
Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform Operations
NBCUniversal
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define partner onboarding and clean room architecture patterns across Snowflake, LiveRamp, and Databricks that are secure, scalable, and repeatable.
- Configure and manage partner-specific clean room environments; deploy and manage Python-based libraries within the platform ecosystem.
- Establish and maintain MLOps practices, including model serving, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration for AI/ML features deployed within the platform ecosystem.
- Own design and enforcement of granular RBAC policies and least-privilege service accounts.
- Serve as the technical lead for onboarding new partners, implementing privacy-preserving controls (e.g., aggregation thresholds and anonymization techniques).
- Design, build, and operate scalable ELT pipelines using Snowpark and/or PySpark and advanced SQL to provision Gold datasets.
- Implement and evolve identity resolution logic mapping internal data to 3P identifiers (including LUIDs, RampIDs, TransUnion IDs), ensuring privacy-safe practices.
- Design and operate scalable data architectures across Snowflake and Databricks supporting batch and near real-time processing patterns.
- Build robust automated checks (e.g., Great Expectations or custom SQL assertions) and define quality standards to detect schema drift, null rate spikes, and volume anomalies.
- Lead performance optimization across platforms (query tuning, caching, incremental processing) and define and implement query tagging and chargeback models for accurate cost attribution.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and standard operating procedures to improve platform reliability and reduce incident time-to-resolution.
- Validate that output data adheres to privacy and business requirements, and define test strategies for partner-facing releases.
- Serve as the escalation point for diagnosing connection failures, data discrepancies, or latency issues with partner technical teams.
- Design and build internal AI agents (using frameworks like LangChain, Snowflake Cortex) and mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and operational best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering
- 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, with deep proficiency in advanced SQL and Python
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, specifically Snowflake or Databricks
- Proven experience building and operating scalable ELT pipelines using orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
- Strong track record designing production-grade systems (observability, reliability, performance tuning, incident response)
- Clean Room Knowledge: Exposure to Data Clean Room concepts and Clean Room platforms like LiveRamp, Snowflake or Databricks
- AI/LLM Experience: Experience building applications with LLMs, RAG, Vector Databases, or frameworks like LangChain/LlamaIndex.
- Ability to mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and operational best practices
- SnowPro Core Certification OR Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (preferred)
- SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer OR Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional (highly preferred)
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- paid leave
- tuition reimbursement
- a variety of other discounts and perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Pythonadvanced SQLELT pipelinesMLOpsdata architecturedata clean roomquery tuningperformance optimizationidentity resolutionautomated checks
Soft skills
mentoringleadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationincident responsedesign discussionscode reviewsorganizational skillstechnical leadership
Certifications
SnowPro Core CertificationDatabricks Certified Data Engineer AssociateSnowPro Advanced: Data EngineerDatabricks Certified Data Engineer Professional