Sr. Data Engineer

Primary Skills: Python (Expert), Spark (Proficient), SQL (Expert), AWS Technologies (Intermediate), ETL pipelines (Expert)

Contract Type: W2

Duration: 6+ Months with possible extension

Location: Glendale, CA or Seattle WA (#LI-Onsite)

Pay Range: $74.00 - $84.00 Per Hour

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Job Summary:

Join our Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology team as a Senior Data Engineer, committed to reimagining viewing experiences and transforming media business for the future. Our goal is to leverage data in decision-making for product design, advertising efficiency, and content discovery, thereby enhancing our service for users, advertisers, and content partners. We are searching for a highly motivated individual with a strong technical background in Big Data, passionate about developing advanced data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Contribute to the design and expansion of Data Products and Warehouses focusing on Engagement, Retention Analytics, and Data Science.

Design and develop robust data warehousing solutions and build ETL pipelines in diverse Big Data environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).

Utilize technologies like Hadoop, AWS, Snowflake, Spark, and Airflow, and programming languages including Python and Scala.

Architect sophisticated data solutions/frameworks, and define data models for data warehouses and marts.

Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of solutions to meet SLAs with a commitment to customers (Data Science, Data Analytics teams). Must-Have Skills:

6+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines

Strong SQL skills and ability to create queries to extract data and build performant datasets

Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data

Strong programming skills in Python/Scala/Java

Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)

Solid experience with data integration toolsets (i.e Airflow) and writing and maintaining Data Pipelines. ABOUT AKRAYA

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