Senior Data Engineer

Overview Of The Company

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

Job Description

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking.

About The Role

The FOX Data and Commercial Technology Team is looking for Senior Data Engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable, efficient, and high-quality Data Engineering solutions to join our Data Engineering team. This is a great opportunity to join a data-first media company and be part of our Enterprise Data Platform team that prides itself in making Fox a data-driven organization. If you enjoy designing and building innovative data engineering solutions using the latest tech stack in a fast-paced environment, this role is for you.

About You

• Strong curiosity about our business: you are willing to ask questions, do research, and build a deep understanding of the FOX landscape
• Innovative: you stay on top of industry developments, are excited about innovation, and look for ways to bring new ideas to our business. You are passionate about technology
• Enthusiasm about operational products and the opportunity they provide for creating outstanding employee experiences: you enjoy delivering products that make work easier for colleagues
• Perseverance in the face of ambiguity or roadblocks: you are a problem solver who uses all resources available to understand the issues and propose a path forward
• Emotional intelligence: you can read the room, know when to speak vs. when to listen, and know that connecting personally with your colleagues delivers positive outcomes
• Bridge building skills - you establish trusted and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, both business and technical
• A self-starter mentality - you are oriented to growth and are a quick learner
  
  

a Snapshot Of Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and across agile teams to design and develop data engineering solutions
• Build distributed, low latency, reliable data pipelines ensuring high availability and timely delivery of data
• Design and develop highly optimized data engineering solutions for Big Data workloads to efficiently handle continuous increase in data volume and complexity
• Build highly performing real-time data ingestion solutions for streaming workloads
• Adhere to best practices and agreed upon design patterns across all Data Engineering solutions
• Ensure the code is elegantly designed, efficiently coded, and effectively tuned for performance
• Focus on data quality and consistency, implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it
• Create design (Data Flow Diagrams, Technical Design Specs, Source to Target Mapping documents) and test (unit/integration tests) documentation
• Perform data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues
• Focus on end-to-end automation of data engineering pipelines and data validations (audit, balance controls) without any manual intervention
• Focus on data security and privacy by implementing proper access controls, key management, and encryption techniques
• Take a proactive approach in learning new technologies, stay on top of tech trends, experimenting with new tools & technologies and educate other team members
• Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization
• Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical leadership
  
  

What You Will Need

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant field
• Work Experience: Senior Data Engineer: 4+ years of experience in architecting, designing and building Data Engineering solutions and Data Platforms
• Experience in building Data Warehouses/Data Platforms on Redshift, Snowflake, or Data Bricks
• Experience working with data acquisition and transformation tools such as Fivetran and DBT
• Experience building highly optimized & efficient data engineering pipelines using Python, PySpark
• Experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, or Apache Spark or Flink
• Experience working with real-time data streams processing using Apache Kafka, Kinesis or Flink
• Experience working with various AWS Services (S3, EC2, EMR, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Glue Catalog)
• Expertise in Advanced SQL programming and SQL Performance Tuning
• Experience with version control tools such as GitHub or Bitbucket.
• Expert level understanding of dimensional modeling techniques.
• Excellent communication, adaptability, and collaboration skills.
• Excellent analytical skills, strong attention to detail with emphasis on accuracy, consistency, and quality
• Strong logical and problem-solving skills with critical thinking
  
  

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

• Experience in designing and building applications using Container and serverless technologies
• Experience working with fully automated workflow scheduling and orchestration services such as Apache Airflow
• Experience working with semi-structured, unstructured data, No SQL databases
• Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Experience designing and building APIs
  
  

Learn more about Fox Tech at

#foxtech

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company’s success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $121,500.00-170,000.00 annually for California. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.