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Comcast Development Engineer 4 in Chennai, India
Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.
Job Summary
Communications Engineering is looking for a Sr. Data engineer who is passionate about leveraging technology to derive meaningful insights using data. As a Sr. Data Engineer, you are responsible for transforming large, complex data into consumable business databases and applications for self-service analytics and reporting. Create system architecture, design and specification using in-depth engineering skills and knowledge to solve difficult development problems and achieve engineering goals. Determine and source appropriate data for a given analysis. Work with data modelers/analysts to understand the business problems they are trying to solve then create or augment data assets to feed their analysis. Has in-depth experience, knowledge, and skills in own discipline. Usually determines own work priorities. Acts as resource for colleagues with less experience.
Job Description
Who We are
The Communications Engineering organization at Comcast innovates, develops, delivers, and operates voice and unified communications products to our residential, commercial, and wholesale customers. As a member of this team, you will be part of a high-performance engineering organization focused on providing the most reliable, secure, and high-quality experience at scale to our customers. Our teams achieve this outcome by continuously improving our products utilizing modern DevSecOps practices in an end-to-end approach. Our culture focuses on constant learning, embracing diversity, fostering inclusivity, empowering individuals, dynamic collaboration, and promoting open communications. Comcast voice and unified communications products set the standard in a highly competitive marketplace, and it is through our technology driven approach that we achieve the best customer experience for our products.
Major Job Responsibilities
Partners with Engineering project Manager to provide consultative direction and develops long term objectives and plans to determine resources, technology and course of action to achieve results.
Anticipates and Interprets customer needs, assesses requirements and identifies solutions.
Participates in the review of failures and Provides feedback to prevent future occurrences.
Build and manage Data pipelines to analyze huge datasets .
Design, deploy and manage scalable and fault tolerant data infrastructure to perform ETL operations.
Collaborate with key stake holders and translate business requirements to technical requirements and implement solutions under the guidance of technical leads.
Perform engineering tasks such as database design, data manipulation, ETL, implementation, information storage and retrieval, data flow and analysis.
Solves critical issues and shares knowledge such as trends, aggregate, quantity volume regarding specific data sources.
Participate in the implementation of solutions via data architecture, data engineering, or data manipulation within big data systems like Hadoop , Spark, FluentD , Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB or SQL.
Experience with observability solutions for monitoring, alerting, and ad-hoc troubleshooting (Grafana, Alerta , ELK, Splunk, Cloudwatch , Datadog, etc.)
Acts as a liaison between business owners and technical associates to ensure the data collected and processed is both actionable and relevant to the end goals.
Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization.
Interacts closely with cross teamwork streams and suggests areas of improvement to development teams to improve operation efficiency.
Responds to customer concerns in a timely and efficient manner.
Responsible for database access requests, data security and governance.
Creates and maintains documentation for the process and tools used by the team.
Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Minimum 6-8 years of experience writing data pipelines using Python or Scala is a must .
Minimum 6-8 years of e xperience in consolidating and integrating data from multiple sources ( On-Premise & Cloud).
Minimum 6-8 years of experience in analyzing, transforming, and aggregating large data sets (Big Data) using Data processing Engines ( Pyspark , Apache Flink ) .
Minimum 6-8 years of experience in observability solutions for dashboarding, monitoring, alerting, and ad-hoc troubleshooting (Grafana, Alerta , ELK, Splunk, Cloudwatch , Datadog, etc.)
Minimum 6-8 years of experience in dashboarding the transformed data using BI tools ( Tableau, Apache Superset or Apache Redash ) is a must .
Strong understanding of database structures, NoSQL or SQL query languages ( Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgres ), fundamentals of mathematics, distributed systems (Hadoop), data science, and statistical concepts is a must .
Ability to automate PySpark Jobs using Lambda / Python and fine tune for performance.
Ability to use messaging queues like Kafka, FluentD or Logstash is a must .
Ability to Architect and Design Big Data Analytics solutions on cloud .
Experience with open stack cloud or AWS platform .
Experience in AI/ML is a plus.
Knowledge of Media /Advertising industry is a plus.
Other Core Responsibilities
Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
Designs new software and web applications, supports applications under development and customizes current applications. Develops software update process for existing applications. Assists in the roll-out of software releases.
Trains junior Software Development Engineers on internally developed software applications.
Oversees the researching, writing and editing of documentation and technical requirements, including evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
Keeps current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Reviews literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
Provides technical leadership throughout the design process and guidance with regards to practices, procedures and techniques. Serves as a guide and mentor for junior level Software Development Engineers.
Assists in tracking and evaluating performance metrics. Ensures team delivers software on time, to specification and within budget.
Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements.
Displays expertise in knowledge of engineering methodologies, concepts and skills and their application in the area of specified engineering specialty.
Displays expertise in process design and redesign skills. Presents and defends architectural, design and technical choices to internal audiences.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
- This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
7-10 Years
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