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Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.\nJob Summary\nCAA is seeking a Lead Data Engineer with deep expertise in data engineering, data architecture, database development, and data modeling to provide technical leadership within our Product Development data engineering team. This role will drive the design, development, and evolution of scalable data solutions that support CAA’s enterprise applications. The product development team designs and builds software experiences that support CAA’s diverse, global, and high-energy entertainment industry culture of agents, executives, artists, and business partners.\nResponsibilities\nLead the data engineering team across multiple application development initiatives, ensuring data models, database objects, integrations, and pipelines align with enterprise architecture and application standards.\nManage, mentor and provide technical leadership to the Data Engineering team, supporting workload planning, career development, and engineering excellence.\nLead the design, development, and maintenance of SQL Server databases, including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and stored procedure development.\nEstablish and enforce database development standards, naming conventions, coding guidelines, performance standards, and best practices.\nLead document schema design while ensuring appropriate integration patterns between relational and NoSQL data stores.\nPartner closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure data solutions support, application scalability, maintainability, and performance.\nWork with leadership to prioritize work, estimate effort, identify technical risks, and ensure successful delivery of data engineering initiatives.\nLead database code and schema reviews, ensuring high standards for data quality, performance, security, and maintainability across the team.\nLanguages and Frameworks\nExpert level experience with production Microsoft SQL Server, including data modeling, schema design, stored procedure development, query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and performance tuning.\nStrong hands-on experience with MongoDB, including document modeling and integration with relational systems.\nStrong experience designing scalable database architectures for enterprise applications.\nExperience designing data services, as well as working with JSON data structures.\nTools\nExperience implementing automated database deployments and schema migration processes within CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong understanding of Agile software development methodologies and Continuous Delivery practices.\nExperience implementing automated testing, database monitoring, and deployment practices.\nExperience managing projects using a distributed version control system such as Git and GitHub.\nExperience collaborating across cross-functional engineering teams in large scale enterprise software environments.\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.\nFocus\n6-8 years working in Data Engineering with a strong focus on SQL Server.\nMinimum 3+ years leading a technical team.\nWe expect you to have a passion and experience in shipping and maintaining production software products.\nYou must have strong verbal and written skills.\nWe are most interested in candidates who want to work in an environment where attention to detail, problem solving, simplicity, quality, and agility are highly prized.\nEnvironment\nThis role is hybrid, with two days per week working in the office and three days working remotely.\nWe foster a service-oriented, highly collaborative environment where teamwork, care, and helping others succeed are highly valued.\nLocation\nThis role is hybrid, based in our Nashville office.\nCompensation \nThe annual base salary range for this position is as follows:\nNashville, TN - $151,000 - $168,000\nThis position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, wages may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more. \nBenefits\nAt CAA, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits* package for all regular full-time employees: \nBenefits where the company pays 80%-100% of the cost include:\nMedical\nBasic Life and AD&D Insurance \nTelemedicine \nEmployee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text \nPaid Vacation / Holidays \nPaid Sick Time \nPaid Parental Leave and Other Paid Leaves of Absence \nNICU leave \nBereavement resources \nAdoption Benefits \nEducational Assistance \nMental Health Resources \nEmployee Assistance Plan \nEmployees may also elect to participate in voluntary benefits:\nDental, Vision Insurance \n401K Plan \nFlexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care) \nHealth Savings Account \nVoluntary Life and AD&D Insurance \nEmployee Perks:\nCommuter Benefits \nBenefits offered also include other statutory mandated benefits\nFor more information and to submit an application, please apply here:\nCreative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address.The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. 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