Sr. Data Engineer

Job Description

Summary of Position

The STARZ Data Products & Engineering team is seeking a data engineer who's passionate about drawing a thin line from data to insight and exposing that insight to internal users to support important business decisions. You'll be building data pipelines, crafting our data processing framework, and helping us to integrate disparate signals into a clear picture of where the organization is at and where we can go. We're building out a system of experimentation so teams can use that picture to form hypotheses, test them, and easily see the results.

From rendered reports sent via Slack for easy mobile consumption to Google sheets integrations to allow for flexible reporting for end users, you'll be working across our entire technology stack to find places where we can use data to improve our business. Our users range from extremely technical (providing us with models to run, and wanting tables or files in return) to less technical (providing inputs via a UI or spreadsheet and expecting results displayed in-line or in a report). This is an opportunity to exercise your technical skills with a highly skilled team from a variety of diverse backgrounds while helping every aspect of our business to be more efficient and more data-driven.

Responsibilities
• Develop, test and maintain optimal data processing pipelines and related architectures, ensuring the overall solution will support business requirements

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using cloud-native technologies

• Selection of internal and external datasets to examine for acquisition to drive value in the organization

• Develop appropriate automated tests, environments, and infrastructure

• Present findings to key stakeholders, translating highly technical details for a potentially non-technical audience

• Any other responsibilities that are necessary to achieve the strategic goals of executive leadership

Experience & Skills
• Proficiency deploying scalable and highly available applications

• Proficiency with Python, SQL, (or relevant programming languages)

• Proficiency with Spark, and experience running it in a distributed environment (YARN, Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of source control management (git), coding standards, code review, and build processes (codepipeline, codebuild, codedeploy)

• Familiarity with the AWS suite of technologies (EMR, S3, Glue, ECS, SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, Cloudformation)

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, applied math, statistics or other relevant quantitative discipline, or equivalent industry experience

About the Company

Business Unit Overview

Starz
With the Company aligning its studio operations behind the growth of its streaming business, Starz has become one of the pre-eminent modern premium global streaming platforms. Offering subscribers more than 7.500 television episodes, including Starz original series and provocative documentaries, along with a broad catalogue of first-run movies, Starz is taking the lead in delivering relatable premium content that makes it the platform of choice among a wide spectrum of female, African-American and other historically underserved audiences. Its focused brand, premium content and freedom from legacy relationships position Starz at the forefront of the new bundles emerging throughout the media ecosystem, a compelling value proposition to complement virtually every kind of subscription platform.

Distinguished by its successful and focused content strategy, top programming, exceptional curation and speed to market, Starz has quickly scaled its platform to become one of the most widely distributed and fastest-growing OTT services in the world, with OTT subscribers making up more than half of its global subscriber base. The Starzplay International premium subscription service offers a ''best of global SVOD'' content portfolio in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada, Japan and India through a bespoke and expanding network of distribution partners. The Starzplay Arabia joint venture is one of the leading SVOD operators in the fast-growing Middle East and North Africa region. The proprietary and highly-rated Starz app, a proven hit with US audiences, continues to roll out internationally.
Our Benefits
• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental

• Annual discretionary bonus and merit increase

• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day

• 401(k) company matching

• Tuition Reimbursement (up to graduate degree)

Compensation

$122,400 - $149,300

EEO Statement

Nearest Major Market: Denver

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g36qpx-18-224-33-235-42 in your application.