Principal Data Engineer
$90 - $98 per hourOptomi, LLC
Job Title: Principal Data Engineer / Engineering Manager
Contract Type: Contract to Hire - initial 12 month contract, then convert to full-time
Job Location: Sanford, Connecticut (preferred) or New York City
Days a Week Onsite/Hybrid/Remote: 4 days onsite / hybrid
Job Pay Rate: $90-$98/hr
Job Salary: $175,000 - $185,000 upon conversion
Interview Process: 3 rounds process
A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.
Optomi, in partnership with a leading media technology company, is looking for an Principal Data Engineer / Engineering Manager to spearhead a critical project. You will lead an initiative to consolidate disparate telemetry systems into a unified platform, enhancing automation, root-cause analysis, and self-healing capabilities with AI. This role involves interfacing with various teams, including SSAI, player, and CDM teams, to streamline video operations and KPI analysis. The successful candidate will be a highly technical leader — part architect, part developer, and part engineering manager — who can work across multiple teams and systems to drive innovation in video engineering.
**This is not a traditional people-management-focused Engineering Manager role; the person needs to be highly technical and hands-on, with a strong architecture mindset. Staff/Principal/Distinguished Engineers or Architects who are interested in a player-coach leadership role could be strong fits.
What the right candidate will enjoy:
- Leading a high-impact project at the intersection of media, data, architecture, AI, and technology
- Architecting a solution that brings together telemetry and data from multiple platforms and systems
- Collaborating with multiple teams to solve complex technical challenges
- Building a new team and helping shape its technical direction
- Working on automation, AI, and self-healing capabilities
- Being part of a dynamic and innovative team environment
What type of experience does the right candidate have:
- Proven experience with observability, monitoring, and telemetry tools
- Strong architecture and technical leadership background
- Experience integrating or consolidating disparate platforms, systems, or data sources
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data harmonization, and distributed systems
- Hands-on engineering experience and willingness to remain technically involved
- Experience with automation, AI, or self-healing operational capabilities
- Experience in media or streaming industries is a plus, but NOT required
- Staff, Principal, Distinguished Engineer, Architect, or highly technical Engineering Manager backgrounds could be strong fits
What the xhyhwjd responsibilities are of the right candidate:
- Lead the consolidation of telemetry systems across teams
- Architect and help build a unified platform for video operations, monitoring, and KPI analysis
- Determine the appropriate data points and telemetry to pull from underlying component systems
- Structure and harmonize data from multiple sources to support automation and AI
- Implement AI-driven automation and self-healing capabilities for enhanced operational efficiency
- Work closely with SSAI, player, CDM, and other engineering teams to integrate their systems and telemetry
- Drive deeper root-cause analysis beyond surface-level alerts
- Lead and develop a newly formed team, potentially including offshore support
- Participate in hiring and help define the technical capabilities of the new team
- Communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders to achieve project goals
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