Real-Time Data Platform Engineer – Self-Service Analytics

Paramount Pictures; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 98,400 - 147,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Paramount Pictures in Burbank is seeking a Data Engineer for Self-Service Analytics & Real-Time Data Platforms. You will build scalable data products, semantic layers, and real-time data platforms enabling trusted, governed self-service access to data powering BI, analytics, AI applications and chatbot experiences.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, BI, and Engineering teams to deliver data solutions, design scalable models for analytics and real-time reporting, and implement

Qualifications

• 2–4+ years building and scaling ETL/ELT pipelines in production.
• Workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Composer, or similar platforms.
• SQL & Data Modeling for Analytics & ML
• Expert-level SQL for large-scale transformation and analytics.
• Design scalable warehouse schemas and ML-ready data layers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch (ETL/ELT) and near real-time streaming data pipelines.
• Design and maintain semantic layers, metrics frameworks, and curated data products.
• Enable self-service analytics through governed, reusable business data models.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and operational best practices.
• Develop governed data access patterns for AI, conversational analytics, and MCP-based applications.
• Build AI-ready data products to support ML, GenAI, AI agents, and chatbot applications.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, BI, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions.
• Design scalable data models optimized for analytics, real-time reporting, and AI use cases.
• Develop reusable semantic and transformation layers providing consistent business definitions.
• Drive data quality, governance, metadata, and discoverability.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Airflow/Composer

Distributed processing

SQL for analytics

ML data modeling

Real-time data platforms

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Vertex AI

Databricks ML

Kafka

Superset

Job description

Paramount Pictures in Burbank is seeking a Data Engineer for Self-Service Analytics & Real-Time Data Platforms. You will build scalable data products, semantic layers, and real-time data platforms enabling trusted, governed self-service access to data powering BI, analytics, AI applications and chatbot experiences.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, BI, and Engineering teams to deliver data solutions, design scalable models for analytics and real-time reporting, and implement