Senior Manager, Data Instrumentation

Company: Disney
Location: Lynbrook
Posted on: December 5, 2019

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Manager to join our Data Instrumentation team. This role will be tasked with managing a team of analysts to ensure critical systems data is of high quality, working directly with our front-end and back-end development teams. This position will be a key contributor to the success of our data strategy and responsible for instrumenting and deploying production processes to ensure data quality assurance and completeness across the complete data lifecycle

At DSS, data is central to measuring all aspects of the business, and critical to its operations and growth. Data Instrumentation works closely with data stakeholders, front-end technology teams, data engineering, and back-end services for consistent collection and usage of business critical KPIs and datapoints.

• BA or BS in a quantitative field (Business, Math/Statistics, Economics, CS, Engineering, or similar) is desired
• Minimum two years of experience in technology industry, knowledge of marketing platforms and datasets a plus.
• 6+ years of experience in data driven analysis as a data analyst, scientist, or similar role
• Including 3+ years of experience managing a team and 2+ years of Python, Spark and SQL is required
• Strong sense of ownership over deliverables, as this role will have end-to-end responsibilities for certain data products
• Strong experience in deploying business critical code into production
• High familiarity with data platforms and applications such as Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills ------ written, visual, and verbal presentations
• Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues, analyze the cause, quickly come-up with the possible solution(s), document the changes, and communicate the change across the organization
• Manage a team of analysts responsible for data integrity and data quality assurance for critical data sources.
• Understanding business requirements and translating them into actionable specifications while owning end-to-end data lifecycle including how data should be tracked and measured for analysis, reporting and data quality assurance.
• Perform cross system data investigations and analysis to discover data inconsistencies, outlining path to remediation for development teams.
• Understand the systems and business processes that populate critical systems with data.
• Work with stakeholders to outline and define data definitions and apply appropriate usage.
• Work to support engineering teams tasked with ingestion of critical datasets as a subject matter expert.
• Serve as a thought leader in terms of what needs to be managed and improved to better serve our customers.
• Perform data quality audits, identify data collection issues, suggest improvements, and help implement fixes.
• Create and manage key data quality health KPIs through regular metric monitoring and revise as needed as the number of datasets and critical systems expand.
• Work as a lead data steward hand-in-hand with the managers of the operating systems to convey the data quality needs. Preferred Education :
• 6+ years of experience in data driven analysis as a data analyst, scientist, or similar role
• Including 3+ years of experience managing a team and 2+ years of Python, Spark and SQL is required
• Strong sense of ownership over deliverables, as this role will have end-to-end responsibilities for certain data products
• Strong experience in deploying business critical code into production
• High familiarity with data platforms and applications such as Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills ------ written, visual, and verbal presentations
• Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues, analyze the cause, quickly come-up with the possible solution(s), document the changes, and communicate the change across the organizationCompany Overview : English

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