Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheel

What you'll do

• Own engineering strategy and roadmap for Snowflake-based data platforms, ingestion services, and downstream marketing data products
• Establish and enforce SLAs/SLOs for ingestion latency, availability, currency, and recovery
• Maintain scalable foundation for downstream business-critical audience and measurement applications
• Optimize Snowflake cost, warehouse efficiency, workload isolation, and processing performance
• Oversee design, scalability, and performance of ingestion components supporting Audience Management
• Drive platform modernization adopting cloud-native patterns, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and standardized ingestion interfaces
• Ensure platform can consume, normalize, sanitize, and process high-volume segment data
• Develop approach to maintain high performance and availability of ingestion services
• Build and develop high-performing engineering organization including hiring, coaching, org design, and resource allocation
• Lead teams building capabilities for audience segmentation, 1P/3P data onboarding, segment replacement, add/remove workflows, and activation-readiness
• Prepare and manage budgets and financial targets

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience
• 10+ years relevant work experience
• Experience with software engineering leadership and executive oversight
• Experience managing software and platforms for data ingestion (1st, 2nd, 3rd party segment data, taxonomy data, metadata)
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Revenue Science, Product-Marketing, Partnership, and Privacy
• Experience establishing and enforcing SLAs/SLOs for ingestion latency, availability, currency, and recovery
• Experience optimizing Snowflake cost, warehouse efficiency, workload isolation, and processing performance
• Experience driving platform modernization with automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code
• Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams including hiring, coaching, and resource allocation
• Budget and financial target management

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