ABOUT BALOR GAMES
Balor Games is a "Triple I" independent game publisher dedicated to long-term stewardship of high-quality creative works. Formed by former leaders of Humble Games, Balor Games oversees an expansive catalog of acclaimed indie games, following the acquisition of the Humble Games and Firestoke catalogs.
Balor Games aims to serve as a cultural curator for independent games, while providing expertise, resources, and belief-driven support to visionary developers.
Contractor Engagement Brief
Engagement: Senior Analytics Engineer (Contract)
Engagement Type: Independent contractor (1099 or corp-to-corp); fixed-term project engagement
Term: 6 months from start date, with option to extend by mutual written agreement
Rate: $10,400 - $13,900 per month, depending on experience
Estimated Commitment: Approximately 40 hours per week
Location: Remote (US-based). Availability required for at least four hours of overlap with US Pacific business hours on working days
Engagement Lead: VP, Data & Analytics (primary point of contact and deliverable sign-off)
Engagement Overview
Balor Games is engaging a Senior Analytics Engineer on a six-month contract to deliver three defined bodies of work: a Snowflake data architecture that scales with our growth, agentic automation of routine finance data processes, and a secure, governed Tableau reporting layer. The contractor will own the technical delivery of these projects end to end, coordinating with finance and publishing leads for requirements, data access, and acceptance of deliverables.
This is a hands-on engagement for an experienced practitioner who is comfortable with finance data (revenue, fees, taxes, refunds, royalties, and reconciliations) and can deliver documented, production-ready work within the term. The ideal contractor builds end-to-end pipelines that turn ingested data into actionable reporting and applies disciplined data engineering practices when building AI-assisted tooling.
Scope of Work
- Refactor Snowflake pipelines to scale with business growth, building data models that support game and platform growth and improved master data management
- Build new ingestion pipelines for marketing metrics and join them to sales data, with data quality checks and monitoring
- Build agent-assisted workflows for month-end close, developer payments, recoup tracking, and seller statement validation
- Reconcile warehouse data to platform and partner statements and flag exceptions for human review
- Add row- and column-level permissioning across the Tableau dashboard suite using a single governed entitlement source
Deliverables
A milestone schedule with acceptance criteria will be agreed in the Statement of Work during the first two weeks of the engagement. Expected deliverables include:
- Refactored Snowflake data models and master data management framework, deployed to production with documentation
- Marketing data ingestion pipelines joined to sales data, with automated data quality checks and monitoring in place
- Agent-assisted finance workflows (month-end close, developer payments, recoup tracking, seller statement validation) with evaluation, logging, and human-in-the-loop controls
- Reconciliation framework comparing warehouse data to platform and partner statements, with exception reporting
- Governed entitlement model and row- and column-level security applied across the Tableau dashboard suite
- Handover documentation and knowledge transfer sessions sufficient for the Balor Games team to operate and maintain all delivered work
Required Experience
- 5+ years of analytics or data engineering experience, including significant hands-on work in Snowflake (Snowflake Scripting or stored procedures, tasks, dependencies, and streams)
- Strong SQL (window functions, CTEs, performance tuning) and Python for pipelines, API integrations, and data validation
- Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2) or equivalent cloud services
- Experience building ingestion for many heterogeneous…