Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

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Requisition #: R339816 Pub Date: 10/25/22 Apply Now Share This Job With a friend (or yourself)

Job Summary

Analytics and Experimentation (AXP) in the Comcast Applied AI & Discovery organization is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to help design, implement, improve on our Cloud Architecture, and collaborate on Data Platform and Comcast Product initiative and enhancements. The AXP Data Engineering team’s mission is to empower our Product & Engineering partners helping them make the data-driven decisions that drive customer value through improvements to the Connected Living and Entertainment products. To accomplish this, our team performs the data ingestion and transformation for various Comcast apps and device data to make them available within the Cloud Architecture. We make use of technologies like Spark, Presto, Scala, Python, various AWS Services in our ETL pipelines to expose the data to our analysts, product domain experts and machine learning applications. 2022 and beyond will be the year of data for the AXP Org and we are looking for someone to help us with various Cloud Platform and Data Pipelines initiatives. This is a hands-on job for a “big data” engineer. The job requires both serious technical chops and effective communication skills. Candidate will help to promote the use of industry and company technology standards while ensuring a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions. Following standard PR review process and following the best practices regarding coding and architectural guidelines are expected. Coding and development with our CI/CD pipeline tools will be critical to the operations, testing and automation.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Ensures solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable, and delivered on schedule.
• Expertise in DevOps and Infrastructure as it relates to AWS Infrastructure and various AWS Services.
• Utilize the various AWS Services (Kinesis, Lambda, S3, Athena, SQS, IAM etc) to provision Data Pipes.
• Design and Manage the API endpoints, and complex Data Pipelines in distributed environment.
• Involved in ETL utilizing Spark, Scala, Python on Databricks for Data Engineering and Architecture.
• Utilize Data Analysis skills, Looker and Spark framework for aggregations and BI Analytical requirements.
• Develop data models and mappings.
• Perform exploratory data analysis on existing products and datasets (both unstructured and structured).
• Implement the design and develop tools that automatically detect data anomalies, enabling Product Analysts and engineers to easily build/manage their own ETLs.
• He/ She will work closely with our Client Development Teams, Platform engineering team, and AI teams to manage all stages of the data pipeline.
• Experience with experimentation A/B Testing Data Pipes and managing KPIs is nice-to-have.
• Monitors current and future trends, technology and information that will positively affect organizational projects; applies and integrates emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture.
• Contributes to the overall system implementation strategy for the enterprise and participates in appropriate forums, meetings, presentations etc. to meet goals.
• We are looking for someone with a strong sense of responsibility: taking pride in your work, leveraging others, owning the problem.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers
• Drive results and growth
• Respect and promote inclusion and diversity
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

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

10 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 on our careers site for more details.

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 on our careers site for more details.