Senior Data Architect

#LI-Onsite

Who We Are

THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION in Austin TX

2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). 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 responsible for developing 2Ks portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms include Visual Concepts Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber 31st Union HB Studios and 2K SportsLab. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in todays 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 thinkers and doers are the professional publishing stewards of 2Ks portfolio currently includes several AAA sports and entertainment brands including global powerhouse NBA 2K renowned BioShock Borderlands Mafia Sid Meiers Civilization and XCOM brands; popular WWE 2K and WWE SuperCard franchises TopSpin 2K25 as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR 2K.

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 encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions even if they dont meet every requirement for the role. If youre interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K we encourage you to apply!

What you need

• 7 years working with data governance platforms (Collibra Informatica Axon DataHub) and enterprise governance operating models.
• 5 years designing data architectures and data models for analytics/ML.
• Proven experience delivering data quality lineage and metadata management at scale.
• Bachelors or Masters in Engineering Computer Science Mathematics or related field.
• Deep expertise in data modeling (Kimball Inmon Data Vault).
• Strong Python skills including structured project design and APIs/services with Flask.
• Expert SQL across Snowflake and Databricks.
• Hands-on experience with big data and orchestration tools (Hive Spark Airflow).
• Streaming technologies experience (Kafka or Kinesis).
• Practical Databricks capabilities (Unity Catalog Delta Lake MLflow) and solid MLOps practices (CI/CD model registry monitoring).
• Cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with strong AWS exposure preferred.
• Robust automated testing for data pipelines (unit/integration).
• Strong knowledge of privacy regulatory and audit frameworks (GDPR CCPA COPPA SOX).
• Experience in regulated/high-compliance industries (Gaming Finance Healthcare).
• Excellent stakeholder management problem-solving and cross-functional communication with the ability to influence without authority.

What you will do

Technology Architecture & Platforms

• Evolve our lakehouse/analytics reference architecture across AWS Snowflake and Databricks (Delta Lake Unity Catalog) for scale cost and reliability.
• Standardize Databricks workspacescluster policies repos/CI/CD secrets cost guardrails and operational SLAs.
• Implement MLOps with MLflow a feature store versioned data/code automated CI/CD and model promotion/rollback across environments.
• Enforce security-by-defaultIAM/SSO RBAC encryption tokenization and PII protection across platforms.
• Build reliable ingestion transformation and services (Python/Flask Spark Airflow/Databricks Jobs) with tests observability and SLAs.
• Integrate data/ML platforms with game analytics CDP personalization and real-time streams via Kafka/Kinesis; coach teams on best practices.

Data Trust & Governance

• Establish enterprise policies standards ownership/stewardship and decision forums; drive adoption through enablement and training.
• Define classification retention and lifecycle; enforce RBAC and encryption for sensitive player data.
• Operate metadata and catalog (DataHub/Atlan/Informatica) to deliver endtoend lineage impact analysis and discoverability.
  Align key metrics definitions and a central glossary across studios; publish and maintain canonical KPIs.
• Implement data quality rules with profiling monitoring and remediation workflows governed by SLAs.
• Ensure GDPR/CCPA/COPPA/SOX compliance; operationalize DSAR/RighttobeForgotten and partner with Legal/Security on audits and risk.

Data Modeling

• Lead conceptual logical and physical models for player gameplay commerce and marketing; select Kimball/Inmon/Hybrid as appropriate.
• Deliver performant star schemas conformed dimensions SCDs and data contracts in Snowflake/Databricks; govern naming versioning and lineage.

As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform their essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing only use accounts.

Required Experience:

Senior IC