NBCUniversal

Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering

NBCUniversal

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: PhiladelphiaColoradoPennsylvaniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $198,510 - $297,765 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Drive modernization of legacy data systems by defining strategies to transition from traditional architectures to modern, cloud-native, and AI-driven platforms while maintaining business continuity.
  • Accelerate real-time data delivery to meet urgent business needs by implementing streaming and low-latency data solutions that enable faster decision-making.
  • Champion agility and speed in platform development by fostering a culture of rapid iteration, automation, and continuous improvement across the SDLC.
  • Adopt a platform-as-a-product mindset, ensuring scalability, usability, and cost efficiency while balancing innovation with financial responsibility.
  • Lead engineering initiatives that integrate multi-cloud and AI infrastructure, optimizing for performance, cost, and security.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align platform capabilities with evolving business priorities, competitive pressures, and cultural transformation goals.
  • Promote cutting-edge technology adoption and open new horizons for the organization by leveraging modern tools and frameworks (e.g., Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, AI/ML stacks).
  • Instill engineering excellence through robust design standards, code quality, and reliability practices, ensuring the platform can scale with business demands.
  • Drive cultural and technological change by inspiring teams to embrace innovation, experimentation, and a forward-thinking approach to data and AI.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in Data, backend, streaming, API management, data engineering, or platform engineering, with ideally 4+ years in ML/AI.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally in data platform role.
  • Deep technical understanding of modern data architecture (lakehouse, streaming, data mesh, serverless pipelines, iceberg, open table formats)
  • Background in broadband or telecommunications would be highly preferred.
  • Strong leadership in matrixed organizations, skilled in driving alignment across engineering, AI, and business units
  • Expertise in Data and ML Ops and data infrastructure development.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and scalable ML systems.
  • Proven ability to align data and AI platform strategy with business and product objectives.
  • Passion for mentorship, coaching, and team development.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Strong ability to evaluate build vs. buy decisions for ML tooling and infrastructure.
  • Experience with cost optimization and platform observability frameworks.
Benefits
  • Best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees
  • Array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data engineeringstreamingAPI managementmachine learningdata architecturedata meshserverless pipelinesdata infrastructure developmentML Opscost optimization
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationmentorshipcoachingcommunicationalignmentinnovationexperimentationteam developmentdriving change