Senior Data Engineer: Data Quality & Measurement

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 136,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & long-term incentives

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Data Measurement team to ensure trusted data across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology. You will help define, measure, support, and certify data pipelines serving business needs and millions of users.

Core duties include building models with SQL, Python, and Scala, creating actionable data metrics, and automating data certification workflows while collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams to improve data

Qualifications

• BS in Mathematics, Information Systems or related degree/experience
• 5+ years experience in data engineering
• Ability to read/write complex SQL queries to analyze data
• Familiarity with statistical methods for assessing and evaluating data
• 3+ years of experience with MySQL, Snowflake, Hive
• 3+ years of experience in programming languages like Python or Scala/Java
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills that translate across technical and business domains
• Team-oriented and independently motivated to deliver results
• Patience and resilience in working with ambiguous requirements that characterize innovation projects

Responsibilities

• Leverage SQL, Scala, and Python to build models that measure data quality and availability
• Provide intuitive metrics showing stakeholders the state of their data
• Build and automate data rules to verify data meets boundary conditions
• Automate data certification processes and workflows
• Collaborate with engineering, management, product, and business teams to improve data reliability across products and projects
• Software Engineering & Design 50% of the time
• Stakeholder Engagement 20% of the time
• Monitoring & Research 30% of the time

Skills

SQL

Python

Scala/Java

Data analysis

Communication

Education

BS in Mathematics or Information Systems or related degree/experience

Tools

MySQL

Snowflake

Hive

Tableau

Looker

Git

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Data Measurement team to ensure trusted data across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology. You will help define, measure, support, and certify data pipelines serving business needs and millions of users.

Core duties include building models with SQL, Python, and Scala, creating actionable data metrics, and automating data certification workflows while collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams to improve data