Senior Manager - Data Infrastructure

Job Description

Senior Manager - Data Infrastructure (Data & Analytics), Hyderabad

Sr. Manager Data Platform Infrastructure Engineering- Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Meet our Team:

The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system.
Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you'll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. You'll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem.

To be successful, you'll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, AI/ML Knowledge, and Analytics. In addition, you'll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.
• Own the end-to-end architecture of the data platform, ensuring its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, security, and governance.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers to design and build an optimal and cost-efficient platform solution.
• Work in partnership with other engineers and managers to design and develop foundational elements of the platform. Create tools and frameworks that enhance data processing, information retrieval, governance, and data quality in a cost-effective and user-friendly manner.
• Develop platform tools and frameworks to the same standard as seen in open-source projects. Engage closely with the engineering community and open source them upon reaching maturity.
• Implement cutting-edge AI/ML techniques, including Generative AI, to boost the efficiency of the platform and data engineering processes.
• Take on the responsibility for the platform's 24x7 support availability and oversee budgetary concerns, including cloud expenditure.
• Promote a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation. Inspire and motivate through internal and external presentations and other speaking opportunities.
• Assist in hiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers. Help build an engineering team that prioritizes empathy, diversity, and inclusion.

What to Bring:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or Similar discipline.
• 16+ years of commendable track record of delivering complex software engineering systems and platforms.
• 12+ years of programming experience using Python/C/C++ or similar languages.
• 8+ years of experience in wide variety of distributed systems and frameworks – such as
• Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Databricks, Snowflake and more.
• 5+ years of Cloud (AWS preferred) experience.
• Experience in Analytics Tools and Frameworks (such as Looker, Tableau or similar) is a huge plus.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Drive to master emerging technologies and share experiences with team members.
• Ability to understand goals, strategies, and needs of the business as they relate to infrastructure and application development.
• Expert knowledge of best security practices for cloud apps
• Expert with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• Terraform development experience.
• Proficient with C#, Python/Java.
• Experience working with containerization platforms, such as Docker, EKS.
• Databases/Storage knowledge: Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch.
• Git/GitHub experience

Nice to haves
• Experience in building AI/ML driven platform is a huge plus.

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

If you're a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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