Manager, Data Engineering & Insights, Prime Video Advertising

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies series documentaries and live sports including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV Max Crunchyroll and MGM. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment Do you want to invent disrupt and redefine what entertainment means for fans creators and communities all around the globe

As part of the Prime Video team youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Also youll get to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people.
Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented creatives technologists marketing professionals and so much more you can decide where a career with Prime Video takes you!

We are seeking a highly skilled and technically adept Software Development Manager for Prime Video Advertising org who can lead both crafts on it: the data-platform and pipeline charter at its core and the software and GenAI systems work that is its future. Youll own the teams people delivery architecture direction and operational health end-to-end building a new team taking full ownership of a live platform through a structured transition and setting the direction for how the organization gets answers from advertising data.

You will build and scale big data platforms manage engineers building data pipelines and data lakes and drive the technical vision for the teams data infrastructure. You hire and grow the Data Engineers and Software Development Engineers that build this vision. The ideal candidate brings strong engineering depth in distributed data systems combined with proven people management skills to grow and develop a multi-discipline engineering team.

Youll be joining a team thats at the forefront of infrastructure innovation working on greenfield projects with significant business impact and building solutions that directly enable PVA teams to move faster and more efficiently.

Key job responsibilities
- Build lead and develop a hybrid team of Data Engineers and Software Development Engineers hiring ramping performance coaching and career growth across both crafts.
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the teams data platforms pipelines and data lakes
- Own end-to-end delivery operational excellence and on-call health for the advertising-measurement data platform and its associated software and GenAI systems.
- Set and steward the teams technical direction in partnership with your senior engineers data architecture and the four-layer lake on the DE side agent harness evaluation and query guardrails on the SDE side.
- Own stakeholder relationships with Prime Video Ads Finance Product and partner engineering teams negotiating roadmap scope and dependencies through the transition.
- Drive the teams AI-enablement charter the semantics layer and GenAI tooling from strategy through delivery and make the DE/SDE resourcing and trade-off decisions it requires.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence ownership and continuous improvement
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to align data platform roadmap with business priorities
- Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs to senior leadership

About the team
Prime Video Advertising - Data Measurement and Insights(PVA-DMI) team is a central data and analytics team within the PV-Ads org that plays a pivotal role in fueling the worldwide growth of Amazons video advertising business. We own data platform reporting dashboards measurement and analytical solutions for PV Ads.

- 7 years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with SQL
- Experience managing a data or BI team
- Experience leading and influencing the data or BI strategy of your team or organization
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python Java Scala or NodeJS
- Experience hiring developing and promoting engineering talent

- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop Hive Spark EMR
- Experience with AWS Tools and Technologies (Redshift S3 EC2)

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