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Warner Bros. Discovery · 4 days ago

Director, Data Engineering, CNN

positionAtlanta, GA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityDirector/Executive
date10+ years exp

Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading media and entertainment company, and they are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its Data Platform at CNN. This role involves defining and executing the data strategy, overseeing the design and development of Data Platform capabilities, and leading a team to enable data-driven journalism and advanced analytics.

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Responsibilities

Define and drive the execution of the CNN data strategy that supports all teams leveraging the Data Platform in achieving their goals
Align Data Platform initiatives with broader business and newsroom priorities to maintain and further extend CNN’s data driven culture
Collaborate and create consensus with engineering leaders across CNN to ensure timely delivery of high impact data products and governance features
Partner with product, analytics, and editorial leadership to deliver Data Platform capabilities that enable analytic insights which drive engagement and revenue features in addition to business decisions
Support the architectural development of the CNN Data Platform which is responsible for processing high volumes of batch and near real time data
Create consensus amongst Data Platform teams on the selection of technologies that effectively and economically support the Data Platform architecture
Lead Data Platform teams responsible for building and optimizing ETL pipelines that transform all ingested data into metrics and signals that are easily leveraged by all analytics, AI and ML teams
Guide the teams to monitor and maintain data quality, ensuring that all teams on the Data Platform can trust its data
Build stable Data Platform capabilities and pipelines that are aligned with CNN’s SDLC and do not compromise any data products built on it
Ensure governance, privacy and compliance standards are met by teams maintaining the Data Platform
Accountable for data processing budgets and Data Platform costs for all teams
Recruit and develop talent for rapidly growing data and platform engineering teams
Guide the next generation of engineering leaders on CNN Data Platform teams
Foster an inclusive culture of innovation, collaboration, strong ownership, and continuous improvement

Qualification

Data Platform architectureETL pipeline developmentBig data technologiesData governanceSoftware engineeringTeam leadershipAudience analyticsPersonalization technologiesAdvertising technologiesCommunication skills

Required

10+ years in software/data engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles
Proven track record of building, scaling and supporting Data Platforms for high traffic Web applications. Media, streaming, e-commerce, or similar preferred
Experience leading and setting priorities for large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams
Deep knowledge of the technologies and system architectures to support both backend cloud based distributed systems as well as front end client SDKs for client event collection
5+ years of experience in designing, building, and leading teams that maintain large-scale ETL pipelines that support big-data processing for both near real-time and batch data set, including expertise in data modeling, metadata curation, and modern big data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, and Iceberg
Strong software engineering background that can support architectural and engineering decisions across CNN Data Platform teams in addition to setting and enforcing engineering best practices
Experience in defining data strategies that include data governance and compliance standards as well as familiarity with setting, documenting and enforcing that strategy in engineer artifacts and standards in policy documents
Exceptional written language and communication skills to set clear expectations and create consensus with leaders, teams and engineers
Experience in news/media or content-driven organizations
Familiarity with audience analytics, personalization, and advertising technologies

Company

Warner Bros. Discovery

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Warner Bros.
dateFounded in 2022
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://wbd.com

H1B Sponsorship

Warner Bros. Discovery has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (32)
2024 (34)
2023 (47)
2022 (72)
2021 (82)
2020 (30)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$17.5B
Key Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO

Leadership Team

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David Zaslav
President and CEO
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Mark Thompson
CEO

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