Senior Manager, AdTech Engineering
You will lead multiple agile teams across front-end systems, real-time data ingestion pipelines, DSP/SSP integrations, and analytics infrastructure. By aligning enterprise business goals with full-stack technical roadmaps, you will scale high-throughput ad-delivery networks, maintain strict privacy and data compliance, optimize multi-cloud infrastructure spending, evaluate strategic vendor partnerships, and serve as an internal advisor on emerging AdTech industry trends
WHAT'S THE DAY TO DAY LIKE?
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Strategic Leadership & Multi-Team Management: Lead, mentor, and scale multiple engineering teams across Front-End, Data Engineering, and Platform Integration domains, driving career development, engineering culture, and cross-team alignment.
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End-to-End Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the unified technical roadmap across user-facing platforms, visualization dashboards, and big-data processing pipelines (e.g., DSP/SSP, DMP syncs, event streaming).
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Strategic Vendor & Partner Management: Participate in vendor selection, technical due diligence, contract negotiations, and ongoing relationship management for third-party AdTech tools, data partners, and platform integrations to ensure flawless execution and high ROI.
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AdTech Market Intelligence & Knowledge Sharing: Continuously monitor evolving AdTech industry trends, emerging regulations, cookieless identity solutions, and marketplace shifts; translate insights into strategic briefings and actionable technical roadmaps for executive leadership.
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Product & Platform Lifecycle Oversight: Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, setting standardizations for code quality, performance metrics, data governance, and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
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Cross-Functional & Strategic Alignment: Partner with Product, Data Science, Ad Operations, and external AdTech partners to translate complex commercial objectives into scalable, future-proof platforms.
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Data Processing & Machine Learning Integration: Oversee high-throughput data processing systems and machine-learning workflows (e.g., dynamic campaign optimization, audience segmentation).
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Infrastructure Optimization & Governance: Direct cloud cost optimization across hybrid and cloud environments (GCP/BigQuery and Snowflake), ensuring system reliability, security, accessibility (A11Y), and global ad privacy compliance.
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Technical Debt & Architectural Health: Proactively identify systemic dependencies and architectural bottlenecks, balancing rapid commercial feature delivery with long-term platform health and refactoring initiatives.
WE ARE HOPING YOU HAVE:
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Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or related technical field. 10+ years of total software engineering and data experience, with at least 6+ years of direct people management experience over multi-disciplinary or multi-team engineering units.
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AdTech Domain Expertise: Proven track record building enterprise digital advertising ecosystems, including programmatic platforms (DSP/SSP), DMPs, audience signals, and real-time ad delivery networks. Demonstrated ability to track industry shifts and evaluate external vendor platforms.
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Vendor Strategy & Delivery: Strong track record managing complex vendor ecosystems, negotiating technical contracts, evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, and overseeing vendor integration execution.
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Full-Stack Technical Depth:
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Front-End: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript, client frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), build tooling, and data visualization libraries (e.g., D3.js, ECharts) for heavy analytical dashboards.
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Data & Cloud Infrastructure: Deep knowledge of distributed data frameworks (Apache Spark, Airflow, Google Cloud Dataflow), cloud data warehouses (BigQuery/GCP, and Snowflake), SQL, and event-streaming pipelines (Python/Scala).
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Systems Architecture: Experience designing high-availability APIs, microservices, and hybrid cloud infrastructures designed to ingest, process, and render high-volume behavioral signals.
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Compliance & Governance: In-depth understanding of global digital advertising privacy laws, consent frameworks, and data governance.
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Executive Presence: Exceptional strategic communication skills with a proven ability to align technical roadmaps with non-technical executive leadership and commercial goals.
YOU ARE MADE FOR THIS IF YOU..
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Possess a systemic vision capable of bridging low-latency front-end rendering with high-volume back-end data processing.
Excel at translating technical complexity into strategic value for executive stakeholders, commercial partners, and internal business units. -
Are a natural industry strategist who thrives on staying ahead of market shifts, emerging advertising specs, and vendor innovation.
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Are passionate about servant leadership—coaching engineering leaders, building inclusive team cultures, and optimizing delivery workflows.
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Drive continuous innovation by evaluating emerging AdTech standards, machine learning workflows, and modern cloud technologies.
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Balance rigorous engineering quality, vendor relationship management, and technical debt management with high-speed business execution.
DON’T MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS? DON’T WORRY…Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Pelmorex values and welcomes diverse experiences. While having “desired” qualifications makes for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Pelmorex. We are always looking for people who will be a culture add (yup, that's right, we don’t subscribe to culture fit, we want you to add to what we think is an amazing culture and work environment
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- How many years of experience do you have architecting or managing high-throughput programmatic AdTech platforms (e.g., DSP, SSP, DMP, or ad servers)?
- How many years of experience do you have as a direct people manager leading hybrid teams composed of both Data Engineers and Software Developers?
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