Principal Data Engineer, AdSmart

Company Description

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. 

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. 

Job Description

As a member of the Data Engineering Team, the Principal Data Engineer, AdSmart will be directly responsible for design, management, and development of parts of software platform and products for NBCUniversal’s Audience Studio. NBCUniversal’s audience management products will enable NBCUniversal to better understand its brand’s audiences such as NBC News, Bravo, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and USA Network as well as audiences that cross brands. The goal is to ensure we know who is watching what, where and when. In turn enabling NBCUniversal’s sales teams to properly align our audiences with the market advertisements that can benefit them the most. 

You’re a big thinker who can analyze and evangelize a long range opportunity, architect a ground breaking solution, and roll-up your sleeves to get code out the door when needed. You are data driven and analytical. You understand the concept of a value proposition and evaluation criteria, and you know how to align them with low level milestones to get the work done. You can apply domain knowledge from one technical subject, in order to quickly ramp and deliver on a new one. You know how to learn from failure until you succeed, and you are able to articulate and quantify the reasons for your decisions. 
 
You will be part of the Ad Smart Data Engineering team, participating in the data architecture that will drive both current and future data management initiatives within NBCUniversal’s Audience Studio group.

• Serve as a principal data engineer for audience studio data products. 
• Participate in, and execute, a 12-36 month product roadmap with input from the delivery team, stakeholders, and leadership 
• Develop and code the software components that are core to Ad Smart, under the leadership of the VP Architecture 
• Support product with the overall roadmap and ensure updates to senior leadership are 100% technically correct. 
• Analyze and report results and adjust the overall engineering strategy accordingly with engineering leadership

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience as a lead developer or manager
• Fluency in Scala and/or Java programming languages
• Strong OO & FP design patterns, data structure, and algorithm design skills
• Extensive experience developing Apache Spark applications
• 3+ years of experience with relational database design (SQL), non-relational (NoSQL) databases, big data, real-time technologies
• Experience with cloud data sources and architectures such as: AWS/S3, HDFS, Kafka
• Experience with software containerization, such as Docker
• Experience developing and / or consuming web interfaces (REST API) and associated skills (HTTP, web services)
• Self-directed, ability to multi-task, sharp analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience as a development manager (with direct authority over development staff)
• Experience with Cluster Management and Container Orchestration technologies such as Mesos, Kubernetes, Hadoop/Yarn
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming technologies
• Experience with digital advertising technologies
• Able and eager to learn new technologies
• Able to easily transition between high-level strategy and day-to-day implement