Senior Data Engineer in London

The opportunity to lead the design and implementation of our business-critical data platform. This is a high autonomy role, embedded in a team of senior software and data engineers, collaborating on the data platform problem and solution space.

Responsibilities include:

• Translating complex, ambiguous requirements into resilient data engineering architecture designs.
• Partnering with stakeholders, defining the problem space, pitching technical solutions, and owning them through to production.
• Identifying data bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
• Pitching and delivering architectural improvements.
• Influencing the roadmap towards technical excellence in data engineering.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals applied to data.
• Expertise working with data streaming technologies such as Kafka and Flink.
• Autonomous and effective in a team setting.
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders and translating their needs to technical requirements for team-wide delivery.

Additional information:

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits:

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance. Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status. While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
• Commute subsidy.
• Employee stock ownership.
• Competitive retirement/pension plans.
• Generous vacation and personal days.
• Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs.
• Office food snacks.
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support.
• Employee Resource Groups.
• Global Employee Assistance Program.
• Training and development programs.
• Volunteering and donation matching program.

Life at Unity:

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.