Senior Software Engineer, Data - Brentford, United Kingdom - NBC Universal

NBC Universal Brentford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Full time

Description

Company Description

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.

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 an unequaled 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 the consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

As part of the Direct-to-Consumer Decision Sciences team, the Data Engineer will be responsible for creating a connected data ecosystem that unleashes the power of our streaming data with a focus on international propositions. 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 Data Engineer will share responsibilities in the development and maintenance of optimized and highly available data pipelines that facilitate deeper analysis and reporting by the business, as well as support ongoing operations related to the Direct-to-Consumer data ecosystem.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Develop and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines according to business and technical requirements.
Deliver observable, reliable and secure software, embracing "you build it, you run it" mentality, and focus on automation.
Continually work on improving the codebase and have active participation 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.
Practice and champion best practices, striving towards excellence and raising the bar within the department.
Operationalize data processing systems (DevOps) and system observability (SRE)

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
Operationalize data processing systems (dev ops)

Qualifications

3-5 years relevant experience in Data Engineering
Experience of near Real Time & Batch Data Pipeline development in a similar Big Data Engineering role.
Programming skills with an OOP language (e.g., Java, C++)
Proficient with SQL
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Hands on programming experience of the following (or similar) technologies:
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Apache Beam, Apache Flink, Apache Spark
- Google BigQuery, Snowflake
- Google BigTable
- Google Pub/Sub, Kafka
- Apache Airflow
Experience implementing observability around data pipelines using SRE best practices.
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.
Bachelors' degree with a specialization in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, other quantitative field or equivalent industry experience.

Desired Characteristics

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 recognize 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

Additional Information

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. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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