CDE 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

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn't stop there.

With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

The CDE Data Engineer will join the Content Delivery Engineering team, within the Global Video Engineering organization at NBCUniversal.

The CDE Data Engineer will be responsible for implementing and maintaining systems that ingest, process, and store vast amounts of data from internal systems and external partner systems.

These data systems must be scalable, robust, and within budget.

In this role, the CDE Data Engineer will work with a variety of technologies that support the building of meaningful models, alerts, reports, and visualizations from vast quantities of data.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Development of data systems and pipelines

Assist in cleansing, discretization, imputation, selection, generalization etc. to create high quality features for the modeling process

Work with business stakeholders to define business requirements including KPI and acceptance criteria

Use big data, relational and non-relational data sources, to access data at the appropriate level of granularity for the needs of specific analytical projects

Maintain up to date knowledge of the relevant data set structures and participate in defining necessary upgrades and modifications

Collaborate with software and data architects in building real-time and automated batch implementations of the data science solutions and integrating them into the streaming service architecture

Drive work on improving the codebase, striving for ultimate efficiencies in code and performance

Qualifications

Minimum five (5) years working with big data: ETL, pipeline building, analysis, code

Experience implementing scalable, distributed, highly available, and resilient systems using industry standard data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, GCP, AWS, etc.)

Experience with data visualization tools and techniques

Proficiency in at least one programming language Strong skills in data processing using SQL Desired Characteristics Experience with Snowflake or similar data service

Experience with data visualizations

Experience with multi-billion record datasets and leading projects that span the disciplines of data science and data engineering

Knowledge of enterprise-level digital analytics platforms

Team oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude and willingness to learn new methods and tools

Pride and ownership in your work and confident representation of your team to other parts of NBCUniversal

Additional Information

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