Game Data Analyst

Game Data Analyst

Location: Leamington Spa (Hybrid)

About The Role

We’re looking for an experienced, detail-oriented Data Analyst, who is passionate about data and driven by insights in the video games industry. You should be a strong collaborator and an excellent communicator, able to break down complex data and concepts in a clear and accessible way for a variety of audiences. You’ll be working closely with both commercial and development teams to analyse existing inbound data and offer insights for our existing and in-development games, helping to build analytical strategy for the products and contributing to their further success. You’ll connect with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, presenting clear, actionable analysis and insights that support decision‑making and business planning. This is a multifaceted role that includes responsibilities in in‑game player telemetry, financial forecasting and sales analytics.

Role Overview - key responsibilities

• Working with the VP of Technology, the VP of Marketing and the Commercial Director to define and evolve the analytics roadmap to support Secret Mode’s goals.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across departments (including Production, Marketing, Finance, and Development teams) to ensure that data is collected accurately, analysed effectively, and communicated clearly.
• Translating complex data findings into clear, actionable recommendations for non‑technical audiences and which include errors, limitations and uncertainties.
• Performing financial forecasting and performance modelling to support business planning.
• Working closely with engineering to ensure data pipelines and tracking systems are reliable and scalable.
• Building and maintaining dashboards, automated reporting and self‑service tools using platforms such as Databricks, Grafana, Fabric, Synapse, SQL, Python, and in‑house tools.

Skills and experience you need

• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a closely related discipline (highly desirable)
• Significant experience in data and business analysis, preferably in games, entertainment, or tech.
• Coding and scripting experience in at least one of Python, R, or Bash.
• Strong knowledge of statistical modelling, data analysis, graphing and visualisations.
• Industry experience of working with both Linux and Windows.
• Strong knowledge of a range of Databases (flatfile, relational, document, timeseries, etc).
• Proven experience using a range of ETL & ELT pipelines (dbt, Logstash, Python, Gitlab ci/cd, TeamCity, etc).
• Proficient in data querying tools and visualisation tools e.g. Athena, Tableau, PowerBI, Fabric, Grafana, SQL.
• Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to convey complex concepts to non‑technical people.

Skills and experience it would be great to have

• Video game industry experience, including knowledge of online game components and an understanding of player behaviour.
• Experience working with telemetry data from live service or multiplayer games.
• Familiarity with game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal) and telemetry tracking systems.
• Previous people management experience (but we’re open to supporting someone stepping into a management role for the first time).

Travel Requirements

This role requires you to be in our Leamington Spa studio for two days a week and may involve travel to events.

Please note that this role is only open to applicants who have the right to work in the UK. We are currently unable to offer sponsorship or consider applications from outside the UK.

Benefits

• Flexitime working hours
• Pension Scheme
• Benefits platform with company funded allowance which includes:
• Income Protection and Life cover
• Private Healthcare coverage
• Critical Illness
• Online GP

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