Senior Data Engineer, Content Data Solutions

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology:

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: Our technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

About The Role

The Content Data Solutions team builds and maintains best in class data products enabling business teams to analyze and measure subscriber movements and support revenue generation initiatives. The Senior Data Engineer will contribute to the Company’s success by partnering with business, analytics and infrastructure teams to design and build data pipelines to facilitate measuring subscriber movements and metrics. Collaborating across disciplines, they will identify internal/external data sources, design table structure, define ETL strategy & automated Data Quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and growth of our Data Products and Data Warehouses around Content Performance and Content Engagement data.

• Design and develop scalable data warehousing solutions, building ETL pipelines in Big Data environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid)

• Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark and Airflow

• Help architect data solutions/frameworks and define data models for the underlying data warehouse and data marts

• Collaborate with Data Product Managers, Data Architects and Data Engineers to design, implement, and deliver successful data solutions

• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance

• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs and support commitment to our customers (Data Science, Data Analytics teams)

• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines.

• Strong understanding of data modeling principles including Dimensional modeling, data normalization principles.

• Experience using analytic SQL, working with traditional relational databases and/or distributed systems (Snowflake or Redshift), required.

• Good understanding of SQL Engines and able to conduct advanced performance tuning.

• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information.

• Strong communication skills – written and verbal presentations.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience programming languages (e.g. Python, Pyspark), preferred.

• Experience with data orchestration/ETL tools (Airflow, Nifi), preferred.

• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks/EMR/Spark & Airflow a plus.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Master’s Degree a plus

Additional Information

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $136,038 to $182,490 per year, in Glendale, California is $136,038 to $182,490 per year, in Seattle, Washington is $142,516 to $191,180 per year, in New York City, NY is $142.516 to $191,180 per year, and in San Francisco, California is $149,000 to $199,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.