Data Engineering Manager

Who We Are:

Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events, and experiences. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation through entertainment agency WME; sports operations and advisory, event management, media production and distribution, and brand licensing through IMG; live event experiences and hospitality through On Location; full-service marketing through global cultural marketing agency 160over90; and sports data and technology through IMG ARENA and OpenBet. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE.

Position Overview

• Building and maintaining a cloud-forward, highly scalable data platform for use by our data scientists and analysts for training and serving state-of-the-art machine learning models and doing ad-hoc analysis.
• Integrating with internal and external applications via bi-directional data pipelines and APIs to ingest data into our data warehouse and send data back out to various providers including ESPs, internal applications, and adtech platforms.
• Managing the underlying infrastructure for our data applications. We use infrastructure-as-code for most of our cloud resources and are a platform-first team.
• Advancing frameworks and championing new technologies to enable our business users to have more direct means to access and use data to drive decision-making.

Expectations

Qualifications

• Experiencing leading data or data-centric software engineering groups with an emphasis on data
• 7+ years of experience as a data engineer
• 2+ years of people management experience serving as either an engineering manager or staff+ role where you were directly responsible for managing others
• Experience with modern cloud-native data technologies and tools (e.g., AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, Prefect, Spark)
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Excellent at communicating context (both written and verbal), giving and receiving feedback, and fostering new ideas through in-depth conversation
• Strategic and analytic thinking skills - you should be able to think big picture, especially as it pertains to solutioning, road mapping, and prioritization

• 2+ years of operating a large-scale Snowflake data warehouse, including the use of ML tools such as Snowpark and Snowpark Container Services
• 3+ years of experience building and operating container-based systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes) using infrastructure-as-code (i.e. Terraform)
• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world’s diverse voices.  

Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the range shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.  Endeavor strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Range Minimum:

$165,000 annually

Hiring Range Maximum:

$220,000 annually