Principal Data Engineer
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Principal Data Engineer
The Enterprise Corporate Data Team is looking for a Principal Data Engineer, a senior technical leader responsible for architecting the core data infrastructure and platforms that power enterprise-scale AI applications. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this role will focus on building systems to generate content tagging, semantic ontology, persona modeling, integrating content metadata with behavioral data to support personalization, audience development, and intelligent content discovery.
The Principal Data Engineer will lead the end-to-end design and implementation of scalable pipelines, platforms and systems that support semantic analysis and Knowledge Graph generation across massive volumes of unstructured data using GeN AI systems. This individual will also co-ordinate with an offshore team of engineers, ensuring consistent delivery, code quality, and alignment with business and technical goals. The ideal candidate will possess an entrepreneurial ethos, an ability to operate in a dynamic environment, and a working knowledge of the current digital media landscape. This role is based in New York City.