Manager, Data Engineering

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising. Our ad tech division FreeWheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

Job Summary

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising. Our ad tech division FreeWheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

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.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the team, providing mentorship, coaching, and regular feedback to enable hands-on career development.   
• Scaling the team and supporting 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. 
• Advocating 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.  
• Serves 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.

​What We’re Looking For:   

• 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

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 f