Senior Data Engineer

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You'll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Philadelphia-based WiFi Engineer team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, implementing and analyzing product specifications and WiFi Architecture for Company WiFi and Customer Premises Equipment (customer premise equipment) products.

Job Description

The Senior Data Engineer assists in various project teams, developing test strategies, and designing best practices. Interfaces with the enterprise architecture team, device software team, cloud software team and other functional areas to ensure that the most efficient solution is designed to meet business needs (well-engineered, operable, maintainable and delivered on schedule). Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

This team is based in our cutting-edge Comcast Technology Center in downtown Philadelphia, and collaborates in-person on a hybrid basis.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to map user stories to deliverable solutions.
• Build solution architecture documents for engineering teams.
• Map product requirements to engineering requirements.
• Generate WiFi high level design and architecture document.
• Generate optimal in-home, mesh, outdoor architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve targeted product performance optimization.
• Set system performance key performance indicators for wireless subsystems.
• Interface and collaborate with wireless chipset vendors to ensure system requirements.
• Provide customer experience network optimization roadmap and customer premise equipment roadmap.
• Attend and contribute to wireless standards relevant to the company.
• Prepare standards contribution content; reviews internal WiFi roadmaps and maps to standards readiness.
• Monitor and create contributions for standards.
• Mentor, review code and verify object-oriented design best practices and architectural guidelines are adhered to.
• Design and develop updated infrastructure in support of one or more business processes.
• Optimize WiFi radio parameters to elevate the customer experience and develop metrics to show improvement.
• Build setups to mimic real world environmental conditions.
• Research traffic models and industry trends to provide relevant data for laboratory conditions.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Python
• 5+ years of experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• 5+ Experience in Database technologies, SQL, MySQL, Elastic search, ETLs and framework development.
• 3+ year of experience with Data Modeling
• 3+ Experience working on Big Data
• 5+ Experience with data analysis and visualization, particularly Tableau, Splunk
• Experience processing large data sets
• Strong experience with Spark, Hive, Pig, Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, GCP
• Experience with data quality and validation

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.

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 benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

7-10 Years

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.