London, United Kingdom
1 day ago
Analytics Engineer II

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.

Your New Role...

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.

Your Role Accountabilities...

We are looking for a highly motivated Analytics Engineer II to help contribute to a state-of-the-art data platform and help solve various data-driven use cases across the organization. This platform will host various data products such as but not limited to, Subscription, Growth, Identity, Retention, Content, and Product Analytics. You will be passionate about data, as a first-class citizen to empower and enable data-driven business decisions. They will lead our analytics efforts through building data connections with stakeholders and measurement partners utilizing WBD’s proprietary data sets, while adhering to data governance and privacy compliance standards. You will drive our modernization efforts to ensure our data flows, processing, and reporting are accurate, insightful and competitive within the industry.

This is a collaborative role that requires multiple partners in order to be successful – you will work closely with senior leadership, Research, Marketing, Product Management, Architects, and Developers to design, build, and deploy best-in-class data solutions, audience activation and measurement tools that meet the growing analytical needs of our organization.

You will bring in your expertise in a wide variety of big data processing frameworks (both open source and proprietary), large scale database systems (OLAP and OLTP), stream data processing to build and support all the data needs across our platform.

Design and implement data models that support flexible querying and data visualization.

Partner with Product stakeholders to understand business questions and build out advanced analytical solutions.

Advance automation efforts that help the team spend less time manipulating & validating data and more time analyzing.

Build frameworks that multiply the productivity of the team and are intuitive for other data teams to leverage.

Participate in the creation and support of analytics development standards and best practices.

Create systematic solutions for solving data anomalies: identifying, alerting, and root cause analysis.

Work proactively with stakeholders to ready data solutions for new product and/or feature releases, with a keen eye for uncovering and troubleshooting any data quality issues or nuances.

Identify and explore new opportunities through creative analytical and engineering methods.

Change how we think, act, and utilize our data by performing exploratory and quantitative analytics, data mining, and discovery.

Think of new ways to help make our data platform more scalable, resilient and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.

Work closely with data analysts and business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.

Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks.

Participate in supporting the platform 24X7.

Qualifications and Experience...

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline

At least two years of experience in Business Intelligence and/or Data Engineering

Ability and willingness to learn any new technologies and apply them at work in order to stay ahead of the curve.

Expertise in writing SQL (clean, fast code is a must) and in data-warehousing concepts such as star schemas, slowly changing dimensions, ELT/ETL, and MPP databases

Experience in transforming flawed/changing data into consistent, trustworthy datasets, and in developing DAGs to batch-process millions of records

Experience with general-purpose programming (e.g. Python, Java, Go), dealing with a variety of data structures, algorithms, and serialization formats

Experience with big-data technologies (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Hive)

Advanced ability to build reports and dashboards with BI tools (such as Looker and Tableau)

Experience with analytics tools such as Athena, Redshift/BigQuery, Splunk, etc.

Proficiency with Git (or similar version control) and CI/CD best practices

Experience in managing workflows using Agile practices

Ability to write clear, concise documentation and to communicate generally with a high degree of precision

Ability to solve ambiguous problems independently

Ability to manage multiple projects and time constraints simultaneously

Care for the quality of the input data and how the processed data is ultimately interpreted and used

Experience with digital products, streaming services, or subscription products is preferred

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Direct to consumer digital business experience is preferred

Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

Characteristics & Traits...

Naturally inquisitive, critical thinker, proactive problem-solver, and detail-oriented.

Positive attitude and an open mind

Strong organizational skills with the ability to act independently and responsibly

Self-starter, comfortable initiating projects from design to execution with minimal supervision

Ability to manage and balance multiple (and sometimes competing) priorities in a fast-paced, complex business environment and can manage time effectively to consistently meet deadlines

Team player and relationship builder

#Li-hybrid

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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