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Job Summary
Development Manager – GIS and Data Platforms
Experience: 8+ Years in Software Engineering, including 3+ Years in a People Manager or Technical Leadership Role
Role Overview
The Development Manager leads the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable data and platform engineering solutions.
This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and execution ownership to build high-performing teams and deliver resilient, scalable applications and data platforms.
The manager works closely with product, architecture, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, drive Agile delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, design, and implementation of software and data engineering solutions, including new capabilities, enhancements, and modernization efforts. - Manage end-to-end delivery for engineering initiatives, ensuring adherence to timelines, quality standards, and business objectives. - Provide technical and organizational leadership to the engineering team, guiding architecture, design reviews, development practices, and operational excellence. - Partner with product, architecture, and stakeholder teams to identify requirements, prioritize work, and align delivery with strategic goals. - Drive Agile execution across the team, monitor project progress, track engineering metrics, and communicate status, risks, and outcomes to leadership. - Oversee the rollout of releases, support production readiness, and improve system reliability, performance,observability, and security. - Build and develop a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development. - Promote innovation and continuous improvement by evaluating tools, technologies, and best practices relevant to large-scale data and platform engineering.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on technical background in software engineering and data engineering. - Experience designing, building, and managing ETL pipelines and large-scale data processing workflows. - Strong understanding of data management concepts, including data quality, governance, lineage, reliability, and performance optimization. - Experience with cloud-based data platforms and services, preferably AWS and modern data engineering ecosystems. - Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Concourse, Terraform, or similar. - Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Solid knowledge of development practices and testing frameworks, with strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills. - Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and balance architectural quality with delivery commitments.
Good to Have
- Experience with GIS technologies. - Experience with network topology, data platforms, or telecom domain applications. - Familiarity with modern API, platform, and cloud-native engineering patterns.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 8+ years of overall experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data platform development. - 3+ years of experience leading teams as a people manager, technical lead, or engineering manager. - Demonstrated ability to manage delivery, develop talent, and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
-Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
-Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
-Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
-Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas
-Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
-Drive results and growth.
-Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
-Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years
