Principal Data Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

This is an opportunity to play a critical role in the digital evolution of NBC News, one of the world’s best known and most trusted news organizations. We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer for the Data Engineering team, a part of NBC News Digital Technology.

You will be responsible for designing and maintaining efficient, flexible, and extensible data frameworks to build advanced analytics pipelines and data applications across the business. You will operate as leader within the data engineering team and work with other development teams to facilitate the extraction of data and maintain data pipelines across the NBC News Digital portfolio. You should have experience working with and mentoring Jr. developers and working to foster a culture of adaptability, respect and ownership.

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Data Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Possess an in-depth understanding of the data structures and governance
  • Deep understanding of modern cloud computing platforms and concepts (AWS preferred)
  • Work with modern schema-less big data storage solutions
  • Work closely with machine learning and data science teams to create scale and efficiency
  • Work closely with DevOps to foster a culture of collaboration
  • Demonstrate critical thinking for potential roadblocks; comprehend a bigger picture of the business and effectively communicate these issues to stakeholders
  • Work closely with internal stakeholders to implement solutions that adhere to solution designs and schema

Qualifications

  • Embrace a ‘builder’ mentality to push the business forward
  • 8+ years experience in a software developer role
  • Proficient with AWS, Python and Pyspark Experience with EMR, S3, SNS, Kafka and Databricks
  • Experience with distributed data technologies (e.g. Spark)
  • Proficient with Linux environment
  • Familiarity with SQL and Presto
  • Passion for media and news
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

  • Working experience on Airflow and DAG is a plus.
  • Experience building scalable and reliable Data Streaming Pipeline using Spark and Kafka

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's 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. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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Tags: Airflow AWS Big Data Computer Science Databricks Data pipelines DevOps Engineering Kafka Linux Machine Learning Pipelines PySpark Python Spark SQL Streaming

Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours

Region: North America
Country: United States
Job stats:  9  2  0
Category: Engineering Jobs

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