Senior Data Engineer

Paramount

Senior Data Engineer developing decision-ready data products for Paramount Streaming. Ingesting and processing high-volume, multi-source data ecosystems for analytical and operational use cases.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $146,160 - $219,240 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowBigQueryCloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and own data marts spanning operational, advertising, and telemetry data — designed for analytics, reporting, AI, and operational use cases
Ingest and process large-volume event data from client apps, ad tech platforms, stitcher services, ad servers, and telemetry pipelines
Clean, harmonize, and integrate data across systems with different schemas, identifiers, grains, and timing — producing conformed dimensions and shared definitions (users, sessions, devices, content, campaigns, impressions)
Stitch identity and sessions across client, server, and ad-side events to enable accurate user, content, and revenue analytics
Troubleshoot data incidents end-to-end — from a dashboard anomaly back through marts, transformations, and raw event logs — and drive permanent fixes
Build, support and improve visualizations in partnership with analysts and stakeholders, ensuring dashboards are accurate, performant, and trusted
Establish data quality standards — testing, monitoring, alerting, freshness and volume SLAs — so issues are caught before stakeholders see them
Document datasets, lineage, and business logic so consumers across analytics, product, and ad ops can self-serve with confidence
Partner closely with analysts, data scientists, ad ops, product, and source-system owners to translate business questions into durable data models
Develop/Improve new or underutilized data sets internally and externally
Analyze complex and huge datasets to o understand patterns and develop actionable insights o develop new initiatives to improve business KPIs such as usage, revenue, etc. o define new metrics and KPIs to track new initiatives
Work closely with all business functions to enable transparent data-based decision making.
Contribute to the daily variance identification across multiple platforms.
Drive complex strategic projects investigations and analysis.
Work cross functionally on enterprise-wide programs with Engineering, Broadcast Operations, Finance, BI and Data Engineering teams to improve performance and profitability.
Research and share information on the latest tools and best practices.
Mentor engineers and analysts on SQL, modeling, event data, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Statistics or related technical field
5+ years of data engineering experience building production pipelines and data models
Expert SQL skills, including performance tuning on large, event-scale datasets
Strong experience with a cloud warehouse / lakehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)
Experience working with JSON, Parquet, etc. types of files
Proficient in Python for data processing and pipeline development
Experience with dbt (or equivalent transformation framework)
Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow)
Hands-on experience with high-volume event data — clickstream, telemetry, ad impressions, or similar — including deduplication, late-arriving data, sessionization, and schema evolution
Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, slowly changing dimensions, and data mart design
Proven track record harmonizing data across multiple source systems with conflicting schemas, identifiers, or grain
Experience debugging data quality issues across the full stack — from BI tool to warehouse to raw event logs
Comfort working directly with BI tools (DOMO, Looker, Mode) — both consuming them and supporting their development
Strong analytical and logical skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k) plan
life insurance coverage
disability benefits
tuition assistance program
PTO
bonus eligible

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondata modelingdata pipeline developmentdimensional modelingdata mart designdata quality testingdata integrationperformance tuningdata analysis

Soft Skills

analytical skillslogical skillsmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailstakeholder managementtranslating business questionsproject management