Manager, Data Engineering

Comcast is a leading company in the TV advertising industry, focused on connecting brands with their audiences through advanced data and technology. The Manager, Data Engineering will lead a team of data engineers in designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines to support advertising solutions, ensuring high-quality data flows that drive business growth.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Advocating for improvements to data quality, security, and performance
• Ensure on-time delivery of solutions without sacrificing sustainability, avoiding technical debt
• Iterate on regular process meetings that help maintain strong communication among the team
• Partner with stakeholders to help develop and continuously refine the short- and long-term roadmap
• Serves as the primary point of contact and liaison between teams
• Manage all the deliverables to ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets. 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
• Conduct work performance reviews, and ensure work performance is adhering to Company standards
• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• 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, C++, Python - we build our services with 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, Databricks and Snowflake
• Experience scaling and managing 3+ person teams
• Bachelor's Degree
• 5-7 Years of Relevant Work Experience