Senior Data Engineer — Core Data Platform & Pipelines

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); Presencial; USD 144.000 - 193.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to contribute to the Core Data platform, transforming complex data into actionable insights. You will work with Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Kubernetes, and AWS to build scalable pipelines and data services that power analytics across the business.

You'll collaborate with cross‑functional teams, create documentation, and uphold data governance and SLAs while advancing data modeling and cloud‑based data

Formación

• 5+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala).
• Strong SQL skills and ability to create queries to analyze complex datasets.
• Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Spark.
• Hands-on production experience with data pipeline orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with Snowflake is a plus.
• Deep Understanding of AWS or other cloud providers as well as infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices.
• Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Advance understanding of OLTP vs OLAP environments.
• Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skill sets.
• Self-starting problem solver with an eye for detail and excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems equivalent industry experience

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing Core Data platform data pipelines.
• Build tools and services to support data discovery, lineage, governance, and privacy.
• Collaborate with other software/data engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Tech stack includes Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Core Data platform.
• Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for pipeline configurations, naming conventions, and more.
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the Core Data platform datasets to ensure our solutions meet SLAs and project reliability and accuracy to all our stakeholders (Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and Analytics teams).
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team.
• Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements.
• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements.

Conocimientos

Python

Java

Scala

SQL

Spark

Airflow

Databricks

AWS

Data modeling

Scrum/Agile

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Databricks

Airflow

Spark

Delta Lake

Kubernetes

AWS

Snowflake

Descripción del empleo

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to contribute to the Core Data platform, transforming complex data into actionable insights. You will work with Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Kubernetes, and AWS to build scalable pipelines and data services that power analytics across the business.

You'll collaborate with cross‑functional teams, create documentation, and uphold data governance and SLAs while advancing data modeling and cloud‑based data