Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheel

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.

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Applications Architecture
• Advertising
• Emerging Technologies

Skills

• Applications Architecture
• Advertising
• Emerging Technologies

Benefits

Comcast offers a competitive compensation package, including base pay within the specified range, depending on experience and qualifications. Additional benefits include:

• Commission under the terms of an applicable plan for sales positions.
• Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
• Best-in-class Benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Primary Location: [Location]

Pay Range: $172,261.10 - $258,391.65

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

Education

While 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.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +