Sr Principal, System Architecture (Digital AdTech)
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Define long-term architecture for AI-powered and agentic automation across large-scale AdTech platforms.
- Architect autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems for deployment orchestration, infrastructure lifecycle, and incident response.
- Design and evolve foundational AdOps, optimization, identity, data, measurement, and activation platforms.
- Establish patterns for multi-region, highly available, fault-isolated, disaster-resilient, and high-performance systems.
- Lead platform rationalization, cloud migration, legacy modernization, and convergence of linear and digital advertising systems.
- Evaluate emerging technologies in streaming, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, agentic AI, and privacy technology.
- Establish architectural governance and decision frameworks while mentoring Principal engineers and architects.
- Review and approve high-impact system architectures and align engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical trade-offs.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms, including large-scale ingestion, transformation, and activation pipelines.
- Experience automating high-availability, high-throughput production environments using AI and agentic architectures.
- Advanced knowledge of Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Spark, Flink, Presto, Kafka, Kinesis, and Pub/Sub.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, cloud-native data design, APIs, and serverless architectures.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms into modular, cost-efficient systems and optimizing distributed systems for throughput, latency, and cost.
- Familiarity with identity resolution, audience graphs, and cross-platform measurement systems in media, advertising, or comparable high-scale transaction domains.
- Deep knowledge of data engineering practices, CI/CD automation, observability, data lineage, governance, and compliance.
- Strong understanding of ad-tech, programmatic ecosystems, ML/AI-driven data products, privacy-first architectures, GDPR, CCPA, and VPPA.
- Experience leading technical evaluations, vendor integrations, and collaborations with third-party data providers, cloud platforms, and open-source communities.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
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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 WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****