Sr Data Engineer
About The Position
The Data Foundations Platform and Governance Engineering team within the Commerce, Data, and Identity organization within the larger Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product and Technology organization is in search of a Senior Data Engineer. The role of this Senior Engineer will focus on privacy solutions and data subject rights automation, working cross-functionally with analytics, data architecture, legal and security partners to build scalable solutions to solve complex privacy related challenges. You'll get to understand the challenges of how data is being used at Disney's world-class streaming services while pushing the boundaries of what is possible using the latest technologies available in AWS, Databricks, and beyond.
Requirements
- 5+ years of data engineering experience in software engineering in the data space
- Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise
- Strong fundamental Scala and Python software programming skills
- Good understanding of AWS or other cloud provider resources (S3)
- Strong SQL skills and ability to creatively problem solve and dive deep into our data and software ecosystem
- Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark
- Hands-on production experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
- Scripting language experience (Bash, PowerShell)
- Technologies such as OneTrust, Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Kinesis, REST APIs, Terraform, Go
- SQL, Python, Scala, other computer software languages
- Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skillsets
- Self-starting problem solver with an eye for detail and excellent analytical and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
- Experience with at least one major Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
- Experience in developing APIs with GraphQL
- Deep Understanding of AWS or other cloud providers as well as infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
- Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
- Familiarity with privacy regulations and/or data subject rights
Responsibilities
- Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.
- Maintain data engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation
- Evangelize and evolve the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption
- Build out a robust observability, alerting, logging, and system control plane that allows easy diagnosis of any issues across all our data pipelines.
- Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing software deployments while maintaining strict uptime SLAs
- Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements
- Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team
- Be a part of the magic: Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Foundational Platform
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
