Engineering Manager, Video Data Platform & Ops

NBCUniversal Intl.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Global Video Engineering team, building platforms for live, linear, and VOD video operations. You will drive the development of a centralized video intelligence and data platform, enabling real-time visibility, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities across NBCU's video ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, and data teams to deliver scalable, observable, and secure solutions while growing a diverse engineering

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership at scale.
• Experience leading or managing software engineering teams for complex systems.
• Strong understanding of modern software and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience designing or operating data platforms, data lakes, or large-scale analytical systems.
• Strong understanding of data ingestion and transformation patterns (ETL/ELT, streaming).
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization for software platforms, data services, APIs, and tooling.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for a centralized video intelligence platform.
• Lead engineers to design and develop scalable systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving high-volume telemetry data.
• Define architecture for real-time and historical data processing, streaming pipelines, and data lake technologies.
• Establish patterns for integrating multiple data sources with data quality, lineage, and governance.
• Grow the engineering team by attracting and retaining top technical talent.
• Coach engineers and foster an ownership culture of excellence.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data platforms

APIs

Cloud-native

Observability

ML/AI familiarity

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Global Video Engineering team, building platforms for live, linear, and VOD video operations. You will drive the development of a centralized video intelligence and data platform, enabling real-time visibility, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities across NBCU's video ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, and data teams to deliver scalable, observable, and secure solutions while growing a diverse engineering