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Senior Data Developer – Dead by Daylight

Montreal, Quebec
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

The role

Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge video game development? Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour Interactive is at the forefront of the gaming industry, crafting unforgettable experiences across PC, console, and mobile platforms. We’re a dynamic, independent studio of over 1200 passionate employees, with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) and in the UK (Behaviour UK–North & South). Our day to day revolves around two core business focuses: Services and Original Games. Our Services team collaborates with gaming and entertainment giants like Disney, Sony, Activision, and Nintendo, delivering exceptional work-for-hire development and pioneering immersive location-based entertainment (LBE). Meanwhile, our Original Games unit pushes our creative limits, with our signature IPs, including the iconic Dead by Daylight . Join us and be a part of the future of interactive entertainment!

At Behaviour Interactive, we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. We embrace a diverse and creative environment where everyone is celebrated. We value folks of all ages, sex, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, civil status, disability, or any other protected characteristics as per applicable law. Behaviour is looking for a talented Senior Data Developer who will be improving our data pipelines to support an increasing volume of data and an expanding number of data users.

The Data Developer we’re looking for must be a quick learner and, not scared of challenging the current processes in place. They must know how to organize workloads efficiently to balance live operations and development. The ideal candidate has expertise in documenting processes, best practices, and platform usage guidelines to ensure clarity and effective knowledge sharing within the team.

This is a senior position, so we are specifically seeking someone who can bring their past experience to the table and elevate our team’s ability to efficiently handle the data for our games.

In this role you will :

  • Using advanced SQL and Data Build Tools (dbt) on Snowflake, develop and improve the current data models to support the analysts, and user researchers for the game Dead By Daylight;
  • Keep up to date and use best practices in testing, security, cost monitoring, performance monitoring and effective use of resources;
  • Promote best practices and ensure consistency across games;
  • Using Python and Airflow, develop and improve the current toolsets that support the main game data pipeline and gather secondary data;
  • Oversee various data project encompassing different area of expertise (data development, data analysis...);
  • Help junior team members thrive and grow.

What we're looking for :

  • Training in data development, business intelligence, software development or related fields;
  • At least 6 years of experience in data modeling involving complex SQL transformation on large data set (including experience with cloud databases, Snowflake preferred);
  • The equivalent experience developing Python and SQL-based ETL scripts suitable for production environment and utilizing a pipeline scheduler;
  • Experience in implementing data governance best practices;
  • Experience with Snowflake, DBT, and Airflow;
  • Experience with cloud services (AWS or others) is an asset;

About Behaviour Interactive

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Behaviour Interactive is the largest Canadian gaming studio, with more than 1,300 employees worldwide. Behaviour is best known for its flagship franchise, the multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight™, which has entertained over 60 million players across multiple platforms. The studio is currently expanding its portfolio of original IP with multiple projects. Behaviour has also established itself as one of the world’s foremost providers of external development services. The company has partnered with many of the gaming industry’s leaders, including Microsoft, Sony, EA, Warner, Netflix, and Take-Two, among many others. Over 30 years, Behaviour has developed an unparalleled, award-winning culture. The company was named one of the Best Places To Work in Canada by GamesIndustry.biz, and has been recognized with Deloitte Canada’s Enterprise Fast 15 and Best Managed Company awards. Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour has expanded its global presence with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Seattle (Midwinter Entertainment), and the United Kingdom (Behaviour UK – North and Behaviour UK – South) and in Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam). For more information, visit www.bhvr.com.