Senior Director, Software Engineering

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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, 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: AI-Native Systems Architecture & Strategy The Senior Director defines and executes the vision for AI-native, self-optimizing data and decisioning platforms powering WBD's global advertising ecosystem. This includes designing architectures grounded in first principles that seamlessly integrate real-time data processing, machine learning pipelines, and agentic AI systems. They establish scalable blueprints for Lakehouse architectures, streaming-first platforms, and unified audience graphs, enabling intelligent, privacy aware activation across converged media environments. The role drives adoption of adaptive architectures that evolve based on workload patterns, cost signals, and model feedback loops Intelligent Solution Design & Autonomous Delivery This role leads the design of end-to-end intelligent data workflows, spanning ingestion, transformation, feature engineering, model inference, and activation. The Senior Director enables engineering teams to build autonomous pipelines that leverage ML/AI for forecasting, yield optimization, anomaly detection, and real-time decisioning. They champion AI-assisted development, incorporating copilots, code generation, and automated testing frameworks to accelerate delivery velocity and quality. Modernization & Optimization of Data Platforms The Senior Director 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 AdTech 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 Director 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 - AI & Data platform Leadership: 15+ years of experience building large-scale, AI driven data platforms, including production-grade ML systems, real-time pipelines, and intelligent data products.. - Advance Distributed & Streaming Systems: Advanced knowledge of open data Lakehouse formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), distributed compute frameworks (Spark, Flink, Presto), and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub). - Cloud Native & 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. Proven track record of modernizing legacy systems into composable, cloud-native platforms - 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 & Develo

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