Engineering Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technological leadership in understanding business problems and work with the lead engineers to come up with technical solutions with due consideration to performance, cost, scalability and reliability providing a clear roadmap to implementation
• Inculcate innovation-mindset in the team by guiding them on the latest technological trends and how they impact the Comcast landscape
• Adopt to changing business and technology needs and ensure that the solutions created leverage the best options available in the market
• Manage a team of data engineers providing and tracking their quarterly and annual goals which are aligned to the organizational goals
• Execute projects in Agile - participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning and capacity management
• Work with Lead / Sr Engineers to estimate the stories in the backlog during sprint planning
• Assign stories to the team and track the progress in daily standups
• Capture retrospective actions and ensure that the learnings are carried over to the subsequent sprints
• Ensure user tickets are resolved on time with a clear downward trend, repeated incidents are reduced, process optimizations and efficiency opportunities are picked up in every sprint
• Ensure team has clarity on responsibilities and are accountable to them
• Responsible for identifying, coaching, developing, motivating, with technical guidance on software deliverables
• Set continuous improvement targets for the team to achieve operational efficiency and plug technical debts
• Cascade the data and platform strategy supporting the team in upskilling and prepared for the new technology roadmap
• Establish, review and upgrade the development and operational standards & guidelines to ensure quality of the data assets being deployed
• Resolve conflicting needs across stakeholders coming up with the a win-win solution
• Effectively collaborate with the dx partners, business users and DevOps teams to manage roadblocks and to support business, product or technical goals
• Set quality, productivity and innovation goals for team thereby developing a driven and motivated team
• Ensure timely communication to the stakeholders and leadership on any outstanding issues / data issues and timeline changes
• Conduct regular 1:1 with team to understand aspirations, challenges and support needed providing opportunities to showcase capabilities and develop new skills.

Skills and Experience

• 12+ years of IT experience
• 6+ years of experience leading data engineering teams creating solutions in Big Data platforms and AWS
• 3+ years of experience in building containerized data engineering solutions using Docker and Kubernetes
• Expert-level knowledge in Agile software development and CI-CD practices
• Good communication and presentation skills catering to a wide range of target audience starting from IT developers to senior leadership teams
• Strong team player who can shape the future state technical platform and applications
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