Senior Data Analyst

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios are responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms. Include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building, and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire millions of players around the world! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, problem solvers, and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California, and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

Position Summary

With the growth of our video gaming titles, we need to examine how Testing and Deployment Coordination can impact game development more. We are looking for a passionate Senior Analyst to work in our growing data insights group. The ideal candidate is one that has a passion for developing stories out of data that empowers our business leaders to reach well-grounded conclusions. The role will help guide and grow our team as we blend project data, test analytics, and game data together to tell those stories. 

Primary Responsibilities

●      Analyze data from multiple domains to understand data sources and develop metrics, documentation, and reporting to enable improvements across our data repositories, data definitions, data integrity and data quality.

●      Acts as a lead on routine projects, being able to estimate, break down work items and outline risks to project work across the Data Analytics team.

●      Build and Improve upon our reporting infrastructure through creating and improving robust data models that can be the basis for our data reporting and dashboard development.

●      Establish standard methodology and best practices in our pipelines, reports and dashboards used by Quality Assurance and Release Management 

●      Drive strong reporting standards with our team’s technical and non-technical partners across 2K.

●      Partner with our stakeholders and peers across the company on how we use their data to inform Quality Assurance and Release Management decisions.

Required Qualifications, Knowledge, and Job-Related Skills

●      Educational background in Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering (or in another quantitative subject area).

●      4-6+ years of professional analytics experience performing data analysis and managing data quality.

●      Advanced SQL (any variant) - proficient at writing code efficiently and easy to read and follow, with experience working in a professional environment.

●      Strong working knowledge of R or Python languages.

●      Have technical experience in building reporting data models and be able to establish standard methodologies around their design and maintenance.

●      Experience creating visual reporting using BI tools (Tableau experience strongly preferred).

Core Competencies

●      Consistent record of delivering solutions focused on understanding how the data impacts the business, the ability to resolve best methodologies, and improves team members ability to deliver finding and stories.

●      Strong data-storytelling and presentation skills, demonstrating the understanding of the business context and can present complex data in a manner to executives, so they can make informed decisions.

●      Strong collaborator leadership skills - Skilled at proactively communicating and maintaining follow-up with a variety of different partners.  

●      Self-motivated mentality and the ability to work independently and on numerous projects at the same time, with urgency of delivery, and mentors team members grow to the same level of skill and increase velocity of work

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee; other tasks and duties may be assigned or reassigned as needed.

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