Position Summary
Over the last few years, Samsung has been investing in building a portfolio of engaging services across its devices to complement its market-leading hardware business, while leveraging its unparalleled global distribution footprint. These services, coupled with a vast partner network and proprietary data, generate a massive opportunity for ad-based monetization. Six years into this journey, Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business. This business and its continued future success depend on the products, technologies, and tools owned by the Global Ads Product & Engineering team. Hundreds of people strong, with a substantial presence in five countries, the Global Ads P&E team is a dynamic and complex organization, operating across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains.
Are you a natural leader who enjoys working in a technically stimulating and challenging environment and thrives on making a significant impact within an organization? If so, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Infrastructure Data Architect to join our Samsung Ads Data Team. As an Architect, you will have the responsibility of leading the technical vision of the Engineering Platform services. This includes working closely with technical leads, product owners, and developers to drive toward a shared vision. You will be expected to actively contribute to the technical feasibility evaluations in collaboration with the product and engineering management teams to determine the technical approach and action plan, to deliver on set objectives with your team, and to ensure the services operate at a high-quality level.
Role And Responsibilities
The Engineering Platform Data team builds, operates, and offers shared services that benefit multiple engineering teams within Samsung Ads. These services are typically foundational, including data cataloging, visualization, transport, processing facilities, data lineage framework, distributed data stores, and more.
Responsibilities:
- Co-architect new services, including failure tolerance and self-healing by design, as well as establishing clear scaling-out paths
- Evaluating and benchmarking new solutions, establishing capacity and growth plans
- Co-implement deployment and configuration strategies for new services, including provisioning resources, and go-live
- Continuous improvement of internal services for ease of packaging, configuration, and deployment
- Organizing team meetings for knowledge sharing, architecture reviews, progress updates.
- Ensuring that information flows efficiently between your team and the rest of the organization as necessary.
- Monitoring all critical services, sharing on-call duties, troubleshooting, and addressing problems as they arise (including any needed changes in code, topology, resources, or configuration).
- Actively contributing and participating in recruitment activities for new team members.
- Actively participating in domains and engineering alignment meetings including Agile/Scrum ceremonies as a subject matter expert and enabler.
- Ensuring well-documented engineering practices are adopted, owned, and followed by the team.
Skills And Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Formal degree (BS or MS) in Computer Science, Math, related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Previous relevant experience leading a technical vision in an agile environment
- A minimum of 10 years of working experience in all aspects of software engineering, including coding, architecture, and infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and the ability to build solid relationships with peers.
- Very good analytical skills and the ability to creatively find solutions to complex problems
- Self-organized and the ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Results-driven and the desire to deliver quality projects in a timely manner.
- Strong knowledge of both SRE, Agile, and DevOps principles and how it applies to software engineering practices.
- Flexibility, collaboration, resourcefulness, and a positive attitude are the keys to success in this role
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in the cloud and traditional platform operations
- Expertise with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipeline development
- Expertise with container-based (e.g., PaaS/CaaS) cloud platforms (Kubernetes)
- Expertise with back-end development (e.g., RESTful API) (an asset)
Join our dynamic team and play a key role in shaping the future of our ad tech platform. If you're passionate about building cutting-edge advertising solutions and have a solid background in Engineering Platform Services, we would love to hear from you!
CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK ONLY
Compensation for this role is expected to be between $220,000 and $260,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.
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