Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, helps local, regional and national advertisers use the best of digital with the power of TV to grow their business. It provides multi-screen marketing solutions to make advertising campaigns more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a presence in 66 markets with nearly 35 million owned and represented subscribers. We’re dedicated to helping our clients meet their business goals by connecting them with their customers through multiscreen television advertising. Working with companies from local startups to nationwide corporations, we provide support to help each business reach its target customers. By applying data to television advertising in new ways, we’re able to bring our clients the best of digital media, coupled with the power of TV. To learn more, check out www.effectv.com.

Job Summary

This role is under the Effectv Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics organization reporting to the Sr. Manager within the Data Ops practice, forming the main bridge between business, analytics, and engineering teams. As a lead position on the team, you will be responsible for maintaining the current analytics and data science platform on AWS + Databricks, strengthening the data observability practice and mentoring team members on the best strategies for implementing data pipelines to produce consumable data for timely, self-serve analytics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Leads the data operations needs for the Insights & Analytics team, providing technical direction and guidance in Spark, Python, AWS Cloud Technologies to address a wide range of advertisement and media related use cases.
• Develops and maintains enterprise infrastructure by creating efficient, adoptable frameworks to be used across the organization for the data operations platforms in use like Databricks, EMR, AWS services, and 3rd party monitoring tools like Monte Carlo and Datadog
• Works on aspects of the design, development, and delivery of data solutions in Databricks, including problem definition, testing and evaluation, as well as deploying end-to-end pipelines and solutions in production with Terraform.
• Helps troubleshoot data pipeline issues and co-ordinate data anomalies across teams as they arise.
• Assists the management team on executing project road maps, priorities, and driving the adoption of a Data DevOps culture.
• 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) as necessary.
• Selected candidate expected to work east coast hours.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications & Tool Familiarity

• 7-10+ years minimum related data work experience; with minimum 2+ experience in being a lead on a technology team.
• B.S. in relevant field (E.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering).
• A strong DevOps, Data Engineering background with working knowledge of data processing, CI/CD, and analytics tools on AWS platform.
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining data control plane software such as Databricks and cloud services.
• Hands-on coding experience in python/Scala, Spark, and visualization tool languages like Looker LookML.
• Expertise in not only debugging and troubleshooting, but also the ability to effectively communicate findings or complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Capable of learning and consuming information quickly, but also receptive to levels of ambiguity.
• Passionate about data and using it to solve difficult problems for the organization at large as well as those of your counterparts.
• Ability to influence data teams to adopt defined best practices and provide ongoing guidance to more junior data engineers and analysts.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with Infrastructure as a Service and Terraform Infrastructure as Code.
• Masters in relevant field of Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering highly preferred.

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 an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Compensation

National Pay Range: $88,227.19 USD-$206,782.47 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's DegreeWhile 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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

7-10 YearsComcast 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. Comcast will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.