Sr Mgr, Data Platforms

Job Summary:
As the Sr Manager of Buyflow Services Platform & Operations, you will lead a team of Platform Engineers responsible for maintaining the reliability and availability of both our cloud-based and on-premise applications and services. You will be responsible for delivering resilient platforms to support critical revenue generating systems. Additionally, you will develop and implement best practices (with a strong emphasis on security and cloud-based technologies) and play a key role in driving operational excellence across the organization. This role is 70% leadership and 30% hands on.
Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Strategy:
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of technical platform engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Develop and implement strategies to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to align team practices with business goals.
• Operational Excellence:
• Establish and monitor metrics to ensure systems meet reliability and performance target.
• Lead automation initiatives to reduce manual efforts and enhance system resilience and scalability.
• Collaboration & Communication:
• Serve as a key stakeholder in technical discussions, advocating for dev/ops principles and best practices.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring organizational alignment.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Demonstrated understanding of reactive platforms like Akka, Node.JS, Play, etc.
• Demonstrated understanding GraphQL based APIs
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of public cloud infrastructure services capabilities such as AWS
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of modern microservices architectures employed at web scale
• Ability to operate customer facing production services at web scale, 24/7/365
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of DevOps principles and practices
• Ability to analyze and resolve issues, both logical and interpersonal
• Demonstrated effective communications skills including presentation skills Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively

Required Education

• BA or BS College Degree or related work experience

Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years

• Telecommunications, Product and/or equivalent experience - 7+
• Software engineering team management - 3+
• Distributed computing software development - 3+
• Experience developing distributed software operating in JVM and on Linux
• Experience leading people and projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Knowledge of telecommunication/cable services or industry experience

Preferred Education

• Master's Degree or MBA

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Office environment
• Some travel required
• This position is eligible for our Hybrid Work Policy. Eligible employees can work from home up to one day each week.

MPD646 2024-41788 2024
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