Senior Analytics Engineer

Balor Games

13h • $10,400 - $13,900 • Remote

About The Position

Balor Games is engaging a Senior Analytics Engineer as an independent contractor for a six-month project, with an option to extend by mutual written agreement. The contractor will own end-to-end technical delivery of three workstreams: scaling Snowflake data architecture, automating routine finance processes with agent-assisted workflows, and creating a secure, governed Tableau reporting layer. The work involves coordinating with finance and publishing leads on requirements, data access, and deliverable acceptance.

The engagement is remote and US-based, with approximately 40 hours of work per week and at least four hours of overlap with US Pacific business hours on working days. The contractor determines the methods, tools, and working schedule, subject to the agreed overlap window and delivery dates. The contractor supplies their own equipment and workspace; Balor Games will provide access to required systems. Compensation is $10,400–$13,900 per month, depending on experience. The contractor is responsible for their own taxes, insurance, and benefits. Hours are billed in quarter-hour increments, and hours above the monthly cap require prior written approval. Either party may terminate the engagement on 14 days’ written notice.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of analytics or data engineering experience, including significant hands-on Snowflake work with Snowflake Scripting or stored procedures, tasks, dependencies, and streams.
• Strong SQL skills, including window functions, common table expressions, and performance tuning.
• Python experience for pipelines, API integrations, and data validation.
• Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2) or equivalent cloud services.
• Experience building ingestion for heterogeneous sources, including REST APIs, flat files and S3 drops, Fivetran or similar connectors, and scraped or semi-structured data.
• Experience designing warehouses that accommodate new business units or acquired data sets, including master data and entity mapping.
• Practical production experience building automation with LLMs or agent frameworks, including evaluation, logging, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Experience building and publishing Tableau dashboards for business and finance audiences.
• Hands-on experience administering Tableau Server or Cloud and implementing row- and column-level security, including user filters, entitlement tables, and data-source permissions.
• Strong attention to detail and an instinct for checking numbers against an independent source.
• A demonstrated track record of delivering independently on fixed-term engagements with evolving requirements and priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Games industry experience working with platform sales data, such as PlayStation Partners, Xbox, or Nintendo Developer Portal.
• Experience with marketing data sources such as advertising platforms or Steam wishlist and traffic data.
• Prior contract or consulting work with small, fast-moving companies.

Responsibilities

• Refactor Snowflake pipelines and build scalable data models that support business and game-platform growth and improved master data management.
• Build marketing data ingestion pipelines, join marketing data to sales data, and implement data quality checks and monitoring.
• Build agent-assisted workflows for month-end close, developer payments, recoup tracking, and seller statement validation, including evaluation, logging, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Reconcile warehouse data against platform and partner statements and flag exceptions for human review.
• Implement a governed entitlement model and row- and column-level permissions across the Tableau dashboard suite.
• Deliver production-ready work with documentation, including handover documentation and knowledge-transfer sessions so the Balor Games team can operate and maintain the deliverables.
• Coordinate with finance and publishing leads on requirements, data access, and acceptance of deliverables.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed