Data Engineer / Analyst

Dovetail Games; Chatham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A video game development company in the UK is seeking a data-focused analyst to enhance data quality and deliver insights for gameplay and business decisions. This role offers the flexibility to work remotely or hybrid, with a focus on building effective data pipelines, creating dashboards, and collaborating with teams to improve player engagement. Ideal candidates have strong SQL skills and a passion for gaming.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Collaborative team environment

Access to latest tools and tech

Company funded away days

Qualifications

• Familiar with building and managing scalable data pipelines.
• Skilled in creating insightful dashboards and visual reports.
• Strong command of SQL for querying complex datasets.
• Interest in gaming and understanding of player behaviour.

Responsibilities

• Assist in optimizing data pipelines for collecting and analyzing data.
• Contribute to data models ensuring accuracy and reliability.
• Design and maintain reports and dashboards for insights.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to identify trends in player engagement.
• Collaborate with developers to align in-game tracking with operational needs.

Skills

Databricks

Tableau Desktop

SQL

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

data analysis

Job description

We are looking for a data-focused analyst to build reliable pipelines, enhance data quality, and deliver actionable insights that drive better gameplay and business decisions.

Why Join Us?

We’re passionate about creating great games — and building a workplace where everyone can thrive. This role offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact, work with brilliant people, and see your insights directly influence how we grow and market our titles.

Dovetail Games are committed to promoting diversity, and all applicants will be considered on their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent regardless of any protected characteristics. At the individuals request, all roles will be considered for part time, term time only and job shares.

With a huge emphasis on our culture and wellbeing you’ll experience an environment where you will be challenged but supported. We have an industry leading work life balance and flexible working is offered from day one! Want to work fullyUK based remote as that’s where you do your best work? That is fine by us, though certain roles will require a more hybrid style with time in the office.

What you’ll get from us!

• Work where you work best –UK Based Remote, Hybrid or in Office? You choose!

• 37.5 hour working week with true flexible working

• Collaborative, supportive team environment

• Access to the latest tools & tech

• Company funded away days and team building

• Opportunity to grow and work on much loved titles

• Competitive salary and benefits

https://careers.dovetailgames.com/benefits

• Data Project & Workflow Build: Assist in setting up and optimizing data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to collect, process, and analyse data from diverse sources, including in-game telemetry, sales, marketing, and social media platforms.

• Data Modelling & Data Quality: Contribute to the development of data models and help ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability to support effective decision-making by game analysts and business stakeholders.

• Reporting & Visualization: Design and maintenance of reports, dashboards, and visualizations that provide actionable insights across teams.

• Data Mining & Gameplay Analysis: Perform exploratory data analysis across game systems to identify trends and potential friction points in player engagement, helping to inform design and product decisions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with gameplay developers and production stakeholders to ensure in-gametracking plans aligns with analytical and operational needs.

What we look for in you:

• Familiar with Databricks for building and managing scalable data pipelines and analytics workflows

• Skilled in using Tableau Desktop to create clear, insightful dashboards and visual reports for stakeholders

• Strong command of SQL, with hands‑on experience querying large, complex datasets to extract actionable insights

• Familiar with AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including working with BigQuery and Redshift as data sources

• A strong interest or passion for gaming, with a good understanding of player behaviour and game mechanics

• Highly self‑motivated with excellent organizational, and communication skills - both verbal and written