Software Developer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

FOX Entertainment

With a legacy spanning more than 35 years, FOX Entertainment is one of the world’s most recognizable media brands and a prolific content producer across its iconic broadcast network and both owned and third-party streaming platforms. Known for its independent, innovative spirit and provocative, groundbreaking storytelling, the company was reinvented in 2019 with the formation of FOX Entertainment. While maintaining its leadership in broadcast television (9-1-1: Lone Star, The Simpsons, The Cleaning Lady, Hell’s Kitchen, LEGO Masters), the company is actively building a portfolio of businesses and library of owned original content. To date, FOX Entertainment’s long-term growth strategy has included the acquisitions of award-winning animation studio Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers, The Great North, Krapopolis, Grimsburg), entertainment platform TMZ, and global production studio MarVista Entertainment (The Way Home, Rescuing Christmas), as well as the formation of the culinary and lifestyle content venture Studio Ramsay Global (Next Level Chef, Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars) in partnership with Gordon Ramsay. The company also established its in-house unscripted studio FOX Alternative Entertainment (The Masked Singer, Snake Oil, I Can See Your Voice, Name That Tune), FOX Entertainment Studios (Animal Control) to develop scripted content, and worldwide content sales unit FOX Entertainment Global.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Duties:

As part of FOX’s Data Platform team, Fox Cable Network Services, LLC seeks a Software Developer (Senior Data Platform Engineer) to play a key role in envisioning, implementing, and evangelizing new features, pipelines, and platforms that not only delivery data, but insight.  Play an essential role in assessing the most impactful data needs throughout the business and lead the charge in identifying automated solutions that help bring data to life.  Specific duties include: 1) Execute FOX Data platform engineering roadmap aligning with product, engineering, platform, data science teams.  2) Lead and elevate team members with the ability to get the best out of them and build strong engagement and grow their careers.  3) Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to have better collaboration with engineering, product, data science and scrum masters.  4) Identify the data needed for FOX business problems and implement data observability, ensure quality, ETL completeness and availability of data, with proactive altering solutions.  5) Build data products, features, tools, and frameworks that enable and empower data engineering and analytics teams across FOX with its data.  Discern appreciation of best practices in designing data lakes/lake houses as well as mentor junior members and be involved in peer review and recommendation. Telecommuting is permitted up to 50%/week within normal commuting distance of Fox office in Los Angeles, CA.

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering or related field, plus five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in data platform engineering or related data engineering experience, including experience in delivering high quality, production ready code; SQL, T-SQL, PostgreSQL; and relational and multi-dimensional databases

*Specific skills: Also requires experience or knowledge in the following: 1) AWS security services including KMS, Parameter Stores and Secret Managers; 2) AWS analytical tech stack and services such as Glue, Athena and Lake Formation; 3) CI/CD, GitHub, Terraform and CloudFormation or CDK; 4) Blue/green deployment for Lambda and microservices; 5)  Elastic Containers and Elastic Container Services; 6) Distributed data architectures and big data processing technologies such as Spark, EMR, Hadoop and Hive; and 7) Python or similar scripting language

*Any level of experience or knowledge in the specific skills is acceptable.

Telecommuting is permitted up to 50%/week within normal commuting distance of Fox office in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $184,558.00-203,013.00 annually. This role is also eligible for 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.

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