Data Governance Analyst

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network.  Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors.  Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally.  Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists.  These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE TEAM

The Core Data Services org serves primarily internal customers comprised of business units and analytics teams across the entire Live Nation enterprise. Within Core Data Services, our Governance Team is responsible for establishing data standards and maintaining quality definitions, catalogs, and best practices with all those customers to help us create the data solutions required to power each team or initiative to serve artists, our fans, and the business.

THE ROLE

This role is on the Governance Team and will help establish a scalable Governance practice including building standards, training other orgs interacting with company data, and directly writing and editing data definitions, table comments, knowledge base articles, etc. In this role, you will drive strategic thinking and cross-functional alignment around data-driven approaches to optimize data discoverability and management. You will also directly explore data across our business and provide analyses. In so doing, you will be a key partner with cross-functional stakeholders to better understand our users and internal customers to create a scalable Governance process.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Ensure every line of business and product team knows how to contribute to the shared Enterprise Data Model
• Provide a framework and delivery of Data Governance across data domains
• Stay abreast of technology and practice trends, create proof of concepts, and lead adoption for data discovery
• Understand the live entertainment landscape and Live Nation’s business processes, to help enable data discovery for all stakeholders
• Develop, validate and drive implementation of the organization’s Data Standards in collaboration with Data Producers and Data Consumers.
• Develop the operationalization of Data Governance capabilities and target operating model to meet the objectives set out in the company’s Data Strategy
• Continuously work multi-functionally across the business to evaluate data governance-related processes to find opportunities for improvement
• Promote data-driven culture and good data practices within an organization
• Act as a primary contributor for the Metadata repositories as well as manage the health and wellbeing of the Metadata repositories
• Write and maintain documentation including Knowledge Base articles on our data domains
• Explore company data identifying potential duplication, quality issues, or modeling/sharing opportunities
• Drive continuous improvements to our products, tools, and processes by sharing learnings, constructive feedback, and input with internal technical and analytics teams
• Help with standardization of naming of data elements across data domains
• Actively look for best industry practices through building relationships within the industry, attending webinars, training, conferences.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, MIS, Library Science, Computer Science, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in Data Analysis, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Modeling, & Data Quality Management
• Strong proficiency in SQL with the ability to effectively navigate data warehouses
• Background in data mining, efficient in navigating complex data warehouses preferred
• Proven proficiency within a BI platform (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, Oracle BI, Tableau) preferred
• Experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog a huge plus
• ETL and streaming data orchestration experience a plus
• Practical experience with Privacy laws such as CCPA, GDPR and Privacy Compliance implementation
• Detail oriented with strong time management and organizational skills
• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously while handling shifting priorities
• Team-oriented, collaborative worker while still being able to work independently
• Experience working in organizations with geographically dispersed teams and complex technical environments
• Must have understanding of the end-to-end data supply chain from production to consumption.
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing; effective live presentations and trainings are a must
• Experience training teams or rolling out new programs across multiple business units is preferred

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking will evolve based upon updated regulations and factors related to COVID-19. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test within [24] hours of entering an office.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion.  You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work.  We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife.  As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with.  It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. 

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant  consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.  Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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