Sr Data Engineer

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. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

Responsibilities
The News Production Engineering department is charged with supporting NBC News and all its subsidiaries and digital properties, including MSNBC and NBC News Now with Ingest, Editing, Archival, and Playback operations in 30Rock and bureaus located Domestically and Internationally.

As Senior Data Engineer for News Production, you will be responsible for administrating, managing, protecting, and distributing all the data sets across all the workflows in the news production on-prem and in the cloud.

• 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
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and engage with cross functional teams to drive project outcomes.
• Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies.
• Managing and Coordination Platform Projects with the development team.
• Act as the SME on new technology and able to present to senior leadership.
• Mentor less experienced team members and provide technical leadership.
• Help in finding a reusable solution for business issues
• Able to Explain technical solution to stakeholders

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ Years’ Experience in Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data Quality, Metadata, ETL, and Data Warehouse methodologies and technologies.
• 5+ Years’ Experience in any combination of the following: SQL, Big Data, Linux, Power BI, Python, APIs.
• 5+ years’ Experience with relational database design (SQL), non-relational (NoSQL) databases, big data, and real-time technologies.
• 1+ years’ Experience as a senior engineer.
• Experience with software containerization, such as Docker.
• Experience developing and / or consuming web interfaces (REST API) and associated skills (HTTP, web services).
• Basic understanding of cloud data sources and architectures such as AWS/S3.
• Basic understanding of relational data modeling and be able to clearly articulate the reasons to use non-relational systems in any architecture.
• Self-directed, ability to multi-task, sharp analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment.

Desired Characteristics

• 5+ years’ Experience in the Media Industry with an understanding of Production and Post-production workflows.
• 5+ years’ Experience in handling Media Archival (MAM) and Production (PAM) databases.
• Experience in MemSQL is desired, but equivalent experience in any of the following is acceptable: Snowflake, MySQL, Redshift, Athena, MSSQL Server, Oracle.
• Experience in non-relational systems such as Redis, Cassandra, and MongoDB is useful for supporting legacy applications.
• Ability to design concise 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.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• 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.
• Committed and solution focused with the ability to perform under pressure and meeting targets.

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: $130,000 - $150,000.

Additional Information

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