Senior Data Engineer (R50027051)

Fox News Network - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Los Angeles, CA

About the position

The Senior Data Engineer will play a crucial role in the Data Platform team at Fox Corporation, focusing on the development and implementation of data features, pipelines, and platforms that deliver insights and data solutions. This position requires a blend of technical expertise and collaborative skills to assess data needs across the business and to lead the creation of automated solutions that enhance data accessibility and usability.

Responsibilities

• Execute FOX Data platform engineering roadmap aligning with product, engineering, platform, data science teams
• Manage and elevate team members to build strong engagement and grow their careers
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams for better collaboration with engineering, product, data science and scrum masters
• Identify the data needed for FOX business problems and implement data observability, ensuring quality, ETL completeness & availability of data with proactive alerting solutions
• Build data products, features, tools, and frameworks that empower data engineering and analytics teams across FOX.

Requirements

• A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience with professional experience in data platform team or in a similar role
• Expert knowledge of AWS Analytical Tech stack and services like Glue, Athena, Lake formation
• Excellent knowledge and expertise with SQL, T-SQL, PostgreSQL and Relational & Multi-dimensional Databases
• Strong understanding of AWS security services including KMS, parameter Stores and secret Managers
• Strong experience with Realtime Frameworks, collection, and processing Realtime data using Kinesis Data Streams, KDA and Firehoses
• Strong understanding of Kinesis/Glue frameworks and Spark Streaming for building Realtime analytics
• Extensive experience on Python, or similar scripting language to build engineering frameworks
• Experience in CICD framework, Preferably GitHub and GitHub Actions for version controlling or Orchestrating
• Expert knowledge on infrastructure as code services including Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
• Expert knowledge on Blue/Green Deployment for Lambda and Microservices
• Expert Knowledge on Elastic Containers and Elastic Container Services
• Strong experience with distributed data architectures and big data processing technologies (Spark, EMR, Hadoop, Hive)
• Proven ability to deliver high quality, production ready code
• Expert understanding of the agile software development life cycle.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Snowflake, Google BigQuery is a big plus
• Experience with Delta Lake technologies, Data Mesh Architecture is a plus
• Certifications in Amazon Web Services is a Huge Plus.