Data Platform QA 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 TEAM

The Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives. We are building a modern data platform to support enterprise data needs. Our mission and yours too should you choose to, is to empower and enable our data community of data engineers, data scientists, analysts, product teams and decision makers to create value.

The Core Data Services team consists of Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Enablement and Operations teams. We are building a highly functional, performant modern enterprise Data Lake while supporting our current data platforms so the focus is on maximizing functionality, creating value and content/data assets, cost optimizations and usability of the data delivery and services and all this is our measure of our success and defines us The Core Data Services Team! We are looking for a Data Platform QA Engineer, You!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
• Develop automation tests for Core Data Platform services and tools using Python, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, AWS S3 etc.
• Take ownership of building our internal testing framework
• Influence the service development process towards quality-centric methodologies
• Help develop and maintain quality standards that support the SDLC for data pipelines development to release
• Analyze data in order to find areas for service optimization
• Execute benchmark, load, stress and other non-functional performance tests; monitor application logs and statistics to determine system behavior; log all technical issues in JIRA for service enhancements
• Train, motivate, mentor, and coach Data Engineering teams to ensure that platform services are properly used
• Assist in the recruiting process

TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
• Agile development methodologies using the Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence
• Good understanding of Data Lakes, Data Warehouses is important to have
• Software development, coding expertise in the Data Science field using any of the Python/Spark/Scala/R/Java is good to have
• Any visualization experience is an advantage so you can bring clarity to prod incidents by using them is a nice to have
• Decent expertise using ANSI SQL and Spark SQL is key to have
• Workflow automation, orchestration using Airflow, Rundeck, GoAnywhere or the equivalent tools stack
• Good to have: working knowledge of any of these : Databricks, Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Hadoop and related stacks is good to have
• An understanding of cloud services from any of the Amazon AWS, Google GCP or Microsoft Azure is nice to have
• An understanding of streaming (Kafka) and batch based data sources is nice to have
• An understanding of diverse data sources and data formats (xml, json, yaml, parquet, avro, delta) and respective use cases is good to have:
• An excellent understanding of the nuances that add complexities around time zones, geo, various data formats, data types across different storage systems is nice to have
• Experience using version control systems such as Git and CI/CD workflows

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 childcare cash, 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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0z81e-3-149-229-253-42 in your application.