Director, Data Engineering

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANYFox CorporationUnder 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 DESCRIPTIONABOUT THE ROLEWe are looking for a Director of Data Engineering to provide technical and people leadership across strategic data initiatives supporting our Advertising Sales organization. In this role, you will lead the development of scalable data solutions that drive Business Intelligence (BI) automation and enable the next generation of agent-to-agent advertising experiences.You will be responsible for building and evolving a common context layer that brings together critical data and business context, creating a trusted foundation for analytics, automation, and AI-powered workflows. You will partner closely with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders to translate complex Ad Sales needs into scalable data capabilities while leading and developing a high-performing engineering team.A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIESLead and grow a high-performing Data Engineering & BI team responsible for building scalable data platforms, pipelines, and services supporting Ad SalesDefine and execute the technical strategy for Ad Sales BI automation, improving the accessibility, consistency, and reliability of business-critical data and insightsArchitect and build a common context layer that unifies data and business context to support analytics, automation, and AI-driven experiencesEnable agent-to-agent experiences by developing trusted, reusable data foundations and context that AI agents and intelligent applications can leveragePartner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Ad Sales stakeholders to identify opportunities to automate workflows and improve data-driven decision-makingEstablish 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 technical direction on complex data engineering challenges while balancing near-term business priorities with long-term platform strategyRecruit, 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 advertising, Ad Sales, advertising technology, or media technologyExperience 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 $179,000.00-228,500.00 annually. 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.View more detail about FOX Benefits.SummaryLocation: Los Angeles, California, USAType: Full time