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NBCUniversal · 1 day ago

Senior Staff Data Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$150K/yr - $185K/yr

10+ years exp

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to join their Data Management and BI Team. The role focuses on building data pipelines and applications that support business partners’ strategic decision-making, leveraging various technologies including AWS and open-source tools.

BroadcastingMedia and EntertainmentNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Designs, builds, and oversees the deployment and operation of technology architecture, solutions and software to capture, manage, store, and utilize structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources

Contributor to the overall Data Product roadmap by working closely with our business partners to understand their challenges and develop analytical tools to help drive business decisions

Develops technical tools and programming that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize and transform data and to maintain, defend and update data structures and integrity on an automated basis

Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies (Big Data, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Python, Spark etc)

Creates and establishes design standards and assurance processes for software, systems, and applications development to ensure compatibility and operability of data connections, flow,s and storage requirements

Reviews internal and external business and product requirements for data operations and activity and suggests changes and upgrades to systems and storage to accommodate ongoing needs

Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate deployment, testing, and monitoring of applications

Implement and manage serverless solutions (e.g., AWS Lambda, EMR Serverless, Kafka, SNS, SQS, Athena etc.) as part of the application architecture

Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar to manage cloud infrastructure

Work with development teams to set up automated testing frameworks, ensuring high test coverage and code quality

Must understand the basics of relational data modeling and be able to clearly articulate the reasons for using to non-relational systems in our architecture. Experience in desired but relevant experience in any of the following is acceptable: Singlestore, MySQL, Redshift, Athena, MSSQL Server, Oracle

Decent understanding for the digital media ad sales business and ad serving technologies with experience working with ad serving transactional data logs or Nielsen demographic data

Educate and inform business partners on architecture, capabilities, best practices and solutions to build out future enhancements

Assist in analyzing business requirements, source systems, understand underlying data sources, transformation requirements, data mapping, data model and metadata for reporting solutions

Writing easily understood documentation and architecture diagrams and keeping them up to date as code and frameworks change over time

Qualification

Data ModelingAWS technologiesCI/CD pipelinesPythonData architectureData QualityETLData WarehouseSQLLinuxMicroStrategyTableauScalaPandasAnalytical focusProblem-solvingCommunication skillsTeam collaborationFlexibilitySelf-driven

Required

Strong Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems background

10+ Years of Experience in Data Modeling, Data architecture, Data Quality, Metadata, ETL, and Data Warehouse methodologies and technologies

5+ years experience with AWS technologies

Strong experience using Python and Pandas in an AWS Lambda framework is highly desired. Experience using EMR and/or DataBricks or the ability to read EMR code and translate it into Lambdas

Proven experience (3+ years) in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions

Demonstrated experience with Python, APIs, Spark, and Scala

Experience with advanced SQL, Linux, MicroStrategy, Tableau, and Pandas

Strong problem-solving skills

Strong oral and written communication and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate new concepts and drive change in processes and behaviors and to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field with 10+ years of relevant experience

Preferred

1+ years in Digital Media Publisher Industry with a solid understanding of Digital Research

Experience with various digital platforms such as Omniture (Site Catalyst), Rentrak, comScore, Operative One, Google DoubleClick, Freewheel, Ad-Juster, MOAT, Nielsen, Facebook, Twitter, etc

Understanding of how to manage code in the Enterprise Git repository with appropriate branching and documentation skills

Ability to design optimized, performant, and visually appealing reports, user interfaces, mockups, and documentation

Ability to read external API documentation and write pipelines to extract data from our partners' systems

Ability to write and stand up internal API endpoints to share data with other internal teams

Strong analytical focus, results-oriented, and execution driven

Ability and desire to work within a cross-functional team environment with people from multiple business units, vendors, countries, and cultures

Self-driven/self-initiator and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as in teams and promotes an open flow of information so that all stakeholders are well informed

Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules, and priorities

Ability to work independently under minimum supervision and be proactive in solving issues

Energetic, committed, and solution-focused with the ability to perform under pressure and meet targets

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

A variety of other discounts and perks

Company

NBCUniversal

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NBCUniversal is a media company that provides entertainment and news development, production, distribution, and marketing services. It is a sub-organization of Comcast.

Founded in 1912

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.nbcuniversal.com/

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