Staff Technical Lead Manager

Role Summary
As the Technical Lead and People Manager for the Identity Engine team, you will be at the forefront of developing LiveRamp's first-party identity resolution platform. Identity Engine allows customers to configure their own resolution rules and workflows against their first-party data, unifying disparate sources into a persistent, customer-specific identifier — either as a configuration and recognition layer on top of LiveRamp's AbiliTec Identity Graph, or standalone to build an independent first-party graph. You will lead the team responsible for the platform's backend, orchestrating large-scale, configuration-driven resolution jobs across GCP and AWS, and helping enterprise clients build and activate a first-party identity graph in hours rather than months.

Key Responsibilities
Drive the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Identity Engine team, ensuring alignment with LiveRamp's overall engineering and product goals.
Lead a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Oversee the day-to-day execution and delivery of Identity Engine's data preparation, resolution, and export capabilities, ensuring operational excellence and quality at scale.
Anticipate and resolve complex issues and conflicts that extend beyond the team's direct area of responsibility.
Hold other teams accountable for quality and timely delivery when dependencies exist.
Actively engage in long-term (12-month) Product planning and priority setting, helping to define the strategic roadmap for Identity Engine.
Be the primary technical liaison for Product Management, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment of product initiatives.
Help identify, develop, and hire strategic skills to enhance the overall capabilities of the LiveRamp engineering organization.
Maintain a significant individual contributor (IC) component (approximately 50% of time), focusing on complex technical challenges, architecture, and code quality reviews.

Required Qualifications
2+ years of demonstrating strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to deliver on products as the technical lead.
8+ years of hands-on development experience, ideally leveraging Java or other JVM based languages.
You oversee coding of critical areas and develop the most difficult code across multiple system components, driving high coding standards and improving development practices.
Demonstrated experience driving complex designs, high-quality interface/API designs, and overall architecture improvements across multiple teams and services, leading design reviews and ensuring consistent architecture.
Track record of driving product/service design and vision inside engineering, using global industry and market trends to deliver successful products and fulfilling unexpressed client wants.
Experience mentoring more junior engineers, providing technical guidance, and contributing to talent identification at Staff Level & above.
Strong communicator. Sharing information regularly and concisely.

Good to Have
Knowledge of the adTech space and particularly the identifiers used in the field.
Experience with large-scale distributed data processing (e.g., Apache Spark) and cloud data infrastructure across GCP and AWS (e.g., Dataproc, Dataflow, GKE, EMR).
Experience with Temporal