Comcast Hiring for Senior Data Engineer, Data Products Engineering at Chennai, India Full Time

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

INTRODUCTION: At Comcast, we believe in the talent of our people. It’s our passion and commitment to excellence that drives Comcast vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It’s what makes us uniquely Comcast. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us. ABOUT THE ROLE: Data Engineer for the Data Products Engineering Team. Our team builds data pipelines to land, profile and store multiple internal & external datasets and build applications that surface this data to support our business partners’ strategic decision making. We are an AWS shop that uses open source technologies including Scala, Python, Pandas, Spark, Hive, Postgres, Redis, Flask, as well as BI tools such as Tableau and MicroStrategy. We work in a very agile environment, where product specifications are flexible and often change rapidly over time. We are seeking people who are comfortable with ambiguity, can drive towards clarity and define execution plans. While the key focus for this role is on backend engineering, engineers who have full stack expertise will be especially considered.

Job Description

• Contributor to the overall Data Product roadmap by working closely with our business partners to understand their challenges and develop analytical tools to help drive business decisions

• Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies (Big Data, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Python, Spark etc)

• 4+ years experience with AWS technologies. Strong experience using Python and Pandas in an AWS Lambda framework is highly desired. Experience using EMR and/or DataBricks or the ability to read EMR code and translate it into Lambdas.

• Must understand the basics of relational data modeling and be able to clearly articulate the reasons to use non-relational systems in our architecture. Experience in SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is desired but relevant experience in any of the following is acceptable: SnowFlake, MySQL, Redshift, Athena, MSSQL Server, Oracle. Experience in non-relational systems such as Redis, Cassandra, and MongDB is useful for supporting legacy applications.

• Decent understanding for the digital media ad sales business and ad serving technologies with experience working with ad serving transactional data logs or Nielsen demographic data.

• Educate and inform business partners on architecture, capabilities, best practices and solutions to build out future enhancements

• Assist in analyzing business requirements, source systems, understand underlying data sources, transformation requirements, data mapping, data model and metadata for reporting solutions

• Writing easily understood documentation and architecture diagrams and keeping them up to date as code and frameworks change over time.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.

• Strong Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems background

• 5+ Years Experience in Data Modeling, Data architecture, Data Quality, Metadata, ETL and Data Warehouse methodologies and technologies.

• Experience in any combination of the following: SQL, Linux, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Python, APIs, Spark, Scala, Pandas

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Strong oral and written communication and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate new concepts and drive change in processes and behaviors and to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1+ years in Digital Media Publisher Industry with a solid understanding of Digital Research

• Experience with various digital platforms such as Omniture (Site Catalyst), Rentrak, comScore, Operative One, Google DoubleClick, Freewheel, Ad-Juster, MOAT, Nielsen, Facebook, Twitter, etc

• Understanding of how to manage code in the Enterprise Git repository with appropriate branching and documentation skills

• Ability to design concise and visually appealing reports, user interfaces, mockups and documentation

• Ability to read external API documentation and write pipelines to extract data from our partners’ systems

• Ability to write and stand up internal API endpoints to share data with other internal teams.

• Strong analytical focus, results-oriented and execution driven.

• Ability and desire to work within a cross-functional team environment with people from multiple business units, vendors, countries and cultures.

• Self-driven/self-initiator and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as in teams and promotes an open flow of information so that all stakeholders are well informed.

• Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.

• Ability to work independently under minimum supervision and proactive in solving issues

• Energetic, committed and solution focused with the ability to perform under pressure and meeting targets

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.