Software Development Manager

Job Description

We are seeking a hardworking Software Development Manager with an obsession for data, to join our fast-paced Sinclair Digital organization. At Sinclair Digital, data is essential for all our business decision-making needs. Our data and actionable insights teams is responsible to keep track of a billion hits on our apps, websites, OTT products. The team is also responsible for creating and curating a first party data, delivering newsletters and better user experience for all our loyal returning users, managing privacy and security on the process. The ideal candidate will need to be customer focused with empathy, demonstrate servant leadership, have a passion to effectively problem solve and showcase strong software development skills.

This position is in Seattle, WA or US Remote Eligible.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Lead a technology team that designs, develops and maintains data pipelines into a cloud-native data warehouse (GCP), a first party data lake infrastructure (Big data/BigQuery) and a large scale integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)
• Manage stakeholder relationships and help execute on quarterly planning increments and commitments on behalf of the data team
• Increase team efficiency by removing roadblocks and providing a healthy culture for development
• Support team members by providing mentorship and career guidance

WHAT TO BRING:
• Experience managing a high performing development team
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Expert leadership capabilities including leading vendors, staff, and external teams to drive solutions
• 6+ years software experience (~3 years development and ~2 years management)
• Ability to understand, explain and debug both development and architecture solutions
• Development experience in Python 3 or JavaScript/Node
• Familiar with a modern cloud data platform and deploying services to them (Google/AWS/Azure)
• Experience with pulling data from a variety of sources is; typical sources include 3rd party APIs, CloudSearch, SQL-based data warehouses and spreadsheets
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Experience with data requirements gathering
• Experience evaluating data collection for accuracy (Big Query, Kubernetes, App Engine, Lambda/Cloud Functions)

NICE-TO-HAVES:
• Experience using data visualization tools (e.g. Data Studio, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Experience using Google Ad Manager, MDM, ERP Apps like Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Oracle
• Experience with tracking user consumption of video

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyxqpm-3-133-144-217-42 in your application.