Team Lead, Data Technology & Platforms

Who We Are

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 2K’s 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 today’s 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 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA®️ 2K, renowned BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s 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 don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

What We Need

The Team Lead, Data Technology & Platforms is a pivotal leadership role responsible for managing a specialized group of engineers dedicated to the foundational architecture of 2K’s data ecosystem. Overseeing four critical pillars—Platform Architecture, DataOps, MLOps, and Data Quality—this role harmonizes these disciplines to create a seamless, self-service data environment. The Team Lead ensures that 2K’s studios and data scientists can efficiently move from raw telemetry to actionable insights, aligning technical strategy with the organization's global strategic goals.

What You Will Do

• Technical Roadmap & Vision: Define and execute the technical strategy for 2K’s data stack (Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow). Ensure platform scalability, operational reliability, and model deployment speeds support global requirements.
• Engineering Excellence: Establish and enforce rigorous standards for code quality, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and automated testing across all sub-disciplines.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Serve as the primary liaison between Data Engineering, Data Science, and Game Studio stakeholders to ensure the platform meets the needs of diverse internal customers.
• People Leadership: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of approximately 7 specialists. Foster a culture of accountability and professional growth while driving technical innovation.
• Operational Stewardship: Oversee the reliability of the entire data lifecycle. Lead incident response for critical platform outages and ensure root cause analyses (RCAs) drive structural system improvements.
• Resource & FinOps Management: Optimize cloud expenditure across AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks, balancing high-performance requirements with cost-efficient infrastructure design.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit

• Systems Thinking: Understands the interconnected nature of the data platform, quality checks, and MLOps, managing how changes in one area impact the broader ecosystem.
• Strategic Prioritization: Balances the management of technical debt with the delivery of high-value features aligned with major game launches.
• Guardian of Trust: Relentless focus on data integrity and security (GDPR/CCPA), ensuring the platform remains both secure and performant.
• Leadership & Development: Proven ability to build and lead multidisciplinary teams, driving both technical results and employee engagement.
• Effective Communication: Translates complex infrastructure challenges into clear business impact for leadership and studio partners.

Required Qualifications, Knowledge, and Job-Related Skills

• Experience: 7+ years in Data Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, including 2+ years in a formal management or leadership capacity overseeing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Architectural Mastery: Deep technical knowledge of the modern data stack, including Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS S3/Data Lakes.
• Operational Fluency: Demonstrated experience implementing DataOps or MLOps frameworks at scale, including CI/CD for data and model-drift monitoring.
• Software Rigor: Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL with the ability to perform deep-dive code reviews across different engineering domains.
• Orchestration Mastery: Advanced experience with Apache Airflow or similar enterprise-grade orchestration tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience managing high-velocity telemetry data from live-service gaming environments.
• Experience building "Data-as-a-Service" or self-service analytics platforms.
• Advanced professional certifications in AWS, Databricks, or Snowflake.

What we offer you:

• Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
• Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
• Work Hard, Enjoy Life. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles – through corporate boot camp classes, company parties, our Office gaming spaces, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
• Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to; Discretionary bonus, Provident fund contributions, 1+5 medical insurance + top up options and access to Practo online Doctor consultation App, Employee assistance program, 3X CTC Life Assurance, 3X CTC Personal accident insurance, childcare services, 20 days holiday + statutory holidays,
• Perks. Gym reimbursement up to INR1150 per month, wellbeing program with the chance to earn up to $93 per annum, charitable giving program, access to learning platforms, employee discount program’s plus free games and events!

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 2K.com accounts.

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Manage and mentor a team of 3 direct reports. Define and drive company-wide data quality strategy and best practices. Establish and enforce SLAs, KPIs, and monitoring frameworks. Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated data validation checks. Partner with game developers and backend engineers for accurate instrumentation. Lead investigations into complex data issues and schema drift. Support data governance initiatives and privacy regulations. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related technical field. Extensive experience in data engineering or data quality, including prior management/lead capacity. Expert-level SQL skills with large-scale, event-driven data. Strong proficiency with data pipeline and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark). Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable data validation and monitoring. Experience in gaming industry or high-volume live-service preferred. Familiarity with data observability tools (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo) preferred. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, GCP, or Azure) preferred. Knowledge of player behavior analytics and experimentation (A/B testing) preferred.