Index Exchange - Engineering Lead Manager - Data Platform

Description :

At Index Exchange, were reinventing how digital advertising worksat scale.

As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the worlds leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem.

Were a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution.

Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the worlds largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free.

We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day (in comparison, Google processes 8.

5 billion searches per day) with ultra-low latency.

Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure.

This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves.

At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture.

Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams.

From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising.

We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values.

About The Role :

The Engineering Lead Manager is a critical role within the Data Platform team with ownership over our high scale and low latency data processing pipelines and analytics platforms.

What Were Looking For :

• Data Engineering : Lead the transformation of the next generation of big data solutions at Index Exchange with real-time streaming and batch analytical capabilities.
• Collaborate and service to both internal and external customers and partners for their reporting and analytics as well as machine model training needs.
• Technical Leadership : You have gained experience and skills that enable you to chart a technical path for products, systems, and architectures.
• You are happy to be hands-on in the code, but your biggest impact is leading from the front and guiding others.
• Your role is to represent the technical health and future of the products you support while applying industry best practices towards designs and implementations.
• People Leadership : You know how to work with and lead a team of data engineers.
• You have demonstrated mentorship skills and set a technical vision to challenge your team in a way that empowers them to have incredible impact.
• You empower teams, who in turn build intricate systems that deliver great outcomes.
• Handler of Broad Scope : You thrive in environments where multiple projects and initiatives are under your ownership at different maturity levels.
• Specifically, when the number of initiatives is larger than the resources.
• You can manage your own and prioritize your teams time in each project to achieve the highest impact for the organization.
• You take sequencing of projects and tasks into consideration and proactively report progress and delays to drive coordination.
• Driver of Outcomes : You are intentional in your path, establishing a vision or hypothesis, setting a direction, and guiding your team through execution.
• You use data to inform pivots or to validate assumptions, and partner with the Product team to set a roadmap, establish goals and forecasts to achieve both technical and business outcomes.
• End-to-End Owner : You take great pride in the platforms your team owns and delivers, and take full responsibility for their quality, health, and outcomes.
• You lead your team in ensuring services remain healthy and that technical debt is regularly paid down.
• When issues arise, you lead your team in responding, mitigating, and addressing the issues to learn from them for the future.
• Organizational Coordinator : You are the first point of contact for your team, your platforms, your products, and your delivery plan.
• You foster a collaborative approach to delivery and leverage those relationships to unblock dependencies.
• You are a strong communicator and collaborator, responsive when issues arise, and celebrate successes by representing your team's achievements to the rest of the organization.

Here's What You Need :

Why Youll Love Working Here :

Equal employment opportunity :

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them.

As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities.

We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classificationdiversity is the human experience.

For those who show grit, passion, and humilityIndex will welcome you.

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities :

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you.

Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Index everywhere, Index anywhere :

Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities.

As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

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