Senior Manager - Data Platform Team

2 Months ago • 10-12 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Manager in the Data Platform Team, you will lead efforts to scale existing data offerings and define the technical strategy for enhancing engineering and leadership access to the Data Platform. This involves a deep understanding of the digital streaming service and leveraging engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud expertise to optimize the technical ecosystem. Responsibilities include developing streaming and batch analytics pipelines, creating tools for data processing and governance, fostering data-driven innovation, owning the data platform architecture, collaborating with engineers, and leading team development. Strong technical skills, collaboration abilities, and experience with infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, and AI/ML are crucial.
Must have:
  • Lead data platform scaling efforts
  • Develop streaming & batch analytics pipelines
  • Build data products around a semantic layer
  • Create tools for data processing and governance
  • Own end-to-end data platform architecture
  • 12+ years software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Java, C, C++ or similar
  • Experience with AWS, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes
Good to have:
  • Apache Beam or Spark Streaming
  • Integrating ML models into Flink pipelines
Perks:
  • Great Place to work
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast track growth opportunities

Job Details

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Sr. Manager - Data Platform, Engineering- Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you’ll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. You’ll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem.

To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, AI/ML Knowledge, and Analytics. In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

  • Develop streaming and batch analytics & pipelines to build data impactful data products around a semantic layer

  • Create tools and frameworks that enhance data processing, information retrieval, governance, and data quality in a cost-effective and user-friendly manner.

  • Promote a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation. Inspire and motivate through internal and external presentations and other speaking opportunities.

  • Own the end-to-end architecture of the data platform, ensuring its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, security, and governance.

  • Collaborate closely with other engineers to design and build an optimal and cost-efficient platform solution.

  • Work in partnership with other engineers and managers to design and develop foundational elements of the platform.

  • Assist in hiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers. Help build an engineering team that prioritizes empathy, diversity and inclusion.

What to Bring:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline

  • 12+ years of commendable track record of delivering complex software engineering systems and distributed platforms using open source technologies

  • 12+ years of experience and proficiency in building and managing real-time data processing pipelines with streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Google Pub/Sub.

  • 10+ years of strong foundation in distributed data processing concepts, event-driven architectures, understanding of batch and stream processing technologies and building streaming and batch pipelines

  • 12+ years of programming experience with proficiency in Java, C, C++ or similar languages.

  • 8+ years of experience in wide variety of distributed systems and technologies – such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Databricks, Snowflake

  • 10+ years of Cloud (AWS preferred) experience

  • 10+ years of experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes), Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, DynamoDB

  • 10+ years of experience to design scalable and resilient streaming applications with microservices architecture

  • Experience leading in a highly cross-functional environment, likely collaborating closely with

Engineering, Product Management, and/or Data Science

  • Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to tools like Apache Beam or Spark Streaming.

  • Familiarity with integrating ML models into Flink pipelines is a plus.

What We Offer:

  • A Great Place to work.

  • Equal opportunity employer

  • Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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