Lead Product Data Platform Architect

AMC Networks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

AMC Global Media is seeking a Director of Product Data Architecture in New York to lead the end-to-end design, governance, and deployment of streaming product data. You will own data domains from subscription to lifecycle, drive instrumentation strategy, and coordinate with product, analytics, and vendor partners to enable BI, experimentation, and ML use cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, executive communication, and a focus on reliability, privacy, and cost efficiency in a complex

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and operating modern data platforms at scale.
• Experience with lakehouse or equivalent architectures (Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg, Delta).
• Depth in dimensional and semantic modeling of product/behavioral data.
• Fluency with event-driven instrumentation, schema governance, and collection failure modes.
• Track record as technical owner of platform/vendor recommendations.
• Embedded partner to product management/engineering shaping instrumentation.
• Hands-on: writes and reviews code and designs.
• Excellent communication and executive presence translating tradeoffs into business terms.
• Experience with subscription/billing data across multiple channels and reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for how streaming product data is produced and served.
• Define canonical metrics and semantics with governance and owners.
• Design instrumentation and event taxonomy across web, mobile, devices.
• Evaluate and recommend product data/analytics stack (CDP, analytics footprint).
• Define product data domains: subscription, content, viewership, advertising, lifecycle.
• Integrate data from Stripe, app stores, and partner-billed channels.
• Design aggregation/reconciliation for subscriber state across channels.
• Architect integration with partners, ad/billing systems, downstream feeds.
• Enable BI, experimentation, personalization, ML use cases.
• Maintain data quality, lineage, SLAs, and incident practice.
• Ensure privacy/compliance and regional data requirements by design.
• Balance compute/storage costs and efficiency; enforce engineering standards.

Skills

Experience with data platforms

Event-driven data design

Executive stakeholder communication

Mentorship of engineers

Distributed partner collaboration

Product data governance

Embedded product-management partner

Hands-on coding/reviews

Modeling subscription/billing data

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Software/Data Eng

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Iceberg

Delta

mParticle

Mixpanel

Job description

AMC Global Media is seeking a Director of Product Data Architecture in New York to lead the end-to-end design, governance, and deployment of streaming product data. You will own data domains from subscription to lifecycle, drive instrumentation strategy, and coordinate with product, analytics, and vendor partners to enable BI, experimentation, and ML use cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, executive communication, and a focus on reliability, privacy, and cost efficiency in a complex