Senior Manager Cloud Data Platform

Scopely is seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager Cloud Data Platform to join our Playgami team in Barcelona on a hybrid basis!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to encourage play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people worldwide daily.

Playgami is building the best SaaS gaming platform ever! The team strives to build the world’s best products for game production, operation, and insights. Powering many award-winning, loved-by-millions franchise games over mobile, web, and PC.

This is a technical leadership role focused on platform ownership, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. You will lead a team responsible for the infrastructure and tooling around our data warehouse and ensure the platform enables teams to move fast while maintaining high standards of quality, cost control, and security.

• →Own the architecture, reliability, and performance of the cloud data platform built on GCP
• →Manage and mentor a team of data platform engineers
• →Ensure the scalability and stability of core components, including BigQuery, DBT, Composer (Airflow), and Looker
• →Define and implement best practices for infrastructure as code using Terraform
• →Act as the owner of platform administration (tool admin) across the data stack, ensuring proper configuration, access, and lifecycle management
• →Enforce data access and permission models in alignment with Data Governance policies, ensuring secure and compliant usage of data
• →Monitor platform performance and reliability, defining how tools are observed, measured, and improved over time
• →Optimize cost and performance across the platform, especially in BigQuery and orchestration workloads
• →Define and promote best practices across the data platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, and maintainability
• →Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response processes
• →Drive platform standardization and reduce fragmentation across tools and workflows
• →Partner with data engineering, analytics, and governance teams to ensure the platform meets their needs
• →Ensure strong security and access controls in collaboration with Security and Governance teams
• →Lead the evaluation and adoption of new tools and technologies when needed
• →Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies

• Cloud infrastructure in GCP
• Data warehouse, BigQuery
• Transformation layer, DBT
• Orchestration, GCP Composer (Airflow)
• BI and semantic layer, Looker
• Infrastructure as code, Terraform
• Monitoring, logging, performance, and cost management tooling
• Access management and permissions model across the data platform

• 6 to 10 years of experience in data platform, data engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
• 2+ years of experience managing or mentoring engineers
• Strong experience with GCP, especially BigQuery and IAM
• Solid understanding of modern data stack tools such as DBT and Airflow
• Experience managing infrastructure through Terraform or similar tools
• Good understanding of data platform reliability, scalability, and cost optimization
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes
• Ability to balance technical depth with team leadership and stakeholder collaboration
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical teams

• Experience with Looker or similar BI tools
• Familiarity with data governance and security best practices
• Experience in high-scale environments with large data volumes
• Background in gaming, tech, or fast-growing product companies

At Scopely, we create games for everyone, and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us and embrace the adventure!

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/. 

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