Director of Data Engineering - Unified Consumer Platform

Fox Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Fox Corporation seeks a Director of Data Engineering to lead data initiatives across Fox One, Sports, Entertainment, and News. You will build a central consumer data foundation enabling unified analytics and AI-powered experiences, while mentoring leaders and shaping the data platform roadmap.

You will partner with product, marketing, and business leaders to deliver high-quality data pipelines, governance, and scalable solutions across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• 5+ years leading and developing engineering teams.
• Experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines.
• Knowledge of data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and modern data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow data engineering teams and leaders across Fox brands.
• Define and execute a unified data engineering strategy for consumer interactions and subscriptions.
• Architect a centralized consumer data platform aggregating engagement, subscriptions, and behavioral data.
• Build high-throughput streaming and batch data pipelines for personalized experiences.
• Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Marketing, and Operations to drive data integration and user growth.
• Establish engineering standards, governance, observability, and reliability across data platforms.
• Drive modernization and automation of data workflows to accelerate insights delivery.
• Provide technical vision and guidance to managers and leads across brand verticals.
• Recruit and develop engineering talent and foster a culture of excellence and accountability.

Skills

Data engineering

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Architecture & roadmap

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Apache Spark

Job description

Fox Corporation seeks a Director of Data Engineering to lead data initiatives across Fox One, Sports, Entertainment, and News. You will build a central consumer data foundation enabling unified analytics and AI-powered experiences, while mentoring leaders and shaping the data platform roadmap.

You will partner with product, marketing, and business leaders to deliver high-quality data pipelines, governance, and scalable solutions across cloud environments.