Director/Senior Manager of Data Platform, SmartNews

Location: San Francisco/Palo Alto, CA

Posted: 9/2020

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SmartNews is a leading mobile app of news aggregation services. It analyzes millions of articles to deliver the most engaging information with high quality in near-real-time fashion to millions of users around the world. Our Data Platform is crucial for achieving SmartNew’s vision of delivering high-quality content through personalized discovery. The organization’s missions are the following:

Build highly efficient, scalable and secured data platforms as the foundation that can power data-driven applications in the domains of data analytics and AI across the company

Build consolidated and integrated high-level data services to help application-developers and data scientists to leverage data for innovations and decision making. Provide solutions for efficient data sets management and improving data quality for the core operations across the company

Responsibility

Director/Senior Manager of Data Platform is expected to build and lead a strong engineering team to accomplish the above mission:

Drive the overarching data platform vision, strategy and execution plan

Manage multiple teams of software engineers and data engineers to build a leading data platform in dimensions of volume, variety, and velocity, and is also privacy compliant

Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners to understand business needs and deliver data-driven solutions and toolings to drive business results

Establish and champion a data-driven culture, fostering the use of data for recommendation technologies as well as informing and making key business decisions

Requirements

Generally 7+ years of experience in software engineering, and 5+ years in data-driven platforms, and 5+ years in leading technical teams

Experienced with big data technologies (e.g. Spark/Flink/Hadoop/Pig, etc…), data integration, data modeling, data visualization and enjoy solving the challenges presented by processing data at big scale

Experienced working with data from various business functions, at different levels of scale, within various architectures & data models

Strong software engineering and data modeling experience in delivering data engineering solutions for the business

Able to build a strong team through hiring, as well as mentoring/growing engineers by constantly challenging them with solid support

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud-based architecture (e.g. Amazon Web Services)

Strong interest in news media and our mission