Senior Data Engineer

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

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.

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

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 International data community of product, engineering, data scientists, analysts teams and decision makers to create value using data assets that you help build.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer, You!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Support current technology stack (MS*Server, SSIS & Talend) for one of our key teams: the International team!

• Design, develop, test data pipelines and modernize it for scale and stability

• Partner with our 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

• Tinker and explore use cases for Machine Learning

You! If It Is You & The Role

• You hold a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or equivalent Engineering discipline

• You have experience building Data Lakes, Data Warehouses using the Big data & cloud stack

• dimensional/star schema data modeling

• 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

• Nice to have: Databricks, Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Hadoop and related stack

• Good to have: diverse data sources and data formats (xml, json, yaml, parquet, avro, delta) and respective use cases

• Good to have: knowledge of version control systems such as git and CI/CD workflows and practices

• You love learning, are motivated and a self starter

• Agile development methodologies using the Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence

• Support and stabilize production environments

• Excellent communication skills

• ETL design, development using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Talend

• Nice to have ANSI SQL and Spark SQL

• Nice to have work flow automation, orchestration using Airflow,

• Nice to have: cloud services from Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure

• Nice to have: streaming (Kafka) and batch based data sources

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