Manager, Data Platform (15718) - Canada

Manager, Data Platform (15718) - Canada

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Manager, Data Platform - Canada (Remote)

Duration: Permanent
Location: Canada (Remote)
Start: ASAP

Who You Are:

    • We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Platform Development Manager to lead and coordinate the design, development, and maintenance of Getty Images’ data platform. As a key member of our technology team, you will play a meaningful role in crafting and optimizing our data infrastructure to support our business needs and drive data-driven decision-making.

Your Next Challenge:

    • Strategic Leadership:
    • Collaborate with senior leadership and partner teams to define the strategy, aligning it with business objectives and growth plans.
    • Identify opportunities to improve data capabilities and propose innovative solutions, reliability, accessibility, and utilization.
    • Lead by example, pursue success with determination, and encourage others to follow.

    • Team Management:
    • Manage a team of data engineers and platform developers providing mentorship, guidance, and encouraging a collaborative work environment.
    • Support team members in their career planning, development, and growth.
    • Manage and prioritize optimally to ensure timely delivery of data projects while maintaining high-quality standards.

    • Platform Development:
    • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust data platform services and tools, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security.
    • Drive the implementation of data pipelines, ETL processes, data integration, and transformation tasks to support various business functions.
    • Drive design and development of enterprise data warehouse and data analytics capabilities optimizing for speed, ease of access, reuse, and integration across the business.

    • Data Governance and Quality:
    • Establish and implement data governance standards, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations and industry standard methodologies.
    • Implement data quality measures and supervising mechanisms to guarantee the accuracy and integrity of the data stored in the platforms.
    • Drive enterprise data catalog development and integration automating data governance process and capabilities.

    • Collaboration and Communication:
    • Partner with multi-functional teams, including data science, analytics, and business units, to understand requirements and deliver data solutions that address their needs.
    • Communicate sophisticated technical concepts to non-technical team members, fostering understanding and alignment.

    • Technology Evaluation and Adoption:
    • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, implementing standard processes and platform development.
    • Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and technologies that can enhance the data platform's capabilities and performance.

    • Project Management:
    • Define project scopes, timelines, and resource requirements for data platform initiatives.
    • Monitor project progress, supervise key performance indicators, and address any issues that may arise during development and production support.

What You'll Need:

    • Demonstrable experience (8+ years) in data engineering, platform development, and data management, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
    • Strong expertise in database design, data modeling, ETL processes, and data integration.
    • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala, and experience with data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Hive, Spark).
    • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services.
    • Experience with SQL and No-SQL (Redis, Mongo, Dynamo, Neo4j, etc.).
    • Experience with enterprise data warehousing systems (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.).
    • Familiarity with distributed steaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, etc.).
    • Experience with message broker software (RMQ, MSQ, etc.).
    • Experience with workflow management tools such as Airflow, NiFi, AWS Step Functions, etc.
    • Experience with analytics, data visualization tools (Looker, Quick Sight,) is a plus.
    • Working experience with Terraform and Docker is valued.
    • Proficiency in working with Git.
    • Experience working and deploying in Linux environments.
    • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues and provide innovative solutions.
    • Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
    • Experience with data governance, data privacy regulations, and security standard processes is a plus.
    • Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Mental and Physical Demands:

    • A quiet location with reliable high-speed internet connectivity, environment suitable for professional work (desk, chair, external monitor, etc.)
    • Frequent communication with others to exchange information
    • Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary
    • Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc
    • Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment
Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping our data platform strategy and driving data excellence across our business. If you are a ground-breaking leader with a passion for data and technology, we invite you to apply and contribute to our mission of using data to achieve business success.

Benefits at Getty Images
 
Extended Health Insurance 
 
Time off Work/life balance is important to us
We provide flexible time off plus 3 sick days each calendar year. Additionally, we offer 16 weeks paid Maternity Leave for birth mothers, and 4 weeks fully paid leave for other new parents.
 
Company Paid Holidays
Employees enjoy company-paid holidays for each of our global locations.
 
Disability and Life Insurance
We automatically enroll and pay for Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D) up to 2 times your annual salary. We also provide you with fully paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance. 
 
Employee Assistance Program
Employees have access to free, confidential assistance for everyday problems such as stress management, financial coaching, marital or family issues, substance abuse, occupational problems, and referrals for legal, childcare, and eldercare services. Employees can seek additional discounts on other wellness activities such as travel, gym memberships, and sports! Through our EAP services, employees are also eligible for 3 free counseling visits and life coaching sessions.  

Group RRSP Matching Program 
Save for retirement by making contributions consistently and conveniently through payroll deductions. Plus, Getty Images will match 100% of your contributions, up to a maximum of 3% of your base salary! Contributions are taken from your gross pay BEFORE payroll taxes are calculated resulting in an immediate tax reduction. Participation is voluntary so you must enroll in the plan for contributions to begin. 
 
Learning & Growth
We value continuous learning and development to help everyone develop their skills. Enjoy mentorship, curated training & more.
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Who We Are:
Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace. Through Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash, we offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer—no matter their size—around the globe.

Getty Images encompasses the largest and best path to market for visual creators through their premier brands including its core, Getty Images; iStock, a value offering of creative stills and videos providing a significant volume of exclusive content to small and medium-sized businesses; and Unsplash, a free offering of creative stills servicing the fast-growing and broad-based creator economy. 

Help us move the world with images! Bringing award-winning imagery to everyone, Getty Images has customers in almost every country in the world, with websites in 23 languages, bringing the world’s best content to media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, small businesses and increasingly, direct to consumers.
 
Getty Images works with over 516,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events around the globe. With over 520 million assets, of which over 320 million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter.
 
Getty Images offers the most exclusive and unique creative and editorial visual content globally. The breadth and quality of our content allow our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, thereby eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world —whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Getty Images offers the highest quality and most diverse visual content, based on industry-leading expertise and innovation.

Leadership Principles
As a company, we're committed to living these Principles every day. Here's how we support our mission to be the best place to work globally.

We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest
We love character, authenticity, and integrity.

We always raise the bar
Excellence is our norm; we get better through endeavor, curiosity, and speed.

We collectively bring solutions
We love debate but collaborating to solve problems for ourselves and our customers is everyone’s responsibility.

We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful
We will not tolerate rudeness.

We reject biased behavior and discrimination
We seek to understand biases in all forms. We call out biases and discrimination when observed and take action where responsible.

We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences
Diversity and inclusion are never done, but we are passionate in their pursuit.

We are one Getty Images with no silos
We share goals and accountability; we and actively seek information and expertise; we make time for our peers.

We deliver on our commitments, and commercial goals
With one voice and shared accountability.

We put the customer at the heart of everything we do
We listen to, anticipate, and exceed customer needs, adapting as they evolve.


We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or submitting an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com.

Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique ​​role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life. 
 
For company news and announcements, visit our Press Room, and for the stories and inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends.
 
Find Getty Images on Facebook, Twitter, InstagramLinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr, or download the Getty Images app where you can explore, save and share the world's best imagery. 
 
Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world with images and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire on the basis of merit, competence, performance, and business needs. 
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