
Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering
NBCUniversal
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Philadelphia • Colorado • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $198,510 - $297,765 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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