Principal Data and Ml Engineer

Job Description

Your New Role…
WBD Data & Artificial Intelligence organization is looking to hire a Principle Data Engineering who will be contributing to a team of highly motivated data engineers and analytics engineers to build data products and tools to solve various data-driven use cases for WBD ad products and ad sales globally. You will be helping scientists, analytics, product managers, and machine learning engineers perform their functions by building highly scalable capabilities across the platform.

This individual will bring in his/her expertise in a wide variety of big data processing frameworks (both open source and proprietary), large-scale database systems (OLAP and OLTP), stream data processing, API development, machine learning engineering, and cloud automation to improve ad experience and revenue.

Responsibilities…
• Hire Data Engineers, Architects, and Analytics Engineers to build and maintain various data products and tools.
• Lead and mentor one or more data engineering team(s), make them productive, keep them stay focused and motivated in an intense and demanding environment.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews to build a functional platform in an agile fashion – requirements may come from an internal or external stakeholders.
• Work closely with higher management, various stakeholders to prioritize the requirements.
• Work closely with your team to architect and implement various capabilities and data products which include data marts, data integration with Ad Server and/or other DMPs, custom integration.
• Work closely with various Ad Tech teams to roll out data product initiatives.
• Work with data science team to operationalize models and enable various short term and long term AVOD initiatives.
• Present platform architecture, roadmap, plans, status, and risk to various stakeholders including higher management.
• Build capabilities in the platform to make data engineering and science functions more productive.
• Champion security and governance and make sure data engineering team following all the company guidelines while delivering data products.
• Take ownership of the platform by enabling 24X7 support.
• Assist in the preparation of presentations and formal analysis in support of executive decision making and strategy development.
• Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.

Experience & Qualifications…
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a similar discipline
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• 4+ years of experience in engineering management
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering
• Prior experience and deep domain knowledge in Ad Sales are highly preferred
• Prior experience in working with Ad Servers, DMPs, SSPs, DSPs is a huge plus
• Go above and beyond attitude – ready to roll up sleeves to meet business expectations.
• Ability to work in fast paced, high pressure, agile environment
• Ability to lead one or more teams to deliver high quality data products
• Expertise in at least few programming languages - Java, Scala, Python or similar
• Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must
• Expertise in stream processing systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar or Similar
• Expertise in building micro services and managing containerized deployments
• Expertise in distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink or Similar
• Expertise in SQL and No-SQL – Apache Cassandra, DynamoDB, MySQL
• Expertise in OLAP databases such as Delta Lake, Snowflake or Redshift
• Experience in operationalizing and scaling machine models is a huge plus
• Experience with variety of data tools & frameworks (example: Apache Airflow, Druid) is a huge plus
• Experience with analytics tools such as Looker, Tableau is preferred
• Cloud (AWS) experience
• Direct to consumer digital business experience preferred
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Strong team focus with outstanding organizational and resource management skills
• How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $172,550.00 - $320,450.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2p90y-18-119-105-239-42 in your application.