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 first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
 

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Engineering, Data Operations

Compensation

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within the posted range for this role at the time of posting dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.    Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus.  Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees.  We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most.  That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Comcast will consider for employment applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Please note that federal state, or local laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit Comcast from hiring individuals convicted of certain crimes. Additionally, an applicant’s criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the job duties of this position, which may result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.