Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheel

## Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - Free Wheel Apply locations :
IL - Chicago, 350 N. Orleans St 1300

Ntime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R438720

Free Wheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
** Job Summary
** Responsible to provide leadership and executive oversight for all aspects of the Software Engineering for Audience & Measurement department's operation. Specific, strategic focus on the management of software and platforms which govern the ingestion of segment data (1st, 2nd and 3rd party), taxonomy data, Metadata and other artifacts required to support Audience management. Partners with Engineering, Product, Revenue Science, Product-Marketing, Partnership, and Privacy teams to ensure Ingestion components enable accurate, responsive, feature-rich, privacy-compliant (application-level) functionality.

Provides leadership and direction across multiple functional areas and maintains fiduciary responsibility for budgets while maximizing the value of enterprise identity data assets.
** Job Description
**** Responsibilities:
*** Own the engineering strategy and roadmap for Snowflake-based data platforms, ingestion services, and downstream marketing data products.
* Establish and enforce SLAs/SLOs for ingestion latency, availability, currency, and recovery; maintaining a scalable foundation for downstream business-critical audience and measurement applications.
* Optimize Snowflake cost, warehouse efficiency, workload isolation, and processing performance for large-scale marketing datasets.
* Oversee the design, scalability, and performance of ingestion components, incorporating assets from a variety of sources; in support of our Audience Management practice.
* Drive platform modernization by adopting cloud-native patterns, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and standardized ingestion interfaces
* Ensure (that) the platform can consume, normalize, sanitize (data hygiene) and process high-volume segment data from clients, consumers, and customers.
* Develop an approach (for) maintaining high performance and availability of Ingestion related services; in response to the ever-increasing payloads and variable distribution cadence
* Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization, including hiring, coaching, org design, and resource allocation aligned to strategic business goals.
* Lead teams building capabilities for audience segmentation, 1P/3P data onboarding, segment replacement, add/remove workflows, and activation-readiness for marketing use cases.
* Prepare and manage budget(s) and financial targets
** 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…