Senior Data Engineer I

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 550 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000
artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE TEAM

The Marketing & Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives. We are building a highly functional, performant modern 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!

Our mission and yours too should you choose to, is to empower and enable our data community of engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision makers to create value. 

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer, You!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Design, develop, test data pipelines for scale by leveraging our services-based framework and help test and contribute features to it
• Partner with our project, product, engineering, operations and BI teams regularly as part of the development life cycle
• Document your work and help maintain our existing documents using Confluence, Google Docs, Lucid Charts and other such tools stack
• Work with our vendors and data providers

YOU’LL BE A GOOD MATCH IF

• You know agile development methodologies and development life cycles.
• You know how to translate user stories into technical requirements and in turn into a code and a tangible reliable workflow. 
• You are curious and enjoy problem solving in the data world using Data Science tools stack.
• You understand metadata and help catalog and build as part of the development life cycle.
• You are comfortable with big data volumes, velocities and stay your ground when production incidents occur.
• You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/data science/mathematics or equivalent engineering discipline.
• You love learning, are a self-starter.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING (TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)

• Agile development methodologies using the Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence
• 5+ years of focused experience in data engineering and data centric projects.
• Building Data Lakes, Data Warehouses using the Big data & cloud stack
• dimensional/star schema data modeling
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Athena/S3, Google BigQuery, MySQL, Hadoop and related stacks
• Software development expertise in the Data Science field using
  • Python/Spark/Scala/R/Java
  • ANSI SQL and Spark SQL
• Expert level in designing efficient data ingestion and transformation for scale and performance
• Experience with workflow automation, orchestration using Airflow, Rundeck, GoAnywhere or the equivalent tools stack
• Experience with cloud services from Amazon AWS, Google GCP
• Experience with streaming (Kafka) and batch based data sources
• Experience with diverse data sources and data formats (xml, json, yaml, parquet, avro, delta) and respective use cases
• Experience with using version control systems such as git and CI/CD workflows and practices
• Experience with compliance, privacy related functionality such as CCPA, GDPR
• Nice to know: Docker, Kubernetes

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