Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

 

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

 

As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

 

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.  We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

 

About the role:

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help build out our Data team and help drive the establishment of data-driven culture from the ground up. This role reports to our Director of Data Platform and Integration, and will also partner with our Principal Data Engineer overseeing platform, integration, analytics, and data science. As a senior individual contributor role, you’ll be responsible both for mentorship and technical leadership of other engineers within the team, as well as defining, implementing, and executing against our engineering strategy - creating processes, and resolving ambiguity at the highest levels, working with senior engineering peers and business leadership, to match a defined business strategy with technical plans and implementation. You will also be expected to be highly autonomous, biased-to-action, able to build relationships across engineering teams, and experienced with reducing ambiguity and creating clarity for others on the team.

Responsibilities include:

·       Define cross-team data architecture, with a focus on enabling core/foundational business intelligence and data science use cases

·       Provide leadership and technical expertise within the Data Platform and Integration teams.  Be a mentor and role model for other engineers within the Data organization. 

·       Remain current on technology and trends in data engineering, and the modern data and analytics stack

·       Set a high standard for engineering excellence through example

·       Contribute to hiring and training other engineering team members

·       Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to gather and present testing metrics and activities.

Skills that are important to us:

·       Strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, in a continuous delivery environment

·       Demonstrated ability to partner closely with product managers, analysts, data scientists, peer engineering teams, and more

·       Ability to advise and earn trust of partners and engineering leadership

·       Experience in large-scale cloud databases

·       Experience in Experimentation, A/B Testing, Optimization

·       Ability to deliver service and data integrations between different teams and 3rd parties

·       Experience with multiple (not necessarily all) aspects of the modern data and analytics tech stack and concepts (i.e. data warehousing, data lake, data orchestration, analytics engineering, machine learning engineering, real-time stream processing or pub/sub, etc.)

·       Fluent in one or more common languages used by data practitioners (e.g. Python, Java, Spark, Flink, R, SQL, etc.), to build systems and architecture (not just individual pipelines)

·       Positive and flexible attitude to work in a fast-paced environment and a willingness to embrace new initiatives, in a well-capitalized pre-launch startup-within-an-established company

·       Strong communication skills with the ability to represent complex topics in a succinct way

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Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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