Director, Software Engineering, Developer Tools

Company Description

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

The Director, Software Engineering, Developer Tools is responsible for leading cross-organization delivery and development of developer tools and cloud platforms that enable our development teams to quickly and consistently deliver applications that are reliable, secure, private, and performant. This role requires a combination of strategic initiative, people leadership, and delivery execution.

The capabilities we are building provide easy, templated solutions that create paved roads to go from account creation to code repositories to production that include, but are not limited to:

• CI/CD Pipelines
• API Management and Edge-based API Gateways
• Automation and creation of blueprints to align with secure cloud building blocks into solutions for various cloud providers
• Internal developer portal
• Cloud platform onboarding and automation, including FinOps and financial tools
• Additional developer productivity tools

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching for a dynamic development team
• Provide engineering teams with tools to enable consistency and have a focus on automation to aiding teams go from code repo to production by providing self-serviceable tools and services to aide with performance and availability
• Drive the development of our internal developer portal
• Consult, educate, and empower engineers as they build & ship innovative software.
• Research, prototype, and develop solutions in support of the adoption of modern technologies and architecture.
• Develop systems and processes to maximize the efficiency of our continuous integration pipeline and testing infrastructure.
• Engage with engineers throughout the company to learn about pain points, and work alongside a technical lead to define and prioritize solutions.
• Establish and maintain partnerships within the organization and internal customers to determine roadmap features
• Drive the evaluation of new and emerging technologies, services, tools, and multiple cloud vendors to innovative new capabilities, guide business and technology decisions

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience, 4+ as a leader
• Understanding of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Version Control, Testing Frameworks and Cloud Platforms with an eye on FinOps.
• Proficient with distributed web-scaled design and implementations
• Understanding of public cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP) and fundamental components like Compute/Virtual Machines, Serverless, Storage, Databases, Identity and User Management, etc.
• Ability to write technical documentation (platform architecture, strategy, engineering etc.)
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment.
• Ability to see the big picture, while still delivering on the details.
• Humble and human centric approach to leadership.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience driving the adoption of release automation through self-service pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete project deliverables
• A good communic