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SalaryDisney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also redefining Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Building the future of Disney’s media business:DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation:We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
As a Sr Data Engineer, you will be a domain expert in business intelligence tools, collaborating with teams on standard methodologies and own administration tasks such setting user provisioning, handling security models, and performing upgrades. You will construct semantic layers for Looker, MicroStrategy, Tableau, and In-House Tools on top of our big data warehouse, making sure the data is represented to analysts in an accurate, consistent, and performant way. The ideal candidate understands sophisticated data models, has strong communication skills, and has deep experience in business intelligence tools. If you are someone who can find beauty in organized datasets, then this is a phenomenal role for you.
What You Will Do
Responsible for design, initial installation, configuration, daily operations, and user support of business intelligence environments for Looker, Tableau and other BI tools including DEV, QA Production, high availability and disaster recovery instances.
Leads system security, user provisioning and license compliance within Looker, Tableau, and MicroStrategy environments.
Works with Data Engineering to create LookML models to support reporting
Support upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting for business intelligence tools
Monitor system and server health
Troubleshoot connection and performance issues (including troubleshooting SQL queries)
Tune business intelligence tools to optimize performance and ensure high availability
Work with IT to create and monitor backup and logging strategy
Monitors and tunes BI tools to ensure optimum level of performance.
Collects and analyzes system operational information for capacity and planning purposes.
Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that the system is supportable by other team members.
Provides updates to our customers, business and staff on a timely basis for projects and tasks.
Required Qualifications & Skills
At least 5 years experience with business intelligence tools, with at least 3 of those years working with Looker (Tableau, MicroStrategy experience also helpful).
3+ years focused on tasks like maintaining security, setting up users, supervising and troubleshooting
Experience writing and solving complex SQL queries
Preferred Qualifications
Strong understanding of data warehouse concepts
Basic Windows and Linux server administration skills
Experience with a programming language such as Python
ETL/ELT experience
Experience working with data APIs
Familiarity with setting up SAML/SSO in Business Intelligence tools
Ability to organize and prioritize tasks for projects as well as daily support requests/issues.
Must be able to effectively interact with both business and technical resources to understand and resolve issues as well as deliver projects.
Must have problem solving skills in relation to system operations as well as product usage.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
Additional Information
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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $136,100.00 to $182,400.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $149,000.00 to $199,800.00 per year, in Seattle, WA is $142,600.00 to $191,100.00 per year, and in New York, NY is $142,600.00 to $191,100.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
