Data Engineer

Join us at Sky Portugal and be part of our exciting journey to lead the way in the streaming tech world!

As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in our innovative team dedicated to creating exceptional experiences for our global customers.

From powering platforms like NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the United States to Sky’s NOW, and SkyShowtime across Europe, and now Showmax in over 40 countries in Africa, one thing’s for certain, your contributions will impact millions of viewers worldwide.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop and maintain pipelines for ingestion and transformation of multiple data sources, taking responsibility for their monitoring, reliability, and documentation.
• Build, maintain and iterate thru operational software and video streaming performance dashboards, taking responsibility for their accuracy and effectiveness in communicating product performance.
• Undertake ad hoc analysis across the operational and performance data of a video streaming platform, reinforcing a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Work with engineers, architects, and analysts to understand their business-oriented requirements, as well as consolidate, improve access and structure operational and performance data.
• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to deliver actionable insights and accurate reporting on performance and support them in conducting their own analysis.
• Liaise with key stakeholders across the business to ensure companywide initiatives and strategy are being followed.
• Develop a rich understanding of key operational and performance processes and the tools used across experimentation and software development teams.
• Analyse performance and proactively recommend and drive improvements to existing analytics processes and tools.

What You’ll Bring:

• About 2 years of industry experience in data engineering.
• Previous experience in development and maintenance of data pipelines.
• Previous experience with creation, fine tune, and debug of performance metrics (KPIs).
• Proven ability of using industry standard data analytics languages (Python and SQL. R is a plus).
• Previous experience with GCP stack data tools (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Storage, Google Sheets, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc) and Apache Airflow.
• Previous experience with multiple endpoint’s types for data collection (APIs, databases, message queues, local files).
• Experience compiling and organising disparate sources of data into value-adding formats (Looker Studio, Grafana, Tableau, PowerBI, etc).
• A desire to develop and maintain an excellent knowledge of video streaming operations best practices, including processes, tools, and knowledge of the wider industry.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Rewards: Above market salary, yearly bonus, and access to a share-save plan.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Embrace a hybrid working model and enjoy flexible holidays.
• Employee Benefits Plan: Access a wide range of benefits that are designed and tailored to your everyday needs.
• Health and Well-Being: Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.
• Continuous Learning: Access learning and development opportunities and an additional budget that you can use for education and professional training.
• Tech Perks: Mobile phone with a data plan, and access to several partnerships and discounts.
• Entertainment Goodies: Enjoy the best of entertainment with a complimentary SkyShowtime subscription.
• Referral Rewards: Participate in our employee referral program and reap the rewards.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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