Director, Data Engineering

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANYJOB DESCRIPTIONABOUT THE ROLEWe are looking for a Director of Data Engineering to provide technical and leadership across Consumer Experience data initiatives. In this role, you will lead the data engineering teams supporting Fox One, Sports, Entertainment, and News, driving a cohesive strategy that unifies consumer interactions, subscriptions, and digital operations across all Fox properties.You will be responsible for building and evolving a central consumer data foundation that brings together critical engagement, account, and behavioral data, creating a unified ecosystem for analytics and AI-powered consumer experiences. You will partner closely with engineering, product, marketing, and business leaders to translate consumer experience objectives into scalable data capabilities while managing and developing high-performing data engineering leaders and teams.A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIESLead, mentor, and grow data engineering teams and engineering leaders responsible for building scalable data platforms supporting Fox One, Sports, Entertainment, and News brandsDefine and execute an overarching data engineering strategy to unify consumer interactions, subscription lifecycles, and operational workflows across multiple Fox digital propertiesArchitect and establish a centralized consumer data platform that aggregates customer engagement, subscription events, and behavioral data across platformsEnable personalized consumer experiences and cross-property insights by building trusted, high-throughput streaming and batch data pipelinesPartner closely with Product, Analytics, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders to drive data integration, user growth, subscription retention, and seamless user journeysEstablish engineering standards and best practices across data architecture, data quality, governance, observability, scalability, and reliabilityDrive the modernization and automation of data workflows, reducing manual processes and accelerating the delivery of actionable insightsProvide overarching technical vision and architectural guidance to data engineering managers and leads across multiple brand verticalsRecruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and innovationWHAT YOU WILL NEED10+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, data platforms, or related technical roles, including 5+ years leading and developing engineering teamsDeep technical understanding of modern data engineering architectures, with experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms, pipelines, and servicesHands-on knowledge of cloud and modern data technologies such as AWS, Databricks, Apache Spark, and related distributed data processing frameworksStrong understanding of data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures, including approaches for structuring and serving large-scale analytical datasetsExperience with modern data orchestration and transformation frameworks and patterns for building reliable, maintainable, and reusable data pipelinesStrong understanding of data modeling, data contracts, metadata management, lineage, governance, data quality, and observabilityExperience designing data platforms that support BI, analytics, automation, machine learning, and AI-powered applicationsUnderstanding of how enterprise data, metadata, semantic models, and contextual information can be structured and exposed to support AI agents and agentic workflowsExperience establishing engineering standards around scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization across cloud-based data environmentsStrong knowledge of software engineering principles, APIs, distributed systems, and integration patterns relevant to modern data platformsProven ability to evaluate emerging technologies, make architectural tradeoffs, and set a technical roadmap that balances immediate business needs with long-term platform strategyDemonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicate architecture, technical decisions, and tradeoffs to both technical and business stakeholdersStrong people leadership skills with experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talentNICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKERExperience working in consumer digital media, direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming services, subscription platforms, or digital publishingExperience building data foundations or platforms that support generative AI, agentic AI, or agent-to-agent workflows#Ll-CC1#Ll-HybridLearn more about Fox Tech at #foxtechWe 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 $179,000.00-209,000.00 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.View more detail about FOX Benefits.SummaryLocation: Los Angeles, California, USAType: Full time