Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform , Hyderabad

Job Summary

Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform, Hyderabad. Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a small team of 2-5 engineers delivering critical Data Audience Platform capabilities across data processing, self-service enablement, metadata, reliability, and operational excellence. This is a frontline engineering leadership role for a manager who can create clarity for a small team, drive execution discipline against a clear roadmap, and operate production systems with strong reliability and cost awareness.

The DICE (Data Insights, Collection Engineering) team at Warner Bros. Discovery powers data-driven experiences across global products like Max, Discovery+, Sports, Studios, and News. The team builds and operates a scalable, multi-tenant data ecosystem that enables analytics, real-time insights, and machine learning use cases across the organization. Positioned at the core of the data journey, the team is responsible for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of client and server-side data into reliable and high-quality datasets. Operating at the intersection of data and platform engineering, the team focuses on building robust pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and driving innovation in real-time processing, observability, and modern data infrastructure. The team collaborates closely with product, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to enable data-driven decision-making at scale.

Role Scope

• Lead a small team of 2-5 engineers responsible for foundational Data Audience Platform capabilities used across analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, operational workflows, and AI/ML enablement.
• Own execution across data collection, batch and streaming data processing, metadata, observability, cost efficiency, and self-service platform capabilities within the team's domain.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, program management, analytics, data science, operations engineering, security, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership
• Build a strong engineering team culture focused on ownership, customer impact, reliability, inclusion, and high standards.
• Coach engineers to improve technical judgment, execution quality, stakeholder communication, and operational discipline.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers on the team, and grow tech leads and emerging technical leaders.
• Regularly engage stakeholders to communicate status, risks, and key decisions for the team's space.

Delivery and Execution

• Own the team's backlog and delivery roadmap, translating departmental goals into prioritized, well-scoped work matched to available engineering capacity.

Role Requirements

• The candidate must be well versed in modern data platform concepts, distributed systems, cloud platforms, engineering operations, and enterprise-grade governance, and must retain enough hands-on depth to review designs and guide the team's technical decisions.

Qualifications / Experience

• Experience leading a small engineering team delivering data platform capabilities.

Key Skills

• Data ingestion
• Data processing
• Streaming data processing
• Metadata
• Observability
• Data governance
• Data quality
• Cloud platforms
• Distributed systems

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