Sr Data Instrumentation Scientist

Key Skills

Cloud computing, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

About The Job

Supporting the Disney Advertising Sales, the Audience Modeling and Data Science team are subject matter experts in each of the following areas:

• Creating and optimizing audience classification models that enable us to predict and target strategic audience attributes, including brand affinity, purchase behavior, and psychographics
• Integrating a broad suite of complex datasets, from digital event logs to sporting event metadata, into carefully curated and reusable data models
• Publishing audience attributes across an array of ad-serving endpoints
• Working cross-functionally to ensure our data product is aligned with the goals of each strategic sales vertical and the business as a whole

We’re looking for an intellectually curious, business-savvy, analytical powerhouse to join The Walt Disney Company’s DMED segment as a data scientist on the ad sales team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving improvements across DMED’s portfolio of offerings by using data. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, you will develop, drive, and oversee new strategies to ensure the growth of the business and the overall bottom line.

What You'll Do

• Maintain and expand machine learning processes, enabling training, and scoring at scale.
• Develop and own data processing pipelines, stitching together streaming, advertising, and other feeds at the terabyte scale.
• Transform complex data relationships into a consumable and intuitive data model.
• Implement cutting-edge authoring, orchestration, and monitoring tools.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in data science or data engineering, including a fluency in ML processes and how they relate to underlying datasets.
• Strong experience in Google Cloud, including excellent proficiency in BigQuery or similar SQL-based big data warehouse.
• Solid experience in Python, with a demonstrated ability to read, write, audit, and document code.
• Ability to write detailed technical requirements.
• Innovative thinker capable of operating both in a strategic capacity (big-picture perspective, asks why) and a hands-on/execution capacity (detail-oriented, conscientious)

Nice To Haves

• Apache Beam and Apache Spark experience
• Experience in data process orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Snowpipe).
• Proficiency in maintaining team projects in Git and GitHub
• Experience developing internal APIs.

Basic Education

• BA/BS in Computer Science, MIS, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or related analytical field

Additional Information

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $136,038 to $182,490 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.