Software Developer

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

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.

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