Engineering Manager, Data Platforms

United States, San Diego, CA

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We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our foundational data platforms — Data Ocean (our next-gen Data Lakehouse) and Databricks platform. These platforms are used by a wide range of personas across Playstation — including data engineers, analysts, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and product teams — and are critical to enabling data-driven decision-making, AI/ML, and scalable insights across the PlayStation ecosystem.

In this role, you will lead a talented engineering team focused on building secure, performant, and scalable next gen platforms. You’ll partner closely with platform product managers, Data Engineering, architecture, governance, and business teams to ensure the platform evolves to meet PlayStation’s growing data needs.


 What You Will Do:

  • Lead Platform Development – Own the end-to-end engineering Data platform, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and extensibility. 

  • Set Technical Direction – Define architectural strategies aligned with PlayStation’s long-term data vision. 

  • Manage and Grow a High-Performing Team – Foster an engineering culture centered around quality, innovation, and ownership. 

  • Support Broad Use Cases – Enable data access and scalability for a range of use cases across analytics, machine learning, and operational workloads. 

  • Promote Engineering Best Practices – Champion platform engineering, infrastructure automation, observability, and security. 

  • Collaborate Across Teams – Partner with stakeholders across product, analytics, governance, and business functions to deliver cohesive solutions.
     

What We're Looking For:

  • 5+ years of experience in data platform or data engineering, with a strong focus on scalable, cloud-native infrastructure.

  • 3+ years in an engineering leadership role, driving execution and team development.

  • Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS,GCP) and services such as S3, Lambda, Glue catalog, Athena, and related infrastructure for data processing and orchestration. 

  • Exposure to real-time streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis, alongside batch processing systems is good to have. 

  • Hands-on experience with Databricks and modern data processing frameworks like Apache Spark. 

  • Exposure to data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery. 

  • Strong understanding of emerging data interoperability standards, including table formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta.

  • Proven ability to lead technical teams, set architectural direction, and align execution with business goals. 

  • Effective communicator capable of influencing across technical and non-technical audiences.

 

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

 

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$179,300 - $268,900 USD

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Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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