Specialist, Data Engineer

Do you have a passion for digging for answers in data, solving problems that nobody else can solve using the latest analytics, data science and machine learning techniques? Do you thrive in ambiguity and teams where little direction fuels creativity?

The DIRECTV Data & Analytics Operations team is looking for a curious, talented, and highly motivated data engineer, to eventually grow in Data Science / ML role to work closely with the IT, Sales, and Marketing organizations across our MyFreeDIRECTV, streaming and satellite TV products to formulate hypotheses and machine learning opportunities and work through the lifecycle of delivering these insights and solutions to production.

This is the perfect opportunity to become a part of a fast paced and innovative team that leverages the latest statistical, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques and technologies to solve real world problems and drive business value.

Here's what you’ll do:

• Gathers, analyzes, and interprets a wide variety of data to identify causal relationships, trigger points, and ultimately make predictions on customer behavior.
• Projects may include churn analysis, customer behavior and segmentation, sales analysis, product level analysis (adoption, price elasticity modeling), and customer experience analysis.
• Ensures data quality with tests, logging, and alerting; troubleshoot pipeline issues.
• Optimizes queries and jobs (partitioning, indexing, file formats, resource tuning).
• Builds predictive models using data, tests the model on results outside of the sample size, and verifies the model in the real world.
• Quantifies significance of data variances, applies an array of statistical methods ranging from traditional to newly developing within the Big-Data space.
• Uses machine learning / AI techniques to build models that support decision making.
• Develops reports, charts, tables, and other visual aids in support of findings.
• Advises business partners with regards to patterns and relationships in data to recommend business direction or outcomes.
• Collaborates with Analytics / DS to understand requirements and deliver trustworthy datasets.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Preferred advanced college degree in Statistics, Mathematics, and or Computer Science, or Ph.D. in related fields; Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or Business Analyst nanodegree; or related expertise.
• Strong understanding of internal business segment or stakeholders, and strong presentation skills.
• 1 – 3 years related experience in advanced analytics, big data, relational database structures, research methods, sampling techniques, and system testing.
• Experience using Snowflake, Databricks, as well as experience with visualization tools like Tableau.
• Experience working with Cloud Technologies like AWS.
• Experience working with and familiarity with code versioning tools like Github, Bitbucket etc.

May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customer’s proprietary data. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction will be considered for employment in accordance with local ordinances and state law.

This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the United States. #LI-Remote

A career with us comes with big rewards:

DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees. It is the company's policy to offer pay that is competitive with other employers in the local market. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

The Base Salary range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salary for each of DIRECTV's 4 (four) US Labor Market Zones. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

DIRECTV WAGE ZONES: $79,420 - $144,210

Low (N1): $79,420 - $119,130

Mid (N2): $83,600 - $125,400

High (N3): $91,960 - $137,940

Top (N4): $96,140 - $144,210 

Click HERE to review information on some of the largest Designated Market Areas (DMAs). Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits - when you consider all of these together, it represents a pretty impressive total compensation package.

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