Test Data Engineering Manager - Data Quality & Automation

Live Nation Entertainment Inc; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Stock compensation

Family leave

Career development

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Live Nation Core Data Services is seeking a Test Data Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team of QA-minded engineers. You will build scalable automated data testing solutions, including synthetic data generation, test harnesses, and regression frameworks integrated into deployment pipelines.

The role emphasizes data quality, observability, and driving data-validation practices across North America, Europe, and Asia within a Databricks-based platform.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL

Data quality

Test data engineering

Data observability

AI orchestration

JIRA

Leadership

Tools

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-minded engineers. You will build scalable automated data testing solutions, including synthetic data generation, test harnesses, and regression frameworks integrated into deployment pipelines.

The role emphasizes data quality, observability, and driving data-validation practices across North America, Europe, and Asia within a Databricks-based platform.