Lead Data Engineer - Content Analytics & Pipelines

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 152,200 - 204,100; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and build data pipelines for Content performance metrics. You will mentor junior engineers, shape data products and warehouses, and collaborate with product and analytics teams using Airflow and Snowflake-based architectures.

The role requires 7+ years of data engineering experience, strong data modeling skills, and expertise in SQL performance tuning, with a fast-paced, collaborative

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience building large data pipelines.
• Strong data modeling knowledge including dimensional modeling and normalization.
• Good understanding of SQL engines and advanced performance tuning.
• Ability to think strategically and analyze market and consumer information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent conceptual and analytical reasoning capabilities.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum principles and ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex technical problems.
• Lead and contribute to data products and data warehouses for content movements and metrics.
• Apply sophisticated analytical thinking to identify innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with Data Product Managers, Data Architects and other Data Engineers to design and deliver data solutions.
• Design table structures and ETL pipelines for performant, scalable data solutions.
• Develop data quality checks.
• Develop and maintain ETL routines using Airflow.
• Mentor and coach junior data engineers.

Skills

Data engineering

Data modeling

SQL performance tuning

Strategic thinking

Communication

Analytical reasoning

Agile/Scrum

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/IS or related

Master’s Degree (plus)

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake

Redshift

Databricks/EMR/Spark

Nifi

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and build data pipelines for Content performance metrics. You will mentor junior engineers, shape data products and warehouses, and collaborate with product and analytics teams using Airflow and Snowflake-based architectures.

The role requires 7+ years of data engineering experience, strong data modeling skills, and expertise in SQL performance tuning, with a fast-paced, collaborative