Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer , Hyderabad

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands, and franchises across television, film, streaming, and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports, and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team

The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system. Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Roles & Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated Sr Data Engineer to build a state-of-the-art data platform to solve various data-driven use cases across the organization. This platform will host multiple data products, including but not limited to, Theatrical, Home Entertainment, Content Analytics, Studios, E-Commerce and Marketing & Ad-Sales enablement. You will be building a solution in the cloud - handles both streaming and batch data processing, capable of solving any big data initiatives in scope now or in the future.

This individual will bring in his/her expertise in a wide variety of big data processing frameworks (both open source and proprietary), large scale database systems (OLAP and OLTP), Batch & stream data processing.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior data engineers in the team.
• Build software across our entire cutting-edge data platform, including event driven data processing, storage, and serving through scalable and highly available APIs, with cutting-edge technologies.
• Change how we think, act, and utilize our data by performing exploratory and quantitative analytics, data mining, and discovery.
• Work closely with data analysts and business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
• Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks.
• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation.
• Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.

What To Bring
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and apply them at work to stay ahead of the curve.
• Expertise in at least few programming languages - Java, Scala, Python or similar.
• Expertise in distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink or similar.
• Experience in working with Data platforms like Cosmos DB, EMR, Databricks is preferred.
• Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must.
• Experience with API framework(s) for use in data integrations
• Expertise in SQL and No-SQL – Apache Cassandra, DynamoDB, MySQL
• Expertise in OLAP databases such as Snowflake or Redshift.
• Experience with variety of data Tools & frameworks (example: Apache Airflow, Druid) will be a huge plus.
• Expert with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• Experience with Analytics Tools such as Looker, Tableau is preferred.
• Cloud (AWS) experience is preferred
• Direct to consumer digital business or Content/Media & Entertainment experience is preferred
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast-track growth opportunities.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ree2v5-3-148-112-29-42 in your application.