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.
Director, Software Engineering - Data Platform, Hyderabad
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
The Data Platform team at Warner Bros. Discovery powers data-driven experiences across global products like Max, Discovery+, Sports, Studios, and News. The team builds and operates a scalable, multi-tenant data ecosystem that enables analytics, real-time insights, and machine learning use cases across the organization. Positioned at the core of the data journey, the team is responsible for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of client and server-side data into reliable and high-quality datasets. Operating at the intersection of data and platform engineering, the team focuses on building robust pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and driving innovation in real-time processing, observability, and modern data infrastructure. The team collaborates closely with product, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to enable data-driven decision-making at scale.
Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead critical Data Platform capabilities across data infrastructure, data processing, self-service enablement, governance, metadata, access, reliability, and operational excellence.
This is a senior engineering leadership role for a leader who can manage engineering managers and senior technical teams, drive platform strategy, improve execution discipline, and operate large-scale systems with strong reliability and cost awareness.
The role does not require deep expertise in one specific technology or deep machine learning specialization. However, the candidate must be well versed in modern data platform concepts, distributed systems, cloud platforms, engineering operations, and enterprise-grade governance.
Lead engineering teams responsible for foundational Data Platform capabilities used across analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, operational workflows, and AI/ML enablement.
Own execution across platform infrastructure, data collection, batch and streaming data processing, metadata, access governance, FinOps, observability, and self-service platform capabilities.
Drive platform maturity with a focus on reliability, automation, governance, developer experience, security, cost efficiency, and operational readiness.
Partner closely with engineering, product, program management, analytics, data science, operations engineering, security, and business stakeholders.
Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, customer impact, reliability, inclusion, and high standards.
Coach managers and senior engineers to improve technical judgment, execution quality, stakeholder communication, and operational discipline.
Create clear operating mechanisms for roadmap planning, prioritization, delivery tracking, risk management, and leadership updates.
Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering managers, staff engineers, senior engineers, and emerging technical leaders.
Platform Strategy and Delivery
Drive modernization of data platform capabilities across storage, compute, orchestration, ingestion, access, metadata, governance, and self-service workflows.
Ensure platform investments improve developer productivity, data trust, business velocity, governance, and operational scale.
Establish strong operational practices across owned systems, including SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, incident response, RCAs/COEs, and post-incident learning.
Ensure major launches have clear readiness criteria, monitoring, rollback strategy, ownership, support model, and communication plan.
Partner with operational tooling and platform teams to improve observability, cost transparency, anomaly detection, and self-service support.
Governance, Metadata, and Data Trust
Drive adoption of metadata, lineage, ownership, classification, data quality, access review, and lifecycle management practices.
Improve the discoverability and trustworthiness of data assets through cataloging, documentation, schema management, and data product standards.
Self-Service and Developer Experience
Lead initiatives that reduce manual engineering dependency through self-service onboarding, automated access workflows, reusable templates, and standard platform patterns.
Create consistent platform standards that help teams move faster while staying within reliability, privacy, security, and cost guardrails.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with product, TPM, analytics, data science, operations engineering, security, finance, and business teams.
Drive alignment on roadmap priorities, launch readiness, ownership boundaries, operational support, and business impact.
Represent Data Platform in architecture reviews, roadmap discussions, leadership forums, and executive updates.
Experience operating large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, cloud platforms, or infrastructure platforms.
Strong understanding of modern data platform concepts such as batch and stream processing, data lakehouse architecture, metadata, governance, access control, orchestration, observability, and cost management.
Strong operational excellence mindset, including incident management, monitoring, SLOs, runbooks, RCA/COE practices, and production readiness.
Experience driving self-service platforms, automation, developer productivity, and scalable engineering workflows.
Experience with large-scale data platforms using technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Spark, Kubernetes, AWS, or similar platforms.
Experience with metadata, catalog, lineage, governance, and data quality platforms such as DataHub, Unity Catalog, Monte Carlo, or similar tools.
Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI platform enablement, including governance, observability, model or prompt lifecycle, or data readiness for AI use cases.
Experience supporting data products, semantic layers, data certification, and self-service onboarding.
Experience working in media, streaming, advertising, consumer product, or high-scale digital platform environments.
Production reliability improves through stronger monitoring, runbooks, launch readiness, and incident learning.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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