Sr. Data Engineer

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. 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.

As our Senior Data Engineer, you’ll join the Content Delivery Engineering team (CDE) within NBCUniversal’s Global Video Engineering organization in New York City, USA. The Senior 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, Senior 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

• Design, develop & maintain new and existing data systems and pipelines, with a focus on reliability, testability and ease of use.  

• 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

• Ensure a consistent, diligent approach to peer review of code and configuration change within sensible, maintained repository structures and CI/CD pipelined deployment.

• Participate in, or lead design reviews, architectural discussions and team knowledge‑sharing sessions with peers and stakeholders.

• Make best use of our observability systems & advanced analytics to surface issues, drive diagnosis and develop fixes.