Principal Analytics Engineer (Data Platform)

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Principal Analytics Engineer - Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Meet our team:

The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system.  Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Principal Analytics Engineer, you will champion overall data and analytics strategy across for various streaming and non-streaming data domains including but not limited to commerce, product, content analytics. You will bring in your expertise in a wide variety of big data processing frameworks, large scale database systems, stream data processing data mart development, BI/Analytics, API Development, to improve data architecture and data product development efficiency.

• Work closely with higher management, business, and product stakeholders to understand BI & AI driven analytics needs; create data strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
• Work closely with data & analytics team to architect various data products which include data marts, data semantic layer, analytics, and third-party system integrations.
• Assist in the preparation of presentations and formal analysis in support of executive decision making and strategy development.
• Promote a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation. Inspire and motivate through internal and external presentations and other speaking opportunities.
• Assist in hiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers. Help build an engineering team that prioritizes empathy, diversity, and inclusion.
• Take on the responsibility for the platform's 24x7 support availability and oversee budgetary concerns, including cloud expenditure.

What to Bring:

• Bachelor's degree, MS or greater in a quantitative field of study (Computer/Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, etc.)
• 16+ years of relevant experience in business intelligence/data engineering.
• Prior experience and deep domain knowledge in Direct-to-Consumer Business based products is critical.
• Expertise in at least few programming languages - Scala, Python or similar.
• Expertise in SQL.
• Expertise in OLAP databases such as Delta Lake, Snowflake, Redshift.
• Expertise with Analytics Tools such as Looker, Tableau or similar.
• Experience in AI driven data analytics is a huge plus.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/  along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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