Data Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a hardworking Data Engineer with an obsession for data, to join our fast-paced Sinclair Digital organization. At Sinclair Digital, data is essential for all our decision-making needs whether its related to product design, measuring new feature effectiveness, or helping our internal teams increase observability. Data can give us keen insights on how we can improve our services for our teams, users, and partners. The ideal candidate will be customer focused with empathy, have a passion to effectively problem solving, showcase strong software development skills and understand modern approaches to data and analytics.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Help collaborate and implement the architecture of our next generation Data Platform on the Google Cloud Platform
• Develop and maintain data pipelines which will be a combination of both batch and real-time
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure data collection is appropriate for measuring product and feature success
• Collaborate closely with other team members to interpret data and answer business questions
• Conduct in-depth analyses on specific areas of interest

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering around data solutions
• Experience programming with an Object-Oriented Language such as Java
• Experience programming in Python
• Big Query, Airflow, Cloud Data Flow, Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kubernetes, App Engine, Lambda/Cloud Functions
• A familiarity with a modern cloud data platform and deploying services to them
• An ability to pull data from a variety of sources; typical sources include telemetry data from internal products, 3rd party APIs, SQL-based data warehouses and spreadsheets
• Experience with data requirements gathering
• Experience with Terraform and modern approaches to building Data Platforms on the cloud
• Skilled in providing technical leadership for project and team through design and code reviews, ensuring best software development practices are applied
• Experience evaluating data collection for accuracy
• Experience processing data in both batch and in real time
• Experience on building and maintaining APIs
• Demonstrate an understanding on algorithmic concepts from at least one information-centric discipline (e.g. statistics, machine learning, information processing, natural language processing, etc.)
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with Agile Development Methodologies

NICE-TO-HAVE:
• Well-versed using data visualization tools (e.g. Google Data Studio, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Google Cloud Certification - Certified GCP Big Data Specialty
• Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ad Manager
• Tagging best practices
• New Relic

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

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rne54m-18-224-63-87-42 in your application.