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NBCUniversal · 1 day ago

Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform Operations

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the Engineering & Automation pillar, focusing on designing and implementing scalable data architectures and driving automation through AI agents and self-service tooling.

BroadcastingMedia and EntertainmentNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership: Define partner onboarding and clean room architecture patterns across Snowflake, LiveRamp, and Databricks that are secure, scalable, and repeatable

Infrastructure Setup & Library Deployment: Configure and manage partner-specific clean room environments; deploy and manage Python-based libraries within the platform ecosystem

MLOps Integration: Establish and maintain MLOps practices, including model serving, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration for AI/ML features deployed within the platform ecosystem

Security & RBAC: Own design and enforcement of granular RBAC policies and least-privilege service accounts

Partner Onboarding: Serve as the technical lead for onboarding new partners, implementing privacy-preserving controls (e.g., aggregation thresholds and anonymization techniques)

Pipeline & Data Product Ownership: Design, build, and operate scalable ELT pipelines using Snowpark and/or PySpark and advanced SQL to provision Gold datasets

Identity Resolution: Implement and evolve identity resolution logic mapping internal data to 3P identifiers (including LUIDs, RampIDs, TransUnion IDs), ensuring privacy-safe practices

Scalable Architecture: Design and operate scalable data architectures across Snowflake and Databricks supporting batch and near real-time processing patterns

Data Quality by Design: Build robust automated checks (e.g., Great Expectations or custom SQL assertions) and define quality standards to detect schema drift, null rate spikes, and volume anomalies

FinOps & Operational Excellence: Lead performance optimization across platforms (query tuning, caching, incremental processing) and define and implement query tagging and chargeback models for accurate cost attribution

Operational Maturity: Establish monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and standard operating procedures to improve platform reliability and reduce incident time-to-resolution

Testing & Validation: Validate that output data adheres to privacy and business requirements, and define test strategies for partner-facing releases

Technical Escalation: Serve as the escalation point for diagnosing connection failures, data discrepancies, or latency issues with partner technical teams

Agentic Workflows & Platform Enablement: Design and build internal AI agents (using frameworks like LangChain, Snowflake Cortex) and mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and operational best practices

Qualification

Data EngineeringAdvanced SQLPythonSnowflakeDatabricksELT PipelinesMLOpsClean Room KnowledgeAI/LLM ExperienceCertificationsLeadership

Required

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering

5+ years of Data Engineering experience, with deep proficiency in advanced SQL and Python

3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, specifically Snowflake or Databricks

Proven experience building and operating scalable ELT pipelines using orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt)

Strong track record designing production-grade systems (observability, reliability, performance tuning, incident response)

Exposure to Data Clean Room concepts and Clean Room platforms like LiveRamp, Snowflake or Databricks

Experience building applications with LLMs, RAG, Vector Databases, or frameworks like LangChain/LlamaIndex

Ability to mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and operational best practices

Preferred

SnowPro Core Certification OR Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer OR Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

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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