Lead Data Engineer
Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world‑class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer 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 premium ad‑supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world‑renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company (‘Versant’) comprising most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The spin‑off is expected to be completed during 2025.
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. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.
As part of the Media Group Decision Sciences team, the Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for creating a connected data ecosystem that unleashes the power of our streaming data. We gather data from across all customer/prospect journeys in near real‑time, to allow fast feedback loops across territories; combined with our strategic data platform, this data ecosystem is at the core of being able to make intelligent customer and business decisions.
In this role, the Lead Data Engineer will share responsibilities in the development and maintenance of optimised and highly available data pipelines that facilitate deeper analysis and reporting by the business, as well as support ongoing operations related to the Media Group data ecosystem.
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Help manage a high-performance team of Data Engineers.
- Contribute to and help lead team in design, build, testing, scaling and maintaining data pipelines from a variety of source systems and streams (internal, third party, cloud based, etc.), according to business and technical requirements.
- Deliver observable, reliable and secure software, embracing “you build it you run it” mentality, and focus on automation and GitOps.
- Continually work on improving the codebase and have active participation and oversight in all aspects of the team, including agile ceremonies.
- Take an active role in story definition, assisting business stakeholders with acceptance criteria.
- Work with Principal Engineers and Architects to share and contribute to the broader technical vision.
- Develop and champion best practices, striving towards excellence and raising the bar within the department.
- Develop solutions combining data blending, profiling, mining, statistical analysis, and machine learning, to better define and curate models, test hypothesis, and deliver key insights.
- Operationalise data processing systems (dev ops).
Qualifications
- Extensive relevant experience in Data Engineering.
- Experience of near Real Time & Batch Data Pipeline development in a similar Big Data Engineering role.
- Programming skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, Scala, R, SQL and experience in writing reusable/efficient code to automate analysis and data processes.
- Experience in processing structured and unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis and reporting with integration with a variety of data metric providers ranging from advertising, web analytics, and consumer devices.
- Experience implementing scalable, distributed, and highly available systems using Google Cloud.
- Hands on programming experience of the following (or similar) technologies: Apache Beam, Scio, Apache Spark, and Snowflake.
- Experience in progressive data application development, working in large scale/distributed SQL, NoSQL, and/or Hadoop environment.
- Build and maintain dimensional data warehouses in support of BI tools.
- Develop data catalogs and data cleanliness to ensure clarity and correctness of key business metrics.
- Experience building streaming data pipelines using Kafka, Spark or Flink.
- Data modelling experience (operationalising data science models/products) a plus.
- Bachelors’ degree with a specialisation in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, other quantitative field or equivalent industry experience.
Desired Characteristics
- Experience with graph‑based data workflows using Apache Airflow.
- Experience building and deploying ML pipelines: training models, feature development, regression testing.
- Strong Test‑Driven Development background, with understanding of levels of testing required to continuously deliver value to production.
- Experience with large‑scale video assets.
- Ability to work effectively across functions, disciplines, and levels.
- Team‑oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new methods, tools, practices and skills.
- Ability to recognise discordant views and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
- Pride and ownership in your work and confident representation of your team to other parts of NBCUniversal.
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As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in‑person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. 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.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Research Services
