By architecting the platform rationalization, cloud migration, and next-generation AI/ML-enabled capabilities, the Principal ensures WBD's ad-tech stack is positioned to maximize monetization, enable automation, and deliver premium advertising experiences across all platforms....Your Role Accountabilities:
Driven & Agentic Systems Automation:
Lead the design and implementation of enterprise‑scale automation leveraging AI and agentic architectures, including autonomous and human‑in‑the‑loop agents that orchestrate deployments, infrastructure lifecycle management, incident response, and operational workflows across large‑scale AdTech systems, with strong focus on reliability, governance, observability, and measurable efficiency gains....Evaluate and introduce technologies related to streaming, storage, orchestration, observability, and resiliency
Qualifications & Experience
• Systems Architecture Leadership: 15+ years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms, with a proven track record in large-scale ingestion, transformation, and activation pipelines.
• Automation Expertise: Experience automating high‑availability, high‑throughput production environments, leveraging AI and agentic architectures.
• Distributed Data Expertise: Advanced knowledge of open data Lakehouse formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), distributed compute frameworks (Spark, Flink, Presto), and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• Cloud & Modern Architecture: Hands-on expertise in cloud-native data design (AWS, GCP, Azure), microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures; demonstrated success in modernizing legacy platforms into modular, cost-efficient systems.
• Identity & Audience Platforms: Fam