Data Engineer 2 - Reston, VA - Freewheel

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

This job is integral to the development and optimization of data structures and pipelines, ensuring quality and efficient data flow. It supports advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives, while also managing data storage solutions. The role requires collaboration with partners for process optimization and adherence to data governance standards.

Job Description

• Proven exposure to at-least one of the major programming language - Python, Golang, Java
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Exposure to modern data stack (dbt, airflow, snowflake) but not required
• Exposure to highly collaborative environments

Responsibilities:

• Developing data structures and pipelines to collect, standardize, and transform data for insight generation and reporting
• Ensuring data quality throughout ingestion, processing, and loading to target tables, with a focus on standardization and transformation rules
• Creating ingestion frameworks for various data types and establishing methods for data consumption through views, extracts, and APIs
• Maintaining data warehouses and lakes, including API development for data access, while managing solutions on Snowflake, and Databricks platforms
• Understanding data lineage and transformation to enable efficient troubleshooting and impact analysis during system changes
• Collaborating with technology partners to optimize data sourcing, processing rules, and ensure process optimization and data quality
• Handling data migrations and conversions in response to evolving platforms and new standards, while recognizing and resolving technical issues
• Designing and monitoring ETL processes to support efficient data flow and collaborating with analytics teams for model deployments
• Participating in code reviews and contributing to data governance and compliance efforts in adherence to industry regulations
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• 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.

Skills

Data Structures, Python (Programming Language), Structured Query Language (SQL)

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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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years

Comcast is 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, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.