San Diego Studio Data Analyst

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San Diego Studio Data Analyst 

PlayStation - San Diego Studio, San Diego, CA

Are you an expert in all things data? Are you a fan of baseball and MLB The Show? Would you enjoy supporting the development efforts of games used by passionate loyalists around the world? Does a career opportunity influencing the most successful gaming platform of all time interest you? 

Our San Diego Studio team seeks a Data Analyst to provide insights and analysis of gameplay and user behavior. Here, you will work in our cross-disciplinary team to conduct in depth analyses, query data, build dashboards, and tell compelling stories to help our game development teams to make informed decisions and improve player experiences. You will have the ability to create data driven narratives that will be used to grow our studio culture. If this is you, you need to come and play with us here at Sony PlayStation!

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a variety of ad hoc data analyses 
• Effectively communicate with other teams, and tell stories with data through reports, Tableau dashboards or other means
• Mine data sets and develop reports for live service teams, game developers and executives
• Build and maintain actionable visualizations of gameplay and user behavior
• Peer review SQL queries for errors and optimization 
• QA telemetry implementation to ensure data from gameplay is posting accurately 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 2 year experience analyzing large complex data sets
• Strong ability to query large, robust data sets with SQL
• Experience with data visualization packages, such as Tableau or Power BI 
• Experience playing MLB The Show, preferably the Diamond Dynasty mode
• Ability to …