Data Engineer, Business Intelligence

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Background

Gracenote is the world’s leading entertainment data and technology company. We power the top music services, consumer electronics companies, automakers, media companies and cable and satellite operators on the planet. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love.

Gracenote does this by

1) Global Databases - Creating, collecting and organizing detailed information about TV shows, 
sports, movies and music
.

2) Best-in-Class Experience - Building best-in-class services and technologies to make TV, sports, movies and music more accessible to and discoverable by fans.

3) Highly Scalable Platform - All on a highly scalable platform that serves billions every month. The data Gracenote creates and the tech we invent is essential to 80% of Forbes’ Most Valuable Brands in Automotive, Media and Tech.

Job Purpose

We are presently looking for a Data Engineer as a part of our Gracenote Quality Office team. The Quality Office is responsible for designing and implementing quality management solutions across Product, Operations, Technology & Commercial.

This role is to assist in the organization’s journey to leverage our vast metadata content. Collaborating with multiple teams to measure and improve data quality, and access and combine datasets for use in quality projects, is paramount to succeed in this role. Familiarity with data integration, AWS cloud services, analytical systems, data harmonization, and data automation is key in this role.

\nResponsibilities:

• Works with the Quality Office and cross-functional teams on data quality and implement systems to make them visible with metrics and thresholds
• Responsible for building data pipelines and data integration projects to measure quality
• Build and optimize data queries from multiple relational databases, data warehouses, and data lakes for various analyses and requests
• Support the team to production business requests and analysis, while building tools and infrastructure to improve their speed and effectiveness
• Ability to translate raw data into visualizations to be understood by multiple (technical and non-technical stakeholders) or in data staging.
• Build on the cloud

Core Requirements

• Data engineer with 3-5 years experience in cloud (AWS etc), Python, Spark, SQL, Big-data solutions
• Clear database fundamentals, data integration, transformation, distributed computing, and building robust and scalable solutions.
• Knowledge of API, BI and AI/ML is preferred.

Skills:

• Experience in data integration of multiple databases (RDS, Aurora, SQL data stores - Postgres, Oracle, MySQL; data warehouses - Redshift, Snowflake)
• Strong hands-on experience with data warehousing, ETL, dashboarding, and reporting, involving large datasets and multiple data sources
• Knowledge of Cloud Data Platform/ Services. E.g. AWS S3 /Glue/Lambda/Athena/ EMR/ IAM/ EC2/ Kinesis/ Terraform cloud formation/ Autoscaling etc.
• Experience in distributed computing/scripting (Spark, Python) with a track record of clean, efficient code design.
• Sound understanding of SQL fundamentals and experience with data warehousing, data modeling and schema.
• Dedicated to fast and continual learning - technologies, languages, systems, etc.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Analytical, problem-solving solving, and demonstrated follow-through.

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