Manager, Data Engineering

Role Description

Comcast Advertising Media Solutions and Data team is hiring a Manager, Data Engineering who will lead a team of data engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support our Audience and Measurement, Attribution & Reporting teams. This role is pivotal in enabling data-driven advertising solutions that power Comcast's ecosystem. Reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, reliable data flows that fuel business growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the team, providing mentorship, coaching, and regular feedback to enable hands-on career development.
• Scale the team and support 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.
• Advocate 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.
• Serve 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.

Qualifications

• Ideally 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Compensation

• National Pay Range: $97,815.94 USD - $229,256.11 USD
• Illinois Pay Range: $103,929.44 USD - $201,745.38 USD
• Colorado Pay Range: $110,042.93 USD - $210,915.62 USD
• Hawaii Pay Range: $128,383.42 USD - $192,575.13 USD
• Washington DC Pay Range: $140,610.41 USD - $210,915.62 USD
• Maryland Pay Range: $116,156.43 USD - $210,915.62 USD
• Minnesota Pay Range: $110,042.93 USD - $192,575.13 USD
• New York Pay Range: $116,156.43 USD - $229,256.11 USD
• Washington Pay Range: $110,042.93 USD - $220,085.87 USD
• New Jersey Pay Range: $122,269.93 USD - $220,085.87 USD
• Vermont Pay Range: $116,156.43 USD - $183,404.89 USD
• Massachusetts Pay Range: $122,269.93 USD - $220,085.87 USD
• California Pay Range: $110,042.93 USD - $203,783.21 USD

Education

• Bachelor's Degree preferred, or a combination of coursework and experience, or extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

• 5-7 Years