Senior Manager, Data Engineering (Agentic AI focus)

About Sony Pictures Entertainment :

Sony Pictures Entertainment is seeking an innovative data engineer to join the Insights Strategy and Analytics data analytics organization. The ISA team focuses on enhancing analytical capabilities and infrastructure for internal stakeholders across television production distribution and marketing. As the worlds largest independent studio Sony Pictures Television produces original content for streaming and linear networks globally including popular series across various genres. Our series from dramas like THE NIGHT AGENT THE LAST OF US and THE BOYS to comedies like TWISTED METAL and COBRA KAI to unscripted series like JEOPARDY! WHEEL OF FORTUNE and AMERICAN IDOL are beloved by our fans and customers worldwide.

Role Summary :

The Senior Manager will lead our efforts to deploy modern tools and processes including genAI and agentic AI to accelerate and scale our data management processes. This role will evaluate technologies prototype implementation and rapidly deploy agentic AI and similar innovations to improve data quality data reliability and team velocity. It is a critical part of the Insights Strategy and Analytics teams strategic vision and overall capabilities. The senior manager will also lead business-facing projects working closely with non-technical stakeholders data visualization engineers and data scientists to enable ISA to deliver more sophisticated and impactful analytical tools.

Key Responsibilities :

AI Innovation : Drive technical innovation within the data engineering and data stewardship teams to leverage agentic AI and other emerging technologies to boost the speed quality and accuracy of our work across the data lifecycle :

• New sources : data profiling pipeline development cataloging documentation
• Data cleaning : scrubbing malformed values normalization
• Data enrichment : matching harmonization accuracy confidence scoring generating synthetic & genAI data
• Data operations & data stewardship : pipeline monitors and alerts anomaly detection proactive defect detection
• Data stewardship : nimble adaptation as upstream sources evolve

Data Engineering : Translate complex business requirements into the design of robust ELT pipelines data models and operational processes. Establish tools and processes to ensure data quality and accuracy.

Project Delivery : Contribute to fast-paced project teams working to build new ISA analytical tools. Source and model data from disparate systems to create data assets used by data scientists and data visualization leads with ample collaboration across disciplines.

Accelerate The Team : As an experienced IC championing transformative tools accelerate the overall team velocity and scale our outputs across both data engineering and data stewardship. Coach and train other team members partner with IT and governance teams to enable new capabilities and advocate for modernization throughout the ISA product development lifecycle.

Qualifications :

Education : Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Business Analytics or related fields; advanced degrees are a plus.

Experience : 10 years in data engineering or related technical leadership roles preferably in media and entertainment or related industries.

AI Expertise :

Technical Acumen :

Business Focus & Communication Skills :

Preferred Qualifications :

The anticipated base salary for this position is $167K to $200K. This role may also qualify for annual incentive and / or comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors including without limitation the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position years of relevant experience level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and if applicable the location of the position.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability veteran status age sexual orientation gender identity or other protected characteristics.

SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.

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Required Experience :

Senior Manager

Key Skills

Data Center Experience,ArcGIS,Cloud Infrastructure,Construction Estimating,Go,Mathcad,React,Redux,AWS,Software Development,Auto Estimating,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 167 - 200