The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

Ad Systems Business Analyst

New York, NY, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 3257 days ago
JavaScriptCSSRESTProject ManagementAgileResearchCommunication

About the role

  • Company Description The Weather Company, an IBM Business, is the world's largest private weather enterprise, helping people make informed decisions - and take action - in the face of weather.
  • The world's biggest brands in aviation, energy, insurance, media, and government rely on The Weather Company for data, technology platforms and services to help improve decision-making and respond to weather's impact on business.
  • For more, visit www.theweathercompany.com.

Responsibilities

  • Design new technology solutions to support the advertising initiatives of The Weather Company.
  • Participate in a cross-functional team including Ad Operations, Ad Products, Product Engineering and QA to implement and operationalize new advertising products.
  • Document and maintain technical requirements, configurations, work-flows and QA test cases for the advertising solutions to be built and implemented.
  • Perform Validation testing for the advertising solutions built into the TWC consumer platforms. Work with the QA group to ensure advertising solutions are properly implemented and functional across all platforms.
  • Troubleshoot and drive to resolution production issues with advertising solutions inside The Weather Company digital platforms.
  • Research the latest technology offerings of The Weather Channel vendor partners. Keep abreast of advertising technology and policy through the IAB and other industry bodies.
  • Working knowledge of database design and information architecture.
  • Working knowledge of systems analysis and design / software development life cycle.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML.
  • Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures as they relate to information systems administration and management.
  • Working familiarity with project management and system/software development methodologies (Agile, KanBan, Scrum, etc.)
  • Working familiarity with Internet/Web technology, including popular and emerging consumer technologies.
  • Working knowledge of HTTP Proxy software (Charles, Fiddler) to identify and troubleshoot RESTful APIs.
  • Working knowledge of client/server architectures.
  • Working knowledge of web analytics fundamentals (log file processing, cookies, user registration, etc.).
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
  • 2+ years scripting/programming experience.

Company info

  • WeatherFX is the "Weather Intelligent Marketing Platform", developed in 2011 to enable marketers to leverage TWC's robust proprietary weather data set to better inform marketing initiatives.

This listing is sourced directly from The Weather Channel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.