Company Description

TIDAL is a global music and entertainment streaming platform committed to creating a deeper connection between artists and fans through its library of more than 80 million songs, over 350,000 high quality videos, and available in over 60 countries. In addition, TIDAL offers its subscribers exclusive access to high-profile music and music videos, original content series, podcasts, documentaries, livestream concerts, tickets, merchandise and live experiences. Together, TIDAL and Block will be music-obsessed and artist-focused while we explore new artist tools, listener experiences, and access to financial systems that help artists be more successful.

Job Description

Data is an integral part of TIDAL’s success, and the Business Intelligence team provides the ability for our company to deliver several key initiatives.

We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer who will lead the efforts to deliver data products that improve the decision-making capabilities in shaping the future of TIDAL. You will be responsible for collecting data about TIDAL’s performance, interpreting that data to identify problem areas and areas of improvement, then sharing that information with others. You will collaborate with several stakeholders, including executives across key disciplines such as Marketing, Product, and Finance & Strategy. The ideal candidate will have both hands on and leadership experience in data engineering.

Responsibilities:

You will lead the technical implementation of data projects within our Data Lakehouse, Business Intelligence reporting solution across TIDAL.You will review and verify customer data, direct the dissemination of data to the data lakehouse, and establish policies and protocols for the collection and examination of data. You will also manage and lead medium to large cross functional technology data projects such as introducing a new self-service model for stakeholders to access and use data.

You Will:

Provide technical leadership for TIDAL data projects

• Continuously streamline and improve processes related to the service delivery area.
• Collaborate with the Business, Marketing, Finance, and external stakeholders to identify, establish scope and implement solutions that support the company’s growth, scalability, and overall success.

• Perform stakeholder management to gather and document data warehouse and reporting requirements to ensure development work meets business objectives
• Be an expert in the business’ need for data - understand how it informs their strategy and use that knowledge to deliver new insights.
• Provides services and data support, from data lakehouse to business insights, including the data pipelines and analytics systems 
• Partner with our data partners such as the decentralized analytics teams to help them discover new data solutions, support the development of data products, and promote data best practices.
• Serves the needs of data producers by providing a seamless integration for event data and change data capture. 
• Assists data owners to publish and monitor data streams
• Owns the data lakehouse and manage the unified data storage for all teams
• Ensures that all data is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PII

Qualifications

• 5+ years of computer science, data science, or engineering experience
• Experience in building large scale distributed systems in a product environment
• Able to communicate and influence across disparate groups and levels in the organization
• Knowledge of database and data warehousing cloud technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, AWS RDS, and S3)
• Experience in the Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink etc.)
• Proven experience and knowledge of data warehousing and business intelligence, with emphasis on data architecture, sourcing, reporting and analytics through the entire project lifecycle
• Demonstrable understanding of development processes and agile methodologies
• Strong leadership skills – experience managing a team to drive high-impact work; a proven track record of leading, mentoring, hiring, and scaling Business Intelligence teams

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $138,200 - USD $169,000
Zone B: USD $128,500 - USD $157,100
Zone C: USD $121,700 - USD $148,700
Zone D: USD $110,600 - USD $135,200

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace.

Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.

Learn more about our efforts to promote inclusion and diversity at block.xyz/inclusion

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.