Data Engineer

Company Description

We produce world-class content that we distribute across our range of film, television, and streaming outlets and bring to life in our theme parks and customer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our superior ad-supported streaming service. We create and distribute top-level filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and own world-famous theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

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, paired with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, are guided by our employees, audiences, park guests, and the communities we live in. We aim to cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced, and heard. Together, we’ll continue to produce and deliver content that reflects the present and ever-evolving face of the world.

Job Description

As a segment of the international Operations & Technology organization, the D&A team focuses on data and analytics strategies for the future. We support NBCU’s vast range of brands - from broadcast, cable, news, and sports networks to film studios, world-famous theme parks, and a varied set of digital properties. We proudly provide our business divisions with the necessary data to guide and shape strategic business decisions regarding our content.

We're seeking a passionate problem solver who’s eager to build the next wave of data pipelines and applications. Working across one or several of our main subject areas – research, marketing, engineering frameworks – the Data Engineer role would suit you if you’re a hands-on coder who can develop and purify large datasets to reveal actionable insights.

Furthermore, you’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders, data engineers, visualization experts, data scientists, and other technologists across the business. If you're someone who enjoys taking large, disparate data sets and constructing them into flexible and scalable analytics applications and databases, you've found the right place. Here, you can create the extraordinary. Join us!

• Cooperate with business leaders, engineers, and product managers to understand data needs.
• Collaborate with other tech teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using cloud-native data engineering principles
• Design, create, and scale data pipelines across numerous source systems and streams (internal, third-party, and cloud-based), distributed/elastic environments, and subsequent applications and/or self-service solutions
• Identify, design, and implement improvements to internal procedures: automatizing manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Implement suitable design patterns while enhancing performance, cost, security, scale, and end-user experience
• Participate and take the lead in development sprints, demos, and retrospectives, as well as release and deployment
• Establish and maintain relationships with supportive IT teams to effectively deliver work products to production

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a data engineering or related role
• Direct experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT development principles, or data warehousing concepts
• Understanding of data management basics and data storage principles
• Experience with cloud-based data warehouse platforms (AWS RedShift, GCP BigQuery, Snowflake or equivalent
• Experience in building data pipelines using Python/SQL
• Demonstratable experience in Airflow or similar orchestration engines
• Experience in adopting CI/CD principles and processes to data engineering solutions.
• General comprehension of cloud data engineering design patterns and use cases
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or a quantitative field.

This position qualifies for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a range of other discounts and benefits. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $100,000 - $135,000.

Additional Information

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