Sinclair Digital is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Development Manager to lead and empower our talented data engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the successful delivery of high-quality ETL pipelines, dashboards, AI agents, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, and ensuring the continuous growth and development of your team members. You will leverage your technical expertise, leadership skills, and agile management experience to guide the team towards achieving ambitious goals and contributing to the overall success of the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of data software engineers, fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-performing environment
- Guide the creation of reliable data pipelines, user segments, and manage data governance for sensitive data and appropriate access levels
- Manage the entire software development lifecycle, from project planning to deployment and maintenance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into data requirements to needed to develop valued business insights
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth, while continuing to coach and mentor the engineering team
- Manage the data engineering team to adhere to standard software development lifecycle and maintain high coding standards
- Stay current with the latest data technology innovations, tools, and best practice
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of software development experience in a management role
- Familiarity with the design and development of item tuning, balancing and customer retention
- Experience as a Software Development Manager or similar leadership role
- 5+ years of experience in GCP, Databricks and GA4 or equivalent experience, with a focus on effective ETL pipelines data access management
- Proven leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team of developers to deliver committed goals
- Experience in delivering across multiple platforms simultaneously
- Experience developing ETL pipelines, data views, dashboards and agents in Databricks
- Experience developing dimension outlines for GA4 to meet telemetry needs.
- Experience managing governance and access for sensitive financial and PI data.
- Knowledge of email platforms like Salesforce Marketing cloud and creating user segments.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
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What We Do
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country. Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to more television stations than anyone and has affiliations with all the major networks. In addition, Sinclair is the leading local news provider in the country, as well as a producer of sports content. Sinclair owns a multicast network, four radio stations and a cable network. Sinclair’s broadcast content is delivered via multiple-platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and digital platforms. Sinclair, either directly or through its venture subsidiaries, makes equity investments in strategic companies. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1986, went public in 1995 and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SBGI. Throughout our history, Sinclair Broadcast Group has been at the forefront of industry-changing events and technological advances. Our vision and first-to-market mentality drives our ‘next generation’ thinking; stimulating conversations, innovating through our expertise, and advocating for the development of technology and evolving business models. As a leading over-the-air broadcast television company, our primary business is to engage consumers on multiple platforms with relevant and compelling news, entertainment and sports content, and to provide advertisers and business efficient means and value to connect with our mass audiences. We recognize the vital role broadcast television plays in branding and local content delivery, and therefore strive to constantly be at the forefront of leading edge technology and structures to advance the industry.
