Director, Data & Analytics

Summary

Join NBCUniversal's Enterprise Data & Analytics Engineering team as a Data & Analytics Director to lead a team of engineers in building next-gen enterprise data solutions. You will plan and execute data and analytics engineering programs, architect and build data solutions across multiple domains, and partner with various teams to deliver data-driven insights. Responsibilities include implementing scalable data processes, growing team expertise, organizing metadata resources, and investigating new technologies. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of experience in architecting and building data solutions at scale, along with expertise in data modeling and cloud data platforms. A proven track record of managing multi-million dollar budgets and developing talent is essential. This fully remote position offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and tuition reimbursement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience architecting and building data solutions at scale
• 5+ years relevant experience in delivering data platforms, data governance at an enterprise level and leading a data management and platform engineering team
• Hands-on production workload experience with cloud data platforms at scale (Snowflake, AWS Redshift, GCP Big Query and/or Azure Synapse)
• Experience building data pipelines, ideally using SQL, Python, Spark, dbt, and orchestrated in Apache Airflow, MWAA (Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow); Google Cloud Dataflow is a huge plus
• Working experience unlocking the value of data with visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Data Studio)
• Passion for data science and machine learning using R, Databricks and ability to operationalize models
• Expertise in data modeling and establishing data architecture across multiple systems
• Proficiency in Python, or willingness to grow into Python from your other scripting languages (i.e., Java, Scala)
• Knowledge of data federation technologies (Starburst, Dremio, Presto) and working understanding of data models and how they impact performance
• Passion for learning, solving problems, and creating clarity out of ambiguity
• Proven track record of managing multi-million dollar budgets across a diverse portfolio ensuring financial targets are met and tied to prioritized delivery of business value. This includes employee C&B, consultants, and software/cloud spend across several projects and products with demands from multiple stakeholders
• Must be able to recruit, manage and develop talent - always sharing knowledge, providing feedback, challenging your teams, and reaching quick and equitable solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science/Analytics, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute data and analytics engineering programs, formulate strategies for solving business problems, and develop capabilities to scale the impact of data through the development of self-service analytics and insights
• Architect and build data solutions across multiple domains
• Partner with data scientists, business solutions, enterprise product, and engineering teams, to deliver data and analytics that advance our mission to be a data-driven company transforming the industry
• Implement scalable data processes to achieve 99.99% reliability and availability
• Grow the technical expertise of the team - build and lead a team of data engineers, ML engineers, data visualization and analytics engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Organize and socialize metadata resources, such as data lineage documents, data mappings, data dictionaries, training documents, knowledge base/wiki, etc
• Investigate new and developing technologies as they appear in industry and academia and determine how to leverage these new technologies into our data solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaboration is key. We are a team of selfless data nerds who want to solve problems and enable transformation through faster insights and analytics. We believe that we will build better solutions by working together
• Communication and empathy. Ability to understand business needs and translate to technical deliverables so the team can execute with context
• We are passionate about our products. Media experience helps but if you enjoy a good movie, binge-watching, or a roller coaster, that’s a start

Benefits

• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks
• Salary range: $130,000 - $200,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)