Data Platform Engineer

Job Description

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

THE ROLE

At Live Nation, we are passionate about building the best-in-class data architecture to support analytics and data science use cases that drive the best ''live'' experience for the fans. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be challenged and be part of an innovative team to find solutions that will deliver the right methods, standards, techniques, and capabilities to support data delivery and governance.

You will be in contact with a diverse array of stakeholders within the Corporate division and other internal customers. The data platforms and data movement tools and technology you will iteratively deploy and manage will set a new standard for agile data delivery, performance, practicality, and scalability of the data platform.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
• Deploy and manage data platforms and data movement solutions both in the cloud and on-premise
• Build scalability and performance into our data platforms to meet the growing needs of our analytics users
• Partner with agile data engineering teams and use DevOps methodologies to create automated, efficient CI/CD processes to reduce the time to promote, test and deploy code
• Partner with Information Security team to ensure data is secure both at-rest and in-flight
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain efficient reusable patterns for streaming and batch data ingestion pipeline architectures
• Evaluate vendor-supplied software and deploy them as needed for data ingestion use cases
• Integrate data platforms to leverage efficiencies and automation within the stack
• Document and maintain key architecture and coding standards for supported platforms
• Act as first line support for data platforms to maintain peak operating efficiency and ensure maximum uptime
• Ensure data platforms remain current to take advantage of the latest features and remediate vulnerabilities
• Communicate status of assigned work to management and follows agile practices and procedures covered by precedents, standards, or policies
• Seek guidance when direction is needed and speak up about technology risks identified and own addressing them with the team
• Influence peers on the team with questions and insight
• Be open to learn, train and develop as a team

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
• Minimum 3+ years in data management and 1+ years managing and supporting cloud data platforms preferred
• Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or any other technology related field. An equivalent of the same in working experience is also accepted for the position
• Extensive experience in the deployment of data platforms and tools in a cloud environment
• Experience working with cloud provider tools and architecture (Azure & AWS)(AWS preferred)
• Experience using scripting languages such as bash, SQL and/or Python, Teraform
• Experience in management and tuning of data platforms (Databricks/Delta Lake required)
• Experience with a broad set of data ingestion and data pipeline patterns, and associated tools like (Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks)
• Experience managing or administering orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
• Experience with designing data ingestion solutions from a wide range of data sources and connections like SaaS API connections, SFTP, real-time streaming and Change Data Capture
• Preferred experience with working in an agile product development
• Preferred experience working with and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and versioning tools such as Git
• Good communication skills and ability to articulate system designs and patterns to varying levels of leadership.
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BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is 'Taking Care of Our Own' through 6 pillars of benefits:
• HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

Live Nation's policy regarding vaccinations and masking will evolve based upon updated regulations and factors related to COVID-19. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test within [24] hours of entering an office.

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