Senior Data Engineer - Big Data, Python
Disney ABC Television Group
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Are you interested in changing the future of television? The media industry is undergoing rapid change, and Disney-ABC Television is building new data & analytics capabilities that will enable us to complete in this dynamic new marketplace. A new startup group has launched within Disney-ABC Television with the skills and passion to prepare the way for that future and lead a data revolution. The Consumer Data & Analytics team is responsible for innovating, developing, and evangelizing cutting-edge data products and solutions.
Disney-ABC Television Group (DATG) is seeking a rock star Sr. Data Engineer to join our Consumer Data & Analytics (CD&A) team. This individual will be working on building an enterprise wide data ingestion platform for various ETL/ELT operations. You will also be creating high volume, high performance data warehouse for analytics which will be used by various BI Engineers and Data Scientists for creating insights.
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, implement, test, and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data lake and warehouse.
• Design, enhance and implement ETL/data ingestion platform on the cloud.
• Create ETLs/ELTs to take data from various operational systems and create a unified/enterprise data model for analytics and reporting.
• Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions that work well within the overall data architecture.
• Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
• Mentor less experienced team members.
Basic Qualifications
• 7 years of experience in designing and operating very large Data platforms
• Strong Data Warehousing skills, including: Data cleanup, ETL, ELT and handling scalability issues for enterprise level data warehouse
• Strong data modelling/design experience
• Experience with implementing data quality rules across business intelligence platform
• Capable of investigating, familiarizing and mastering new data sets quickly
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills in large data environment
• Experience with building data platform on cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Work smarter, not harder – Proponent of not re-inventing the wheel; generally prefer wielding the power of open source and community-driven software to solve hard problems, quickly
• Experience in data modeling and transformation of large scale data sources using SQL, Redshift, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, EMR, or other Big Data technologies
• Experience in using Python, Java or any other language to solving data problems
• Experience in implementing SDLC best practices and Agile methods
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Exposure to at least one reporting tool like Qlikview, Tableau, OBIEE, MicroStrategy etc.
• Experience in evaluating various technological solutions to solve business requirements.
• Experience with data mining and advance analytics.
• Familiarity with media industry.
Required Education
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
Company Overview
The Disney/ABC Television Group is composed of the Walt Disney Company's (NYSE: DIS) global entertainment and news television properties, owned television stations group, as well as radio and publishing businesses. This includes the ABC Television Network, ABC Owned Television Stations Group, ABC News, ABC Studios, Disney Channels Worldwide, ABC Family, Radio Disney, as well as Disney/ABC Domestic Television and Disney Media Distribution. The company's equity interest in A&E Television Networks round out the Group's portfolio of media businesses.
Additional Information:
Equal Opportunity Employer- Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability
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