The Senior Director, Analytics Technology will partner with the Filmed Entertainment Technology - Marketing, Finance and Strategic Planning groups to shape their data and analytics technology strategy, architecture, and related data solutions. Lead the design and implementation of solutions that enable us to answer critical business questions in a data-driven manner. Working in a “hands-on” collaborative environment, you will facilitate solving business problems through data engineering and development of innovative interactive visualizations and analytics products.
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• Partner with and collaboratively engage business clients in scoping and designing analytics solutions aligned with key business initiatives.
• Support the project and product management efforts for executing analytics projects.
• Work with data engineers and analysts to identify data sources for discovery and profiling, and, where necessary, define appropriate logical models that accurately reflect existing business processes.
• Design solutions combining data blending, profiling, mining, statistical analysis, machine learning, and visualizations to better define and curate models, test hypothesis, and deliver key insights.
• Partner with NBCU’s technology domains, related partners, and vendors to build and scale an overall analytical framework supporting data integration, analysis, modeling, visualization, and operational insights.
• Direct engagement with NBCU’s Data and Information Management teams to ensure data quality, related metadata management, and governance of analytical data sources within operational and conformed data repositories.
• Provide perspective on capabilities to deliver solutions including project-related costs, readiness, application design and architecture, and people and process related impacts.
• Help business analysts leverage the appropriate tools, solutions, and/or processes as part of their data mining, profiling, blending, and analytical activities.
• Collaborate with NBCU’s technology domains to lead and ensure development and delivery of analytics solutions.
• Build and lead a team of analytics technology professionals.
• Ensure policies and standards are followed across the organization.
• Deliver services that meet internal KPIs & customer SLAs.
Qualifications/Requirements Qualifications/Requirements
• Undergraduate degree in the field of computer science or engineering, or focus on statistical analysis or equivalent experience required
• At least ten (10) years of progressive experience in Business Intelligence and/or Analytics leadership
• At least three (3) years of experience in a business-facing analytical role and proven track record of related success
• Understanding of summary statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, mathematically focused programming languages such as R and Python, and advanced analytics solutions such as SAS, SPSS, and RapidMiner.
• Experience in data mining (structured and unstructured) in an enterprise environment using large, complex, and distributed data sets.
• Ability to quickly understand which data is used by which business processes and what the data means in the context of these specific processes, especially customer intelligence, brand and content engagement, and ad inventory and effectiveness.
• Strong working knowledge of media including broadcast TV, digital, and mobile
• Strong project management and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional business and technical teams.
• Demonstrated business acumen and the ability to apply technology solutions to solve business problems
• Experience with a large-scale distributed Hadoop environment preferred
• Experience mining large datasets (eg. Web logs)
• Experience in delivering self-service analytics solutions that promote data discovery
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies desired.
Eligibility Requirements:
• Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through NBC UNIVERSAL CAREERS to be considered
• Must be willing to work in Universal City, CA
• Must be willing to take a drug test and submit to a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
Desired Characteristics • Strong interpersonal oral and written communication skills
• The ability to quickly build rapport and gain the respect and cooperation of both technology and business leaders
• Be able to deal with ambiguity and make quality decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Action-oriented and driven to achieve results in a positive manner, displaying ethical behavior, integrity, and building trust at all times
• Customer-focused
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional matrix environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees
• Able to work independently, plan workloads and deliver on commitments
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Proven project management, time management, and conflict resolution/management skills
• Ability to set priorities and objectives, then plan and organize the team in order to meet them
• Able to quickly learn new technologies as they become prevalent and widely implemented, and develop oneself
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