Senior Big Data Engineer

Company: Dish
Location: Englewood
Posted on: March 12, 2025

Job Description:

Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Department Summary

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

DISH is looking for an experienced Big Data Engineer to join our team. This engineer will be p art of the Big Data Ops team responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, analyzing, and evaluating data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on process improvement and come up with process and cost savings
• Evangelist for data engineering function leveraging Big Data framework
• Monitoring data pipeline
• Support our software engineers and data scientists
• Contribute to our cloud strategy based on prior experience
• Independently work with all stakeholders across
  Skills, Experience and Requirements
  
  Experience:
  
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Big Data applications design, development, and implementation
  • At least 3 years of Cloud experience
  • 5+ years of SQL experience, prefer Hive/Impala framework including SQL performance tuning
    
    Skills and Qualifications:
    
    • Solid understanding of Data Warehouse concepts, and knowledge on a variety of databases such as Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server, Postgres etc
    • Experience with schedulers such as Control-M
    • Experience in maintaining streaming jobs (producers/consumers) using Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis
    • Unix Shell Scripting, SQL scripting
    • Prefer experience in production support for Big data pipelines, MapReduce framework, Oozie workflows, and scoop Jobs
    • Prefer experience in AWS services such as EMR, Glue, S3, Athena, DynamoDB, IAM, Lambda, Cloudwatch
      Salary Ranges
      
      Compensation: $96,250.00/Year - $137,500.00/Year
      Benefits
      
      We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
      
      The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.
      
      The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

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