Engineering Manager - Video Software Engineering

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

The Video Software Engineering team is looking for Engineering Managers to grow and develop our engineering talent and build inclusive, high-performing teams.

Engineering Managers work closely and collaboratively with teams across Peacock technology to deliver high quality streaming service. Engineering Managers drive technical initiatives in partnership with senior engineers across multiple teams, including testing, resiliency a performance.

What the team does

• Collaborate with all Playback Services teams (Live/Linear, VOD, Video Player etc.) for Video KPIs on Peacock application
• Building Dashboards and Automation for the NBCUniversal Video Operations team
• Manage relationships between multiple internal teams 
• Own and Create a data Lake for end to end video delivery
• Collaborates with teams building Peacock applications, ensuring optimal integration of the video players

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to build highly scalable/reliable video infrastructure, including various configurations, routing policies/tools, and services to manage Video KPIs
• Develop software solutions based on operations; collaborate and confer with colleagues, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
• Deliver on product roadmaps, incrementally with a high level of quality
• Drive technical initiatives in partnership with senior engineers across teams
• Constantly search for improvements in process, improve software delivery and operational processes
• Grow the team by attracting diverse talent that can push technical boundaries and where individuals recognise that team success is more important than individual success.
• Support, coach and develop high performing engineers through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback and relationships with others
• Mentor individuals to embrace diversity and help building an inclusive and flexible workplace

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Ability to integrate into a large agile development project and manage rapid development cycles

Desired Qualifications

• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience, prior software development e