Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheel

## Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheelApplylocations: IL - Chicago, 350 N. Orleans St 1300Ntime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R438720FreeWheel, 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**Responsible to provide leadership and executive oversight for all aspects of the Software Engineering for Audience & Measurement department's operation. Specific, strategic focus on the management of software and platforms which govern the ingestion of segment data (1st, 2nd and 3rd party), taxonomy data, Metadata and other artifacts required to support Audience management. Partners with Engineering, Product, Revenue Science, Product-Marketing, Partnership, and Privacy teams to ensure Ingestion components enable accurate, responsive, feature-rich, privacy-compliant (application-level) functionality. Provides leadership and direction across multiple functional areas and maintains fiduciary responsibility for budgets while maximizing the value of enterprise identity data assets.**Job Description****Responsibilities:*** Own the engineering strategy and roadmap for Snowflake-based data platforms, ingestion services, and downstream marketing data products.* Establish and enforce SLAs/SLOs for ingestion latency, availability, currency, and recovery; maintaining a scalable foundation for downstream business-critical audience and measurement applications.* Optimize Snowflake cost, warehouse efficiency, workload isolation, and processing performance for large-scale marketing datasets.* Oversee the design, scalability, and performance of ingestion components, incorporating assets from a variety of sources; in support of our Audience Management practice.* Drive platform modernization by adopting cloud-native patterns, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and standardized ingestion interfaces* Ensure (that) the platform can consume, normalize, sanitize (data hygiene) and process high-volume segment data from clients, consumers, and customers.* Develop an approach (for) maintaining high performance and availability of Ingestion related services; in response to the ever-increasing payloads and variable distribution cadence* Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, org design, and resource allocation aligned to strategic business goals.* Lead teams building capabilities for audience segmentation, 1P/3P data onboarding, segment replacement, add/remove workflows, and activation-readiness for marketing use cases.* Prepare and manage budget(s) and financial targets**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.* Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.* 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.**Skills**Advertising, Applications Architecture, Emerging Technologies**Compensation**Primary Location Pay Range: $172,261.10 - $258,391.65Comcast 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.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. 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 DegreeWhile 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.**Certifications** (if applicable)**Relevant Work Experience**10 Years +Comcast is 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr