Senior Data Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$146.2K - $219.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Engineer
Paramount
• Build and own data marts spanning operational, advertising, and telemetry data — designed for analytics, reporting, AI, and operational use cases • Ingest and process large-volume event data from client apps, ad tech platforms, stitcher services, ad servers, and telemetry pipelines • Clean, harmonize, and integrate data across systems with different schemas, identifiers, grains, and timing — producing conformed dimensions and shared definitions (users, sessions, devices, content, campaigns, impressions) • Stitch identity and sessions across client, server, and ad-side events to enable accurate user, content, and revenue analytics • Troubleshoot data incidents end-to-end — from a dashboard anomaly back through marts, transformations, and raw event logs — and drive permanent fixes • Build, support and improve visualizations in partnership with analysts and stakeholders, ensuring dashboards are accurate, performant, and trusted • Establish data quality standards — testing, monitoring, alerting, freshness and volume SLAs — so issues are caught before stakeholders see them • Document datasets, lineage, and business logic so consumers across analytics, product, and ad ops can self-serve with confidence • Partner closely with analysts, data scientists, ad ops, product, and source-system owners to translate business questions into durable data models • Develop/Improve new or underutilized data sets internally and externally • Analyze complex and huge datasets to o understand patterns and develop actionable insights o develop new initiatives to improve business KPIs such as usage, revenue, etc. o define new metrics and KPIs to track new initiatives • Work closely with all business functions to enable transparent data-based decision making. • Contribute to the daily variance identification across multiple platforms. • Drive complex strategic projects investigations and analysis. • Work cross functionally on enterprise-wide programs with Engineering, Broadcast Operations, Finance, BI and Data Engineering teams to improve performance and profitability. • Research and share information on the latest tools and best practices. • Mentor engineers and analysts on SQL, modeling, event data, and engineering best practices.
Job Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Statistics or related technical field
- 5+ years of data engineering experience building production pipelines and data models
- Expert SQL skills, including performance tuning on large, event-scale datasets
- Strong experience with a cloud warehouse / lakehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)
- Experience working with JSON, Parquet, etc. types of files
- Proficient in Python for data processing and pipeline development
- Experience with dbt (or equivalent transformation framework)
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow)
- Hands-on experience with high-volume event data — clickstream, telemetry, ad impressions, or similar — including deduplication, late-arriving data, sessionization, and schema evolution
- Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, slowly changing dimensions, and data mart design
- Proven track record harmonizing data across multiple source systems with conflicting schemas, identifiers, or grain
- Experience debugging data quality issues across the full stack — from BI tool to warehouse to raw event logs
- Comfort working directly with BI tools (DOMO, Looker, Mode) — both consuming them and supporting their development
- Strong analytical and logical skills.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k) plan
- life insurance coverage
- disability benefits
- tuition assistance program
- PTO
- bonus eligible
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