Thursday 7 August 2014

Senior Data Analyst - Messaging | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Senior Data Analyst - Messaging | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA


Data Science and Engineering

Senior Data Analyst - Messaging

Data Science and Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

Netflix is shaping the future of Television and we're looking for great people to join us. The Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Organization has a huge amount of data and a lot more questions than we have time to answer. We balance building tools that help everyone at the company answer their questions quickly and doing deeper analysis that may be less widely used but which can really help inform a particular product decision.

The DSE team is seeking a Data Analyst to support initiatives within the messaging space. This is a great opportunity for someone with independent research ability and  passion for data quality to work with product teams on exciting business problems to enable data driven decision making.

Responsibilities:
- Develop deep analyses and use your product sense to interpret the results and help drive key product decisions.
- Effectively communicate the results with the product teams to apply the learnings for improving user experience
- Create visualizations to make data easily accessible across the organization
- Act as a data steward, who will conduct preliminary investigation to identify data quality issues through data profiling, monitoring reports and automated data health checks.
- Identify the best practices to programmatically detect data quality issues and collaborate with Data Engineers to improve data quality framework.

Qualifications:
- Strong database experience including proficiency in SQL coding across standard commercial databases (e.g Oracle, Teradata, MySQL etc.).
- 2+ years of experience working with large data sets, working with distributed computing tools MapReduce, Hadoop, Pig, Hive or other NoSQL experience
- Extensive experience with analytical tools supporting data analysis, reporting and visualization (MicroStrategy, Tableau, R, etc.)
- Experience in Python/Java is a plus
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and actionable insights. Excellent attention to detail
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, MIS or related field

A few more things to know:
- Our culture is unique and we live by our values. It's worth learning more: www.netflix.com/Jobs
- You will need to be comfortable working in the most agile of environments. Requirements will be vague. Iterations will be rapid. You will need to be nimble and take smart risks.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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