Analytics Engineer

Job Description:

Title: Analytics Engineer
Location : Philadelphia, PA
Duration : long

Job Summary

• A highly experienced analytics engineer with experience of working with large-scale, distributed data pipelines, you will be responsible for helping create our next-generation analytics platform for the Comcast X1 product.
• Responsibilities span the full engineering lifecycle from architecture and design, data analysis, software development, QA, release and operations support.
• You will be working as a member of a dedicated DevOps team tasked with building and operating the analytics platform.

Job Responsibilities

• Create and support analytics infrastructure to support high-volume and high-velocity data pipelines.
• Develop and test data integration components to high standards of quality and performance.
• Lead code reviews and act as mentor to less experienced members of the team.
• Assist with planning and executing releases of data pipeline components into production.
• Troubleshoot and resolve critical production failures in the data pipeline.
• Research, identify and recommend technical and operational improvements that may result in improved reliability, efficiency and maintenance of the analytics pipeline.
• Evaluate and advise on technical aspects of open work requests in the product backlog with the project lead.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Comp. Science or related field.
• At least 5 years solid development experience working on the Linux/Unix platform.
• 5 to 7 years solid development experience working in Java/Scala
• At least 2 years of that experience should be in the analytics sphere and working with distributed compute frameworks.
• Experience of working in AWS a strong plus.
• Knowledge of the following technologies : Java, Scala, Spark, Storm, Kafka, Kinesis, Avro.