Software Engineer I

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Software Development Engineer Job Description
 

Company Overview

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We’re home to the world’s best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter. 
 

About WBD Streaming

Warner Bros. Discovery’s DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, WB, CNN, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

About this role
Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) is looking to hire a full-time Experienced Software Engineer to join our Data Quality team. The team helps our clients articulate how data contributes to business value, identifies data quality issues, and implements solutions to verify, validate, and monitor data quality.   The Data Quality Engineer will drive the framework to formulate rules-based and pattern-based tests.  Ensuring code and pipelines are created to discover, implement, execute, and manage those tests. 

Responsibilities:

• Engineering - Build systems and datasets to meet Data Quality objectives, using software engineering, data management, and operational best practices.

• Analysis and Design - Analyze systems and data to identify data quality gaps and solutions.  Design and document data models and transformation specifications.

• Software Quality - Demonstrate a passion for quality and productivity by use of efficient development techniques, standards, and tests.

• Automate tests - Drive the design, to build, execute, and maintain automated tests.  Manage deep data profiling runs to ensure data products and pipelines meet expectations.

• Lead collaboratively – Help team members to be more productive. Share knowledge and guide direction for key technical decisions. Provide mentoring to other engineers.

• Partner across teams – Partner with analysts, engineers, subject matter experts, and product managers to apply WBD’s analytical and quality methods to satisfy stakeholder needs.

• Effectively communicate  through technical documentation, commented code, and interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams

• Model respect and excellence  - Contribute to building a vibrant workplace, where teams can thrive.  Model the organization’s positive, supportive culture of respect and excellence

Requirements:

• Data and Data Quality experience - Direct experience with many of the following: data quality, data management, analytics, business intelligence, dashboards, data science, data-intensive software development projects.

• Data ecosystem experience - Demonstrated familiarity or experience with navigating data ecosystems: data warehouses, data lakes, structured and unstructured data, file types, BI systems.

• Team collaboration experience - Ability to effectively coordinate and collaborate with software engineers, team members, and other internal subject matter experts to successfully leverage and continually improve WBD’s processes.

• Straightforward solutions - Abili