Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer (Sr. Data Architect) that will play a key role helping to design, build and optimize cloud-based services and applications for our portfolio of products. Our ideal candidate will often lead initiatives that span across teams and business-units, providing critical technical support and building future thinking proof-of-concepts. As a leader, this candidate will play a pivotal role in developing our engineering talent and will actively cultivate a positive culture that empowers engineers to continuously grow and develop new skills. Will also develop company-wide standards and processes that will optimize and nurture our SDLC to deliver initiatives on-schedule and on-budget across a wide range of technologies, languages and systems.

Responsibilities:
• Design and deliver technical highly available, durable, and cost-efficient solutions in the cloud for initiatives, products, and proof of concepts
• Closely partner with program and technical project managers to ensure technical delivery of large engineering projects that span teams and disciplines
• Communicate to build consensus, while creating and driving technical decisions.  Create credibility and trust as a coach while providing clear vision and direction to the engineering organization
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills, mentor and influence engineers to help grow them both technically and professionally
• To have a working familiarity with industry best practices, architectures and patterns
• Help the company identify growth opportunities into new and emerging green field technical domains
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize Sinclair software development lifecycle processes to ensure consistent quality of our organization's delivery of cloud-native software
• Create, inspire and engage others to grow and learn while leading respectfully and confidently while you collaborate and broaden community influence.
• Experience assessing data integrity and improving data collection strategies
• Experience identifying trends, patterns, anomalies, spikes, standard deviations, and other occurrences in data sets
• Experience evaluating data at the point of collection for accuracy
• Knowledgeable about algorithmic concepts from at least one information-centric discipline (e.g. statistics, machine learning, information processing, natural language processing, etc.)
• Knowledgeable about the relative computational complexity and scalability of particular approaches

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter driven by their own curiosity and sense of urgency. They will be able to maintain focus through helping prioritize and streamline requirements. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience.

Minimum Qualifications:
• 7+ years architecting and delivering software in the cloud
• 7+ years' experience in Python, Node.JS, Java, C#, C/C++, or another modern programming language
• 4+ years production usage of cloud services from AWS, Azure or GCP
• Understanding of real-time, large-scale Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Experience with building and operating Master Data Management solutions.
• Experience architecting complex tools from scratch through production
• Experience building and running durable and highly scalable applications
• Effective leadership, communication and presentation skills
• Expert understanding of CI/CD, modern SDLC, and Agile development
• Familiar with modern software best practice in areas of testing, monitoring, and deployment
• Experience using data visualization tools (e.g. Data Studio, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Knowledge of latest data technologies such streaming analytics, graph databases, lambda architecture, etc. a huge plus.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzoye7-3-145-16-90-42 in your application.