Global Data Quality Engineering Manager

Live Nation Entertainment Inc; Washington; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental

Free concert tickets

Paid time off

401(k) with match

Stock reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Caregiver leave

Employee ticket program

Job summary

Live Nation Core Data Services is seeking a Test Data Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team of QA-background engineers into an engineering-driven function. This role focuses on building scalable, automated data testing solutions, including synthetic data generation, test harnesses, and regression frameworks integrated into deployment pipelines.

Partner with internal stakeholders to define data validation requirements and establish reusable testing frameworks across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Data Engineering, Test Data Engineering, or related fields.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Strong experience with Databricks, Spark, distributed data systems, Python and SQL.
• Experience building automated validation or data quality frameworks.
• Hands-on with data observability or validation tools (e.g., Great Expectations, Deequ, Soda).
• Familiarity with streaming architectures and real-time validation.
• AI orchestration experience a huge plus; automate test data practices.

Responsibilities

• Data Quality Platform Engineering: Design and build reusable data quality frameworks integrated into Databricks pipelines.
• Develop standardized validation libraries (schema checks, freshness, volume, anomaly detection).
• Define and enforce data quality standards and “Definition of Done” across pipelines.
• Test Data Engineering: Build scalable solutions for synthetic data generation and masking.
• Develop replay frameworks for validating pipeline changes against production scenarios.
• Create automated regression testing harnesses for batch and streaming pipelines.
• Data Observability & Reliability: Establish monitoring, alerting, and SLA/SLO frameworks for data pipelines.
• Build tools to measure and track data quality, pipeline health, and reliability metrics.
• Enable proactive detection of data issues in production environments.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Lead and grow a team of data quality engineers and test data engineers.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams to embed quality practices.
• Drive adoption of frameworks and standards across global engineering pods.
• Strategy & Execution: Define and execute a long-term roadmap for enterprise data quality.
• Prioritize initiatives across multiple stakeholders and global teams.
• Eliminate manual validation processes through automation and engineering best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

Test data engineering

Leadership

Databricks

Python/SQL

Data observability

AI orchestration

JIRA / Agile

Cross-time-zone

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL

Great Expectations

Deequ

Soda

Job description

Live Nation Core Data Services is seeking a Test Data Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team of QA-background engineers into an engineering-driven function. This role focuses on building scalable, automated data testing solutions, including synthetic data generation, test harnesses, and regression frameworks integrated into deployment pipelines.

Partner with internal stakeholders to define data validation requirements and establish reusable testing frameworks across the