About the team
This role is a member of our Data Platform team focusing on Data products and solutions to enterprise services, leveraging TikTok's cutting-edge data infrastructure and data application. You will be helping enterprise customers to build their next generation data warehouse and data analytics, enabling them to do things that were not possible before.

What you will be doing:
We are looking for an innovative Senior Technical Manager to join the team. As the Senior Technical Manager, you will oversee the company's technical team and all projects they undertake, analyze briefs, write progress reports, identify risks, and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals.

Responsibilities
• Align with the Tiktok business teams on the values & goals & strategy & roadmaps, empower the Tiktok business with data and data engineering capabiilties
• Lead and manage Data engineering teams, plan for the goal and roadmap for the team
• Lead and establish development guidelines, standards and best practices
• Ensure the data platform & pipeline & solution's high stability & high scalability & high efficiency & high security & low latency
• Define standards and guidelines for data engineering development and operations
• Promote engineering culture through promoting technology innovations, pushing for engineering execellences
• Lead the team with vision on the emerging technologies and digital trends that are most relevant to the company's goals and evolving needs
• Hire, develop, evaluate, reward, and retain a highly productive & innovated team

Qualifications

Requirements
• Bachelor and above Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or relevant disciplines;
• At least 15 years of experience in big data industry, with at least 8 years of experience in managing the data engineering team with 100+ members in internet companies or comparable high-paced businesses
• At least 8 years of experiences of PB above scale level data platform, excellent knowledge and experiences of big data tech stacks, such as Hadoop/HDFS/Kafka/MapRedcue/Spark/Flink/Storm/StructuredStreaming/Clickhouse/Presto/Impala/Doris/Druid/Kylin/Hudi/Delta/Iceberg/Kudo/...
• Expert in data warehousing and data lake theory & methodology
• Expert in data management, data governance, data architecture design
• Strong technical knowledge of data integrations, ETL, data warehouse, data lake, data modelling
• Strong coding skills in SQL/Python/Java/Scala/...
• Good communication skills, with excellent technical and business combination ability
• Rich experiences of leading and driving large-scale project/initiatives - which require complex cross-team collaborations over 3 months
• Good knowledge of BI & Analytical & DevOps methodologies and related products
• Business value oriented
• Experience in setting up big data platform and data engineering teams from a start-up phase to an established team and business would be highly preferred
• Experiences of leading global multicultural team is highly preferred

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.