Location: Remote - USA
Employment Type: Salaried
Team: Architecture
Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem. Come help us build a company the world has never seen before! We are first and foremost a technology company. We build innovative fan experiences through highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded collaboration. We are passionate about evaluating and finding the right tech for the jobs at hand, and we get excited about building solutions for modern challenges.
At Fanatics, we firmly believe in a data driven experience for our sports fans! The Data Architecture team’s charter is to continually develop and enhance the vision for Fanatics’ portfolio of data platforms and frameworks, define strategies for achieving that vision and collaborate with other teams to adopt and materialize that vision.
Job Responsibilities
Serve as a lead architect for strategic data initiatives, collaborate effectively with other architects, product managers and technology teams to deliver innovative, impactful, scalable and robust platforms, services and frameworks.
Identify opportunities to adopt methodologies which improve our agility and quality in delivery of large-scale analytics solutions.
Hands on contribution to the vision and development of data platforms, infrastructure and tools: data cataloging and governance, MPP compute engines and databases, streaming and batch pipelines, reporting and visualizations, workload automation, and services and frameworks which facilitate data access, and deep analytics.
Evaluate emerging data technologies and frameworks, identify and clearly describe the benefits of adopting them and collaborate with product teams to develop a roadmap for adoption.
Democratize standards and best practices for access and utilization of data at Fanatics.
Job Requirements
Experience with building large scale Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence platforms.
Hands-on experience with developing and managing distributed systems in the cloud using open-source technologies
Experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud platforms.
Knowledge of common design patterns, models and architecture used in Big Data processing.
Strong grasp on fundamental data structures and algorithms.
Experience in developing distributed systems leveraging OO and functional programming languages
Proficiency in any 2 of the following languages: Scala, Java, Python, Go
Hands-on experience in development in the Hadoop ecosystem, preferably Spark.
Experience with and deep understanding of distributed databases such as: Redshift, Snowflake, Vertica, Teradata, etc.
Knowledge and experience in designing and developing RESTful services.
Experience in partnering with stakeholders, product managers, architects, engineers in building and managing data environments that are complex, enterprise wide, multi-tenant, and host large volume of data.
Great team player with excellent written & verbal communication skills
Masters degree preferred with 7+ years of applicable experience or Bachelors degree preferred with 10+ years of applicable experience in Computer Science or a related field.
Exposure to messaging platforms such as Kafka and Apache Pulsar is preferred.
Experience with Linux/Unix system administration preferred.
Things We Care About
· Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.
· Diversity and Inclusion
· Our Company Culture and Values
· Providing outstanding Company Perks and Benefits
Company Overview
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.
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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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