Sr Data Engineer
Gannett
Job Info
Sr Data Engineer
McLean, VA, USA ● United States Req #22814
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.
Our current portfolio of media assets includes USA TODAY, local media organizations in 46 states in the U.S., and Newsquest, a wholly owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom with more than 120 local news media brands. Gannett also owns the digital marketing services companies ReachLocal, Inc., UpCurve, Inc., and WordStream, Inc., which are marketed under the LOCALiQ brand, and runs the largest media-owned events business in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.
To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com.
Our current portfolio of media assets includes USA TODAY, local media organizations in 46 states in the U.S., and Newsquest, a wholly owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom with more than 120 local news media brands. Gannett also owns the digital marketing services companies ReachLocal, Inc., UpCurve, Inc., and WordStream, Inc., which are marketed under the LOCALiQ brand, and runs the largest media-owned events business in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.
To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com.
Sr Data Engineer
Position Summary
Our Senior Data Engineer is responsible for ETL pipelines in the Gannett Enterprise Data Platform. You create resilient, scalable data pipelines that help our product, business and marketing teams innovate while understanding key performance & business metrics. The ideal candidate is excited to work with large diverse datasets and with a diverse team.
The Data Engineering team is part of Gannett's Enterprise Data Management organization. Our charter is to build, support, and govern an enterprise data platform with reliability, accessibility, and quality as key tenets. The Senior Data Engineer is a direct report to the Data Engineering Director.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and optimize data pipelines for our Enterprise Data Platform using Google Cloud Platform technologies.
- Ingest new data sources from initial discovery & data architecture, through ETL authoring, operationalizing using Dataflow, Airflow (Cloud Composer) DAGs, and post launch lifecycle.
- Research and test new big-data technologies and tools.
- Advanced SQL queries, and modeling.
- Help drive the roadmap of the Data Engineering team and Gannett's Enterprise Data Platform.
- Engage vendors with required features to meet business needs.
- Leverage the full value out our vendor integrations and APIs.
- Optimize BigQuery and ETL resources to decrease spend & increase performance.
- Help guide team of engineers on best practices, standards, and toolsets to author ETL Engineering pipelines
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science or similar majors with a GPA of at least 3.0 or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in at least one OOP language, preferably Python
- Deep SQL knowledge / experience
- Experience in complex pipeline task management (i.e., Airflow and Beam)
- Experience with Github
Desired Qualifications
- Google Cloud Platform tools or equivalent platform experience using tools s/a BigQuery, Dataflow / Apache Beam, Cloud Composer / Airflow, Apache Spark, Pub/Sub
- Experience in Apache Beam
- Experience with Scala
- Experience with Scalr/Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD
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Gannett Co., Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a diverse workforce. As such, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment and do not discriminate in connection with employment decisions on the basis of an applicant or employee's race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance (including height and weight), sexual orientation, family responsibilities, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), education, genetic characteristics or information, political affiliation, military or veteran status or other classifications protected by applicable federal, state and local laws in the jurisdictions where Gannett employs employees. In addition, Gannett Co., Inc. will provide applicants who require a reasonable accommodation, as a result of an applicant's disability or religion, to complete this employment application and/or any other process in connection with an individuals' application for employment with Gannett Co., Inc. Applicants who require such accommodation should contact Gannett Co., Inc.'s Recruitment Department at Recruit@gannett.com.
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- Job Family Development & Engineering
- Job Function Technology
- Pay Type Salary
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