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Director, Engineering
Comcast
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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At Comcast, the X1 Sports team is responsible for delivering innovative new products and features which help our customers experience their favorite sports on a whole new level! This team is central to our organizational goals of developing a game changing entertainment and digital home experience for our customers.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering teams responsible for delivering and maintaining our best in class sports experience on X1. This individual will be responsible for multi-discipline project teams based in both Philadelphia, PA & Sunnyvale, CA, as well as a small offshore team. This position's responsibilities includes building and operating products which are used by millions of X1 users daily as well as helping us define the next generation of sports experiences on X1
If you are a dynamic, motivated engineering leader with a passion for sports who wants to help us build an amazing customer experience for sports fans at tremendous scale, we want to hear from you!
Director of Engineering X1 Sports
Responsibilities
• Manage software engineers, test engineers, software developers in test, and engineering managers located in Philadelphia and Sunnyvale
◦ Hiring
◦ Goal-setting & Performance Management
◦ Mentoring/Coaching
◦ Career Development
• Ensure high availability for all products in production, including:
◦ Maintaining & optimizing a continuous delivery pipeline
◦ Ensuring operational visibility / alerting is a first class citizen in development process
◦ Defining and implementing the cloud strategy for the team
• Make appropriate use of offshore resources to augment onshore work
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to create innovative sports experiences which leverage the strengths of the X1 platform.
• Help drive strategy for the product towards KPIs which are both engineering focused as well as product focused
• Work with external parties, as needed, to integrate them into the sports ecosystem
• Foster close working relationships with peers in both Sunnyvale and Philadelphia
• Improve efficiency of engineering teams by identifying and eliminating sources of inefficiency or duplication
Qualifications
• Strong background in modern cloud deployment techniques for Java and Node.js
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and dev ops practices
• Belief in test as a first class citizen in the development process
• Proficiency in Java, Node.js, puppet, AWS (Route53, SNS/SQS, S3, EC2, Kinesis), Splunk, Tableau, AppDynamics
• 10+ years experience, 5+ years engineering management
• Experience leading large cross-country teams desired
• BS/CS or equivalent required
• Strong interest in sports HIGHLY desired
• Ability to work primarily out of Philadelphia (or relocate) required
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time required
Job Specification:
• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
• Engineering
• Generally requires 10+ years related experience
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