Senior Manager - Data Platform Team, Hyderabad

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are When we say, 'the stuff dreams are made of,' we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. Sr. Manager - Data Platform, Engineering- Hyderabad, India. About Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com. Roles & Responsibilities As an Engineering Manager here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you'll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. You'll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem. To be successful, you'll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, AI/ML Knowledge, and Analytics. In addition, you'll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities. Develop streaming and batch analytics & pipelines to build data impactful data products around a semantic layerCreate tools and frameworks that enhance data processing, information retrieval, governance, and data quality in a cost-effective and user-friendly manner.Promote a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation. Inspire and motivate through internal and external presentations and other speaking opportunities.Own the end-to-end architecture of the data platform, ensuring its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, security, and governance.Collaborate closely with other engineers to design and build an optimal and cost-efficient platform solution.Work in partnership with other engineers and managers to design and develop foundational elements of the platform.Assist in hiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers. Help build an engineering team that prioritizes empathy, diversity and inclusion. What To Bring Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline12+ years of commendable track record of delivering complex software engineering systems and distributed platforms using open source technologies12+ years of experience and proficiency in building and managing real-time data processing pipelines with streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Google Pub/Sub.10+ years of strong foundation in distributed data processing concepts, event-driven architectures, understanding of batch and stream processing technologies and building streaming and batch pipelines12+ years of programming experience with proficiency in Java, C, C++ or similar languages.8+ years of experience in wide variety of distributed systems and technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Databricks, Snowflake10+ years of Cloud (AWS preferred) experience10+ years of experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes), Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, DynamoDB10+ years of experience to design scalable and resilient streaming applications with microservices architectureExperience leading in a highly cross-functional environment, likely collaborating closely with Engineering, Product Management, and/or Data Science Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Nice to Have< Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are When we say, 'the stuff dreams are made of,' we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next From br