Sr Director, Converged Adtech And Linear Systems

Welcome to Warner Bros Discovery the stuff dreams are made of Who We Are When we say the stuff dreams are made of we re not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth Behind WBD s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers bringing our characters to life the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what s next From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive Your New Role The Senior Director AdTech Engineering reports to the Vice President Engineering - Converged AdTech Linear Systems and leads the modernization engineering delivery and technical strategy for WBD s global advertising technology platforms This role is accountable for the architecture scalability and operational excellence of systems spanning converged planning linear and digital advertising scheduling and affiliate distribution By driving platform rationalization cloud migration and next-generation AI ML-enabled capabilities the Sr Director ensures WBD s ad-tech stack is positioned to maximize monetization enable automation and deliver premium advertising experiences across all platforms Acting as both strategic leader and hands-on technologist the Sr Director aligns engineering execution with business goals manages a globally distributed engineering team and partners with product and sales leadership to unify advertising systems into a single modernized ecosystem Your Role Accountabilities Data Systems Architecture Strategy The Senior Principal defines the vision and architecture for WBD s enterprise-scale data platforms They design blueprints for data lakes real-time processing and audience graphs that ensure scalability interoperability and compliance across converged advertising and media ecosystems Solution Design Technical Delivery This role leads the end-to-end design of critical data workflows covering ingestion transformation activation and advanced analytics The Senior Principal partners with engineering teams to deliver high-performance cloud-native solutions that directly enable forecasting yield optimization and monetization Modernization Optimization of Data Platforms The Senior Principal drives the evolution of legacy data systems into modular cost-optimized platforms They lead rationalization to eliminate redundancy embed observability and lineage and establish automation practices that improve performance reliability and efficiency Strategic Partnership Thought Leadership This leader acts as a technical advisor to product sales operations and engineering stakeholders ensuring data platforms serve both near-term business needs and long-term strategy They influence industry direction by engaging with technology partners open-source communities and standards bodies Governance Security Data Trust The Senior Principal sets data governance standards and KPIs ensuring quality resiliency and security are consistently achieved They enforce compliance with global privacy regulations GDPR CCPA VPPA safeguarding trust in WBD s data foundation Qualifications Experience Data Systems Leadership 15 years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms with a proven track record in large-scale ingestion transformation and activation pipelines Distributed Data Expertise Advanced knowledge of open data Lakehouse formats Iceberg Delta Hudi distributed compute frameworks Spark Flink Presto and streaming technologies Kafka Kinesis Pub Sub Cloud Modern Architecture Hands-on expertise in cloud-native data design AWS GCP Azure microservices APIs and serverless architectures demonstrated success in modernizing legacy platforms into modular cost-efficient systems Identity Audience Platforms Familiarity with identity resolution audience graphs and cross-platform measurement systems in media advertising or adjacent high-scale transaction domains Engineering Excellence Deep knowledge of data engineering best practices CI CD automation observability data lineage and governance frameworks that ensure reliability and compliance Performance Optimization Skilled in cost modeling benchmarking and optimizing large-scale distributed systems for throughput latency and cost efficiency Strategic Communication Adept at framing complex technical strategies to C-level stakeholders and influencing product sales and operations through data-driven insights Industry Awareness Strong grasp of emerging trends in ad-tech programmatic ecosystems ML AI-driven data products and privacy-first architectures GDPR CCPA VPPA Partnerships Ecosystem Experienced in leading technical evaluations vendor integrations and collaborations with third-party data providers cloud platforms and open-source communities Education Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical discipline required PhD or advanced cloud data certifications preferred How We Get Things Done This last bit is probably the most important Here at WBD our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview Championing Inclusion at WBD Warner Bros Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit regardless of sex gender identity ethnicity age sexual orientation religion or belief marital status pregnancy parenthood disability or any other 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