Sr. Manager, Data Engineering

As part of the global Operations & Technology organization, the Data & Analytics team (D&A) is focused on data and analytics strategies for the future. We support NBCU’s vast portfolio of brands - from broadcast, cable, news, and sports networks to film studios, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties. As the Sr. Manager of Data Engineering, you'll lead exciting technical projects and manage budgets from start to finish, while transforming our internal engineering teams into efficient, scalable, and reliable forces. You're perfect for this role if you have a background in proactively removing impediments from the group, understanding the importance of clear communication, and is able to provide relevant reporting at both the team and executive level. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us! Responsibilities: Thinking like a Data Engineer to help discover, design & build Data Engineering initiatives Manage and mentor a team of data engineers and managers to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Manage budgets, vendors, resources & delivery of large, high-impact programs aimed at improving operational efficiencies for Data Engineering. Develop close working relationships with stakeholders to identify functional requirements for the data lakes, data warehouse, reports, and final data products. Ensure all technical projects are understood, documented, and progressing with complete visibility of all budgets, timelines, status, progress, dependencies, risks, opportunities, etc. Ensure all work is captured, vetted, planned, and tracked within JIRA, according to established practices Help the product teams and development teams achieve their goals aligned with program roadmaps and initiatives Lead development teams in self-organization, time, budget management and workload balance Define project roadmaps: ensure all milestones are met, risk is communicated, and data quality is never compromised. Prioritize department project work, delegate responsibilities effectively and ensure accountability Leverage prototyping methodologies to propose and design creative business solutions that exploit our broad toolset of technologies. Collaborate with the IT platform, infrastructure, and architecture teams in introducing and integrating new analytics/data tools into the organization. Participate in the department’s data governance initiatives: assist in developing, promoting, and enforcing documentation, data standards and quality in the Data & Analytics programs. Organize and socialize metadata resources, such as data lineage documents, data mappings, data dictionaries, training documents, knowledge base/wiki, etc. Coordinate final production releases with project team, platform teams, business team ensuring communications, release notes