Director, Data Engineering & BI Automation

FOX; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Fox Corporation seeks a Director of Data Engineering to lead a high-performing team building scalable data platforms and BI automation for the Advertising Sales group. You will architect a unified data context and partner with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders to translate complex Ad Sales needs into scalable data capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards for data architecture, governance, and observability, and drive automation to accelerate insights and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or related roles, with 5+ years leading teams.
• Designing scalable enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and services.
• Hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Apache Spark, and distributed processing frameworks.
• Knowledge of data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with data modeling, metadata management, governance, lineage, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a Data Engineering & BI team delivering scalable data platforms and services for Ad Sales.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for Ad Sales BI automation.
• Architect a common context layer unifying data and business context for analytics and AI workflows.
• Develop trusted data foundations enabling AI agents and intelligent apps.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Ad Sales to automate workflows and improve decision-making.
• Establish engineering standards for data architecture, quality, governance, observability, scalability and reliability.
• Drive modernization and automation of data workflows to accelerate insights.
• Recruit, mentor and develop engineering talent.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Cloud architectures

Data modeling

Stakeholder communication

AI/ML awareness

Architecture tradeoffs

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Apache Spark

Airflow

Lakehouse

Job description

Fox Corporation seeks a Director of Data Engineering to lead a high-performing team building scalable data platforms and BI automation for the Advertising Sales group. You will architect a unified data context and partner with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders to translate complex Ad Sales needs into scalable data capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards for data architecture, governance, and observability, and drive automation to accelerate insights and