Manager, Data & Analytics

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 part of the global Operations & Technology organization, the Data & Analytics team (D&A) is focused on data and analytics strategies for the future. We support NBCU’s vast portfolio of brands - from broadcast, cable, news, and sports networks to film studios, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties. We take pride in providing NBCUniversal with data to advise and shape strategic business decisions.

The Data & Analytics (D&A) team at NBCUniversal is looking for a passionate Manager, Data & Analytics who’s looking to help development teams be successful through self-organization, coordination, and collaboration. In this role, you will manage complex technical projects and programs from planning phase through delivery and support including the budgets. The right person for this role is not only passionate about "actions over words" but wants to be a part of shaping how our internal engineering teams deliver safe, scalable, and consistent deliverables. The right candidate should be focused on proactively removing impediments from the group, understanding the importance of clear communication, and is able to provide relevant reporting at both the team and executive level. Your ability to manage labor and budgets and provide detailed and accurate estimation is highly desired. If you have excellent interpersonal, project management and problem-solving skills, this might be the perfect role for you! Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.

• Discover, design & build Data & Analytics initiatives or have the experience doing it in the past. Think and be like an Engineer.
• Manage budgets, vendors, resources & delivery of large, high-impact programs aimed at improving operational efficiencies for Data & Analytics Engineering.
• Develop close working relationships with stakeholders to identify functional requirements for the data lakes, data warehouse, reports, dashboards and final data products
• Ensure all technical projects are understood, documented, and progressing with complete visibility of all budgets, timelines, status, progress, dependencies, risks, opportunities, etc.
• Ensure all work is captured, vetted, planned, and tracked within JIRA, according to established practices
• Help the product teams and development teams achieve their goals aligned with program roadmaps and initiatives
• Lead development teams in self-organization, time, budget management and workload balance
• Define project roadmaps: ensure all milestones are met, risk is communicated, and data quality is never compromised.
• Prioritize department project work, delegate responsibilities effectively and ensure accountability
• Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies.
• Collaborate with the IT platform, infrastructure, and architecture teams in introducing and integrating new analytics/data tools into the organization.
• Participate in the department’s data governance initiatives: assist in developing, promoting and enforcing documentation, data standards and quality in the Data & Analytics programs.
• Organize and socialize metadata resources, such as data lineage documents, data mappings, data dictionaries, training documents, knowledge base/wiki, etc.
• Coordinate final production releases with project team, pla