Data Architect - Data Services - Live Nation Entertainment : Job Details

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

THE TEAM

Core Data Services org is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives across the entire Live Nation enterprise. We are at the beginning of our journey to build an enterprise data platform capable of being the true backbone for data needs across the organization. Our mission is to make reliable data available and enable value creation by the data community of engineers, analysts and decision makers. Core Data Services org consists of Product and Engineering teams overseeing Architecture, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence Engineering and Operations.

THE ROLE

As a Data Architect within the Core Data Services team, you will be responsible for the comprehensive solution and architecture of our Enterprise Data platform. We are seeking an experienced professional with a track record of building solutions to large-scale systems at the enterprise level. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing end-to-end data solutions that empower our organization to harness the full potential of data. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders, to drive innovation and ensure the seamless integration of data and analytics within our ecosystem.

Within this role, you will encounter a multitude of opportunities to effect meaningful change across various dimensions, from technological enhancements and streamlined processes to the development and mentorship of talented individuals. Your contributions will have a significant impact on our business and technology team, reaffirming our commitment to excellence.

This role is about driving transformation – defining how data is modeled, governed, and delivered in a global, high-volume environment. If you're excited to influence architecture decisions from day one, thrive in ambiguity, and want to leave a lasting mark on how data is done at scale, this role is for you.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO:

Architecture & Strategy

• Design and evolve our Databricks Lakehouse architecture with a focus on scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability in response to changing requirements and to address various data needs across the business.
• Define and implement a tiered data ecosystem with maturity layers to transform data systematically while ensuring each layer services a specific purpose from raw data ingestion to refined and analytics-ready data.
• Outline the vision, requirements, and lead development of the Data Lakehouse by aligning technical architecture with business needs and long-term vision.
• Continuously evaluate and introduce new patterns, tools, or practices to make our data platform more scalable, resilient and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.

Modeling, Standards & Governance

• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to serve as the backbone of integrated, reusable and scalable data to support the current and future development of data strategies
• Establish and enforce standards for metadata, lineage, and data quality across the ecosystem.
• Define patterns and playbooks that guide engineering teams in building consistent, future-proof pipelines.
• Enhance data discoverability by working closely with data analysts and business stakeholders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, and data quality standards through automation.
• Develop and implement strategies for seamlessly integrating data from diverse sources across different systems and platforms, including real-time and batch processing.

Delivery & Enablement

• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and business teams to design solutions that are accessible, usable, and trustworthy.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to engineering staff.
• Lead workshops and training to raise data literacy and promote best practices.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 10+ years of tech industry experience and have 5+ years experience in architecting and implementing big data strategies
• 5+ years expertise with and cloud-based data platforms (Databricks, AWS, Snowflake, Spark)
• Deep knowledge of data modeling using Erwin or similar tooling (3NF, dimensional/star schema), medallion architectures, ETL processes, data integration, and Data Warehousing concepts
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, and NoSQL databases
• Experience in architecting data pipelines and solutions for streaming and batch integrations using tools/frameworks like dbt, Talend, Azure Data Factory, Spark, Spark Streaming, etc.
• Experience with confluent Kafka real-time data processing and API platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, and compliance.
• Experience optimizing for cost and performance at scale (e.g., caching, partitioning strategies)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with technical and non-technical teams to be able to translate architecture into business value

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own' through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
• YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program
• FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
• CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with.

Live Nation is an equal opportunity employer. It hires and promotes employees based on their experience, talent, and qualifications for the job and does not tolerate discrimination toward employees based on age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

Live Nation affords equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee consistent with its legal obligations to do so. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant or employee to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants and employees are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek or currently occupy. Any applicant or employee who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact either the hiring manager for the role or a Human Resources representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.

HIRING PRACTICESThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

The expected compensation for this position is: $144,000.00 USD - $180,000.00 USD - Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.