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Lead Solutions Engineer, Digital Data Products
NBC Universal
New York, NY, United States
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About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. 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.
Responsibilities
Lead Solutions Engineer for DAVD, an Analytical Data Application serving Digital Ad Sales, Distribution and Research. DAVD consolidates digital viewership / engagement metrics from myriad data sources into our data lake and enable a unified view into NBCUniversal’s vast digital portfolio across on-domain websites, streaming video devices, streaming video apps, set-top box, distribution partners, etc. Given the nature of this project, we are looking for individual who not only has experience within the Digital Media Publisher Industry, but who also has extensive data engineering experience working with large scale data volumes across a gamut of various technologies such as Big Data, HDFS, HIVE, Python, SQL.
Solutions Engineer
• Lead contributor to the overall Data Product roadmap by working closely with our business partners to understand their challenges and develop analytical tools to help drive business decisions
• Full stack developer who can single handily build working prototypes and work with business clients to further iterate on new features by taking an agile approach to gain early feedback
• Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies (Big Data, Teradata, MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc)
• Deep understanding for the digital media ad sales business and ad serving technologies with extensive experience working with ad serving transactional data logs
• Educate and inform business partners on DAVD architecture, capabilities, best practices and solutions to build out future enhancements
• Assist in analyzing business requirements, source systems, understand underlying data sources, transformation requirements, data mapping, data model and metadata for reporting solutions
• Provide direction/guidance to our team of developers to further evolve initial data products to a production ready state
• Draw from strong technical expertise in BI and Database technologies to help conduct project code reviews/checkpoints to ensure the quality of deliverables
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field with 8+ years of industry experience.
• Strong Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems background
• 5+ years in Digital Media Publisher Industry with a deep understanding in Digital Research whom can clearly articulate the following concepts/definitions along with real life examples for following: MVPD, OVD, STB, OTT, Domain, STR, OSI, eVars, Pixels, Tags, ad hierarchies, site, site sections, GPT
• 5+ Experience in Data Modeling, Data architecture, Data Quality, Metadata, ETL and Data Warehouse methodologies and technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with developing complex Business Intelligence reporting solutions
• Experience in any combination of the following: SQL, Big Data (HIVE), Teradata, Linux, Informatica, Talend, Microstrategy, Tableau, Linux, Python, HTML, Java/JSP, Angular, Bootstrap, APIs or Elasticsearch
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Strong oral and written communication and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate new concepts and drive change in processes and behaviors and also to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor in a team-oriented environment
Eligibility Requirements:
• Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through NBC UNIVERSAL CAREERS to be considered
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
Desired Characteristics
• Experience with various digital platforms such as Omniture (Site Catalyst), Rentrak, comScore, Operative One, Google DoubleClick, Freewheel, Ad-Juster, Nielsen, Facebook, Twitter, etc
• Ability to design concise and visually appealing reports, user interfaces, mockups and documentation
• Strong analytical focus, results-oriented and execution driven, with the ability to align technology developments with the generation of potential competitive business advantage.
• Self-motivated, well organized and has strong innovation and facilitation skills, especially in driving consensus among senior technical resources.
• Ability and desire to work within a cross-functional team environment with people from multiple business units, vendors, countries and cultures.
• Self-driven/self-initiator and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as in teams and promotes an open flow of information so that all stakeholders are well informed.
• Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
• Demonstrates good personal time management skills, including punctuality, time reporting and completion of assigned tasks within agreed time frames
• Ability to work independently under minimum supervision and proactive in solving issues
• Energetic, committed and solution focused with the ability to perform under pressure and meeting targets