Senior Director Data Engineering Details

Senior Director Data Engineering

Pluto TV - Los Angeles, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Pluto TV, a ViacomCBS company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.

Job Description

Do you love working with data? Are you interested in Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering? Do you
have a proven track record of leading a team of engineers? If so, ViacomCBS Digital Streaming offers an
opportunity to unleash those skills across media environments spanning Entertainment, Sports, and News on
sites like Pluto TV, Paramount+, CBS.com, CBSSports.com, and CBSNews.

As a Senior Data Engineer Director, you will be part of a high-performing team within the Data Insight
Group's Data Management and Engineering team. You will be collaborating with Business Intelligence,
Advanced Analytics, Marketing, Finance, Product, and other engineering teams, building out scalable Data
products and solutions that power business decisions.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Technical lead for strategic initiatives on data in support of ViacomCBS/Pluto TV Streaming group

and advocate solutions across BUs.

• Present the team’s work (in writing and orally) to key stakeholders and manage the pipeline/ inflow

of planned and ad hoc requests from stakeholders

• Aligned with the stakeholder leadership team's vision and strategy to create, communicate and steer

annual roadmaps containing key short, midterm, and long-term projects that add value to the
business.

• Recruit, provide leadership, coaching, mentorship, and visibility to a diverse team of Data/Software

Engineers.

• Conduct regular skill assessments and job development sessions with team members in order to help

them grow in their careers.

• Collaborate with other engineering leaders across ViacomCBS to determine best practices,

opportunities for collaboration around data management, software engineering, and infrastructure.

• Plan and be accountable for delivering systems and tools that extract patterns from large data sets and

transform data into an informational advantage and implement them into live systems.

• Partner with business users, product, marketing, data analytics, and data science teams in delivering a

data engineering roadmap that supports sustainable growth & retention for the business.

Qualifications:
What you bring to the team. You have:

• BS degree in Statistics, Engineering, Informatics, Computer Science or related field, with a

demonstrated passion for data science and data engineering.

• 5+ Years and strong experience in one of these components: Data Engineering, Software

Development, Data Science, or Big Data Architecture

• 6+ years leading a team of engineers with various backgrounds.
• Solid experience with data engineering, architecture on big data platforms as well as sound software

engineering principles.

• Experience working in a cloud platform (Google Cloud Platform, AWS preferred)
• Experience with Big Data Management systems (BQ, Snowflake, Teradata)
• Experience in Python and Python Web and/or MVC frameworks.
• Skillful in large-scale data in structured and unstructured environments.
• Possess the ability and drive to learn new tools, frameworks, and technologies and stay on top of data

science and management trends.

• Experience in Agile Methodology and Tools.
• Proactive and strategic thinker with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must successfully pass a background check

You might also have:

• Experience with Github or other version control systems.
• Familiarity with exploratory data analysis using tools like Jupyter Labs, Pandas & matplotlib, etc.
• Understanding with Apache Airflow.
• Understanding with Adobe Analytics (Omniture) or Google Analytics.
• Experience working with Log Level Datasets.
• Familiarity with REST-based services (calling, building).

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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