Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

The Applied Intelligence Data Engineering team is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead the design, delivery, and operational excellence of large-scale batch and real-time data platforms. This role will oversee high-performance data engineering teams that power analytics, APIs, AI workflows, and mission-critical data services across the organization. You will guide the design and execution of distributed data systems, including ETL and ELT pipelines, streaming platforms, warehouse ecosystems, and cloud-native infrastructure. As a manager, you will shape technical direction, develop engineering talent, and ensure production-grade reliability, scalability, and operational rigor across data platforms.

Responsibilities

Manage and develop a team of data engineers responsible for batch and streaming data systems.
Drive technical execution across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers.
Establish engineering standards, code quality practices, and architectural review processes.
Mentor engineers in distributed systems design, performance optimization, and production reliability.
Ensure scalable data modeling standards and efficient query performance across analytical workloads.
Guide decisions about architecture, including orchestration and schema evolution, partitioning strategies, and storage optimization.
Partner with streaming engineers to align batch and real-time data patterns into cohesive platform designs.
Partner closely with Data Product Management to align roadmap priorities, SLAs, and platform KPIs.
Collaborate with software engineers to integrate streaming systems, APIs, and microservices into the broader data ecosystem.
Clearly communicate architectural tradeoffs to stakeholders, sharing delivery risks and operational constraints.
Lead architectural reviews and drive long-term platform strategy.
Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Strong expertise in data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
Deep understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, orchestration platforms, and distributed data processing systems.
Solid understanding of Kafka-based architectures and event-driven data patterns.
Proven experience hiring, onboarding, and retaining high-performing engineers across varying seniority levels.
Commitment to building an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
Strong sprint planning, capacity modeling, and roadmap sequencing skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities across reliability, feature delivery, and technical debt reduction.
Experience establishing engineering KPIs such as reliability, latency, throughput, and deployment frequency.
Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering large-scale production data platforms.
Strong foundation in distributed systems engineering and cloud-native architecture.
Great communication skills.
Ability to collaborate with different teams.
Self-motivated.
Focus on quality.
Commitment to engineering excellence and operational discipline is essential.

Skills

Data lakes
Data warehouses
Lakehouse architectures
ETL/ELT frameworks
Orchestration platforms
Distributed data processing systems
Kafka-based architectures
Event-driven data patterns
Distributed systems design
Performance optimization
Production reliability
Data modeling
Query performance
Architecture
Orchestration
Schema evolution
Partitioning strategies
Storage optimization
Streaming systems
APIs
Microservices
Cloud-native engineering
Cloud-native architecture

Experience Level

Manager

Salary/Compensations

$139,200.00 - $208,800.00

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) plan
Life insurance coverage
Disability benefits
Tuition assistance program
PTO
Bonus eligible
Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages
Generous paid time off

About the Company

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+.
Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels.
Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment™.
Paramount+ features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®.

Equal Opportunity

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off.
From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.
Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access https://www.paramount.com/careers as a result of your disability.
You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to paramountaccommodations@paramount.com.