Pipeline Engineer- WB Animation

Job Description

The Job

Warner Bros. Animation Inc. seeks a Pipeline Research Engineer for the WBA Development & Production department. Responsible for expanding, optimizing and redesigning our data and data collection/reporting systems. Lead the creation of reporting tools/processes, optimizing project planning/scenarios and building interactive dashboards for all productions and production management leads.

The Daily
• Identify, design and implement internal process improvements for our data systems and workflows to improve productivity and communication.
• Build infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
• Build analytics tools that utilize data pipeline to provide actionable insights into production planning/scenarios.
• Work closely with senior production management on all data analytics initiatives including creation of: Custom dashboards using Tableau or similar analytics platform, Automated reporting tools, Resource planning tools, Real time analysis for project schedules.
• Create data analytics tools and presentations that provide insights and data flow to various departments to help with studio-wide planning and finding efficiencies across all projects.
• Interpret and clean raw data from our databases.
• Create technical documentation and training plans that allow stakeholders to utilize and better understand the tools/dashboards.
• Work with pipeline team to help design and maintain software and scripts to assist in a wide variety of automation and efficiency tasks.
• Assist production and pipeline team in solving technical issues and blockers.

The Essentials
• Advanced working knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases and scripting technologies (Python, Javascript, JSON, XML, etc).
• Technical expertise regarding database design development and data mining techniques.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools.
• Strong project management and organizational skills. Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• BS degree Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Information Systems.
• Strong knowledge and experience with reporting packages.
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets.
• Strong Python experience required.
• Knowledge of object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Java, C++, etc. a plus.
• Experience with Python web frameworks (Flask/Django) and Javascript a plus.
• Thorough knowledge of animation production workflows and pipelines.
• Experience with Shotgun, the Shotgun API, and SmartSheet.
• Knowledge of Shotgun Toolkit a plus.
• Experience working/integrating with artist DCCs like Photoshop, Maya, AfterEffects, etc.
• Comfortable with Git and CI.

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