forefront of transforming vast datasets into strategic insights, directly influencing the evolution of highly popular interactive titles and shaping the future of player engagement. Your work will empower data-driven decisions that enhance user experiences and drive innovation within a passionate community.

In this pivotal role, you will act as an architect of our data-driven future, combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of business needs. You will be instrumental in delivering solutions that convert raw gaming data into actionable insights and innovative data products. Your contributions will involve building robust pipelines, crafting well-designed data models, and developing cutting-edge data products that yield significant outcomes. You will champion security, data quality, reliability, and usability, ensuring stakeholders have complete confidence in the solutions you provide. Collaboration is key, as you'll work closely with data scientists, analysts, data engineers, game teams, and various stakeholders, all moving at the pace of our business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop subject matter expertise in business and data domains to effectively collaborate with data consumers and stakeholders, understanding their information needs and facilitating data access.
• Identify and analyze multi-structured data and metadata from diverse sources, ensuring the selection and documentation of the most accurate and effective data for analytical requirements.
• Design scalable data models, architect dataflows, and create abstractions for analytics and machine learning solutions, ensuring adaptability to evolving needs.
• Utilize modern data engineering practices and frameworks with an object-oriented approach to architect, build, and maintain automated data pipelines that transform data into clean, enriched, and accurate information.
• Advance our data infrastructure by developing frameworks, reusable components, and new capabilities to achieve strategic objectives.
• Engage in significant user interfacing, requirements gathering, and data analysis (approximately 30% of time).
• Dedicate a substantial portion of your time to coding, focusing on data transformation (70% of coding time) and infrastructure development (30% of coding time).
• Maintain a high level of interaction with sponsors and team members, fostering a collaborative environment.

Must-Have Qualifications

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.