Data Architect
Who we are:
Vivid Seats is the fastest-growing online marketplace for sports and concert tickets. We were recently listed as one of the city’s fastest growing internet companies by Crain’s Chicago Business and named one of the city’s top digital employers by BuiltInChicago.org! Our mission is to help fans attend all their favorite live events with the highest satisfaction and savings in the industry.
We need great people to scale our technology in order to keep pace. We’ve got everything you’d expect from a startup: challenging work, a relaxed environment, and snacks in the fridge coupled with the great benefits, stability, and resources of a company with over 10 years of profitable growth.
Job Description:
As a Data Architect, you will help set our data architecture strategy, design and implement logical and physical data models, work with the business to implement challenging reports, and be the resident expert in data sources, structure, cleanliness, and SQL optimization. We’re a fast moving company, making this an extremely challenging role – if that sounds like fun to you, we’d love to chat.
What we’re looking for:
- 10+ years of data architecture experience, preferably in a fast-paced web environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading transformational data architecture projects
- Someone not afraid to “get their hands dirty” and lead by example
- Expert in SQL (exp MySQL), data modeling, and query optimization
- Comfortable with OLTP, OLAP, and all the processes in between
- Experience with NoSQL and Search Indexes, and technologies enabling analysis of Big Data
- Familiarity with Agile BI
- Passion for teaching and learning from others
- Painstaking attention to detail, testing and data quality
- Dedicated to continuous improvement of yourself, team, process, and our customer experience
Vivid Seats offers competitive compensation levels, substantial individual and team-based bonus opportunities, aggressive promotion timelines, and a variety of workplace perks. Specifically, staff has access to discounted event tickets, frequent in-office catered meals, monthly happy hours, team outings, discounted gym memberships, subsidized healthy meal and snack programs, and summer sports leagues. Standard benefits are also offered such as medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, and transit plan discounts.
Vivid Seats is an equal opportunity employer. Vivid Seats prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.