FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the worlds best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
We are looking for an Sr. Engineering Manager for leading a tightly knit team of savvy Data Engineers. This team is solving hard problems the right way using cutting-edge data collection, transformation, analysis, and monitoring tools in the cloud for a new platform whose mission is to build the next generation of Audience & Identity data platform that handles enormous scale and uses state-of-the-art technologies to unlock the data's business value. As a team leader, you will be managing projects requiring new development, enhancements, and cross-functional integrations. This position will work together with the rest of the product and management teams. If you're a motivated manager who loves data problems and can lead and motivate a team to put their skills into action - we want to meet you to discuss this exciting opportunity!
Job Description
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead the team, providing mentorship, coaching, and regular feedback to enable hands-on career development.
- Scaling the team and supporting them in their growth. Identify and provide team members with growth opportunities that align with their career goals, ensure all engineers keep current with technological developments within the industry.
- Oversees the planning and designing of software and applications, including new programs, enhancements and modifications.
- Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Analysis to determine integration needs.
- Manage all the deliverables to ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets.
- Serves as the primary point of contact and liaison between teams. Iterate on regular process meetings that help maintain strong communication among the team.
- Monitor project progress and report findings to the leadership team.
Initiate, influence, and drive a diverse set of data-oriented problems, working with a wide range of teams and learning a great deal about ad-tech in the process.
- Provide guidance to the Software Engineering team and other departments in identifying product and technical requirements.
- Conduct work performance reviews and ensure work performance is adhering to Company standards.
- Advocating for improvements to data quality, security, cost efficiencies and performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a similar field of study.
- Ideally 5+ years of data engineering experience.
- 2+ years' experience scaling and managing 5+ person teams
- Communication and leadership experience, with experience initiating and driving projects.
- Passion for growing and developing engineers, helping them level up in their careers.
- A track record of fostering collaboration among team members through an effective process.
- Ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality or team health.
- A self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and enjoying working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Experience helping maintain a technical roadmap and balancing novel asks from engineering, product, and other stakeholders against improvements to the existing platform.
- Expertise in at least one backend language, such as Java, Scala, Python, Golang - we build our services with Scala and Python.
- Familiarity with ETL and creating pipelines for large datasets.
- Experience utilizing cloud infrastructure - We build and maintain high-quality data solutions on the state-of-the-art cloud-native data platform using AWS.
Seems like something you might be interested in? We want to meet you to discuss this exciting opportunity.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Comcast will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Salary:
National Pay Range: $115,449.70 USD-$270,585.23 USD
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
7-10 Years
What We Do
Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data. Just as important as our work is our inclusive and supportive culture, which has earned us recognition as one of the top ten places to work by Great Place to Work.
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