Sr. Applied Data Engineer - NBC Sports Next

Company Description

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NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our two groups: Youth & Recreational Sports and Golf. 

At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips; TeamUnify, swim team management services; SportsEngine Motion, sports and fitness business software solutions.

Come join us as we work together as one team to innovate and deliver what’s Next.  

Golf fuses the team behind products and services like GolfNow, TeeOff and GolfPass, which better connects golfers and golf facilities around the world through innovative solutions like cloud-based golf course management and SmartPlay contactless technology and services that create optimum golfing experiences.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY: Applied Data Engineer role is responsible for all aspects of NBC Sports Next data platform, data integration, and data analytics. The role will be hands-on and will be responsible for helping business drive data-driven decisions and solving business opportunities through data. This role will be leading improvements of existing data solutions and development of new solutions by scoping, implementing, and testing in order to address business requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as a company-wide consultant leveraging knowledge of existing data structures and business knowledge to solve problems
• Own the vision for analytical systems (or subsystems), be accountable for integrating these systems into existing business process and software, and design and maintain the consolidated product roadmap for future ongoing evolution of these systems
• Be an expert in the data, including source systems, design data integration solutions, data validation, and data testing processes
• Be an expert in our applications, understand how our systems and applications receive data, how it is stored and used, and the underlying processes that leverage it
• Be a problem solver, when presented with new challenges, you are expected to research and network to find solutions
• Be a hands-on data expert who can design, build and manage our data pipelines
• Be a hands-on with developing and implementing robust and fault tolerant system for data ingestions and processing.
• Seek out answers to business problems, and look for opportunities to automate processes
• Collaborate with partners, App Engineering, Decision Science, Finance, Revenue Management, Marketing, and Sales throughout the development process to ensure solutions are built cohesively and meet requirements
• Proactivity communicates with technical and non-technical stakeholders, seek to learn, and understand, and potentially challenge existing processes in order to continuously seek improvement efficiencies
• Hands-on with database design, and architecture methodologies and development life cycle
• Hands-on experience with distributed processing technologies and