Sr Staff Data Engineer
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The Data Management and BI Team is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to join our team. We build data pipelines to land profile and store multiple internal & external datasets. We also build applications that surface this data to support our business partners strategic decisionmaking. Were an AWS shop that uses opensource technologies including Scala Python Pandas Spark Hive and Postgres as well as BI tools such as Tableau and MicroStrategy. We work in a very agile environment where product specifications are flexible and often change rapidly over time. Were seeking people who are comfortable with ambiguity can drive towards clarity and define plans. While the key focus for this role is on backend engineering engineers who have fullstack expertise will be especially considered.
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 bigdata 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 flows 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 nonrelational 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.
Qualifications :
Basic Requirements:
- 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 with advanced SQL Linux MicroStrategy Tableau and Pandas.
- Strong problemsolving 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 nontechnical audiences.
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems or related field with 10 years of relevant experience.
Desired Characteristics:
- 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 AdJuster 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 resultsoriented and driven.
- Ability and desire to work within a crossfunctional team environment with people from multiple business units vendors countries and cultures.
- Selfdriven/selfinitiator 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 solutionfocused with the ability to perform under pressure and meet targets
Additional Requirements:
- Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a nonNBCUniversal worksite most commonly an employees residence.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid leave tuition reimbursement and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $150000 $185000 (bonus eligible)
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
