Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

The Overview

The WBD Data and Artificial Intelligence organization is looking to hire a Principal Data Engineer who will be working closely with a team of highly motivated data engineers and analytic engineers to build a state-of-the-art data platform and data products to solve various data-driven use cases across the organization. You will be helping scientists, analytics, product managers, and machine learning engineers perform their functions by building highly scalable capabilities across the platform.

The Daily
• Take lead role in translating various business requirements into engineering and data architecture.
• Design and develop the data platform to efficiently and cost effectively address various data needs across the business.
• Architect and develop foundational data products such as Product, Content, Customer, and Ad Sales.
• Change how we think, act, and utilize our data by performing exploratory and

quantitative analytics, data mining, and discovery.
• Think of new ways to help make our data platform more scalable, resilient and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.
• Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
• Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks.
• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through

automation.
• Participate in supporting the platform 24X7.
• Be passionate about growing team - hire and mentor engineers and analysts.
• Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.

The Essentials
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Go above and beyond attitude.
• Ability to work in fast paced, high pressure, agile environment.
• Ability and willingness to learn any new technologies and apply them at work in order to stay ahead of the curve.
• Expertise in building and managing large scale data products is a must.
• 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 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, 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) will be a huge plus.
• Experience with Analytics Tools such as Looker, Tableau is preferred.
• Cloud (AWS) experience is highly preferred
• Ability to learn and teach new languages and frameworks.
• 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. $127,400.00 - $236,600.00 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@warnermedia.com.

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