[Remote] Manager, Test Data Engineering Team

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Live Nation Core Data Services is hiring a Test Data Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team and build scalable, automated data testing and data quality capabilities. The role oversees reusable validation frameworks, synthetic test data, regression testing, data observability, and the adoption of quality standards across engineering teams.


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

  • Passionate and motivated
  • Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit
  • Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed
  • You embody our core values of Keep it Simple, Be Inquisitive, Win Together, and Own It
  • You are passionate and motivated
  • Driven, happy to deal with and remove ambiguity, and have a strong entrepreneurial spirit
  • Versatile, autonomous high performer in multiple disciplines, and specifically in augmenting each discipline with an AI practice
  • You are skilled at building consensus, making data-driven decisions, and delivering world-class development experiences, especially when AI serves as a force multiplier
  • You persuasively advocate for an idea while always staying open-minded and rigorously prioritizing
  • You have a bias towards action
  • Most of all, you love to dig in and build amazing things with your team, always pushing the envelope
  • 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
  • Solid understanding of anomaly detection and large-scale data validation patterns (e.g., hash/Merkle-based validation), and/or major TDM tools for data profiling and sampling
  • Comfortable juggling multiple concurrent projects and setting priorities
  • Experience with JIRA / agile user story and acceptance criteria writing
  • Excellent analytical skills required
  • Track record of success launching test data solutions or BI validation applications
  • Versatile, hands-on mindset with a bias for execution
  • AI orchestration experience a huge plus; ability to automate test data practices such as synthetic data generation, data profiling, and pipeline regression testing
  • Experience with user behavior data will be a leg up
  • Passion for live music and events is a plus
  • Optimism with drive, drive, drive

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
  • Free concert tickets
  • Generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
  • 401(k) program with company match
  • Stock reimbursement program
  • New parent programs including caregiver leave and baby bonuses
  • Fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
  • Career and skill development programs with School of Live
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Student loan repayment
  • Volunteer time off
  • Crowdfunding match
  • Work from home in Washington, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, or Pennsylvania

Company Overview

  • Live Nation Entertainment is a producer, promoter, and seller of live concert tickets for artists and fans. It is a sub-organization of Priority Records. It was founded in 2005, and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is

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  • Live Nation Entertainment has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 23 in 2026, 44 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 34 in 2023, 39 in 2022, 39 in 2021, 49 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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