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The Senior Manager for Emerging Technologies is a senior-level engineering leadership role responsible for Data Engineering with Strong hands on Expereince in designing and delivering scalable data platforms. This role involves working closely with senior executives, cross-functional engineering teams, and key business units and managing large-scale data pipelines and driving high-volume data movement across distributed systems. This role requires deep technical expertise ,leadership in solution architecture, and the ability to guide teams through complex data engineering challenges.

What you’ll be doing…

You will be lead the design, and delivery of scalable data pipelines and platforms that support high-volume data processing.. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to closely work with cross-functional teams to architect robust data solutions ,ensure data data Quality and drive performance optimization.

• Performing cross-functional, multidisciplinary technical oversight to include evaluation of project work, scope, resources, methods and associated procedures related to org level initiatives.
• Understanding technical and functional architecture of current systems in Verizon Data Services business and bring in data architecture recommendation for building design, scalable data platforms that support high-volume data processing

with a focus on advancing AI, Gen AI and Agentic AI initiatives

• Identifying new technologies, continuous evaluation of evolving industry trends, and best practices, which can be applied in the applications and drive overall IT/Business benefits.
• Drive innovation and thought leadership in the team and building a strong pipeline for innovation/ideas and help guide the teams navigate from conceptual to implementation phases. Drive hackathons and ideathons at Org level.
• Influence and align cross-functional teams and business units to ensure cohesive execution of AI-driven objectives and goals. Partnering with Associate fellows and architects across consumer business on several org level initiatives.
• Mentoring and developing next level Principal Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning in emerging technologies will also be a core aspect of this role.
• Publish white papers, patents and research findings to position the organization as an industry leader in emerging technologies
• Working with startups to drive partnerships in developing Niche solutions for Consumer Business.

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

You'll need to have:

• Master’s degree or Six or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of experience of leading design, conceptualizing, designing and architecture of complex IT systems solutions.
• Six or more years of relevant experience engaging in product, technology and Industry evaluations.
• Proficiency in designing and maintaining reliable, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Expertise in batch and streaming data processing.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, partitioning strategies, and storage optimizations.
• Experience in Migration from monolithic systems to cloud-native, distributed architectures (e.g., BigQuery).
• Adaptation of real-time architecture patterns.
• Experience in Implementation of data observability, quality, and lineage tools.

alignment with open standards.

• Experience in Compliance with data governance and privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
• Experience in Leveraging CI/CD pipelines.
• Exploring the use of AI/ML for data operations and anomaly detection.

Integrating metadata-driven automation and event-driven architectures.

• Encouraging experiments with emerging technologies such as GenAI in data cleansing and summarization.
• Strong background in leading the larger teams in design and delivery of scalable Data systems architecture, data engineering, and cloud-native technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), application performance monitoring using industry leading tools and data visualization.
• Experience in 4G & 5G Wireless Telecom especially in RAN network along with RF Engineering skills
• Experience in handling multiple stakeholders and large vendor teams

• Five or more years of experience in defining architecture and building Conversational AI solutions with latest technologies like Google Dialog Flow, ReactJS, Springboot based microservices
• Expertise in AI, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI techniques, Autonomous experiences (Agentic AI) and Digital Twins
• Proficiency in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other AI/ML frameworks.
• Experience with MLOps, data ethics, and large-scale AI deployment.
• Experience in filing patents and holding white papers and patents.
• Affiliations with architecture and design industry forums.
• Awareness of Security and Legal requirements related to IT solutions
• Experience in driving innovation in organizations via hackathons, ideathons and technology evangelism.
• Experience providing guidance to the delivery teams in articulating Solution Architecture and converting them into implementable Technical Designs.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Certifications in the specific technology areas.
• Ability to represent the team/application areas in various technology forums both internal and external.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with skills in negotiations and building strong consensus with all stakeholders.
  Experience in playing the role of a technology person and a vivid speaker who has represented in technology forums.
• Experience in consulting roles to drive digital adoption across multiple business domains.
• Strong relationship skills and collaborative style to enable success across multiple partners.
• Strong commercial mindset and orientations to driving business value (revenue growth and expense mitigation).

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Additionally, we are also looking for candidates with RF Engineering skills and/or wireless Telecom domain experience.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.