Company Overview
Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.
Company Overview
Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.
About WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
About WBD Streaming
Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery's continued growth, building world-class products from the ground up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, WB, CNN, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.
The Role
The Senior BI Engineer will be based in Los Angeles/ San Francisco/ Seattle and report to the Manager of BI Engineering for Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A). BI&A is a global team consisting of team members in 5 countries, and a core sub-pillar of the Data Platform. BI&A is the critical foundation for product, content, subscription, revenue, marketing, and lab teams to make data-driven decisions to improve our products and services for WBD streaming, digital and enterprise business.
This team is focused on providing scalable BI platforms, customizable business-ready datasets and analytics framework supporting our domestic and international stakeholders.
We seek an engineer who not only has a deep understanding of the application of big data to complex business questions, but also experience designing and building semantic layers and bringing business-ready data to best support self-service BI analytics.
You (and your skills) will be diverse in nature to cover a wide variety of jobs running from ETL-ing, designing analytics views in databases, creating aggregate datasets and writing automation scripts.
You will work closely with cross-team partners to ensure that the modeling and data are properly moved into a semantic layer and production environments, where they can be used by DTC business to drive product, content, marketing, and programming strategies. We are looking for a well-rounded engineer who has exceptional business and communication skills.
Responsibilities

• Build aggregate datasets in Databricks and/or Snowflakes that power visualizations.
• Design data modeling and semantic layers in Looker to power self-service analytics
• Dive deep into available data using SQL, Looker, Tableau, Python, Scala, or other data analysis tools.
• Lead the application and development of analytics framework to understand our customers and vast portfolio of content via big data
• Implement calculation, and enable KPIs can be tracked in analytics and visualization
• Partner with Data Engineers, Products and Business Leaders to deploy business-ready datasets for a new streaming service
• Be part of a fast-growing and dynamic global team
• Work in an Agile development environment

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, MS or greater in a quantitative field of study (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, etc)
• Data architecture experience
• 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• Advanced skills with SQL(clean, fast code is a must)
• Advanced skills in BI tools such as Looker and Tableau
• Hands-on experience with creating the semantic layer for the BI Tools, developing the LOOKML for Looker a plus
• Advanced skills in Snowflake and/or Databricks
• Development experience in at least one scripting language (Python, Scala, etc.)
• Communication and leadership experience, with experience initiating and driving projects
• Experience scaling and managing teams
• Must be independent
• Must be curious
• Must handle multiple tasks with changing priorities
• Experience in digital media and entertainment is strongly preferred

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [email protected].