Job Summary: WHO ARE WE? Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com. WHO ARE YOU? Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! THE ROLE The Principal Data Security Architect / Governance will be a pivotal leader in establishing and maturing Live Nation Entertainment's data security program. This role is responsible for defining the strategic vision, architectural frameworks, and comprehensive governance policies that ensure the protection of our data assets across their entire lifecycle. Operating at the intersection of high-level strategy and deep technical guidance, this individual will provide expert leadership in designing secure data solutions, defining standards, influencing adoption of best practices, and driving compliance within our AWS and Databricks-centric environment. WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO + Strategic Vision and Roadmap: Define and champion the multi-year data security strategy and roadmap for Live Nation Entertainment, aligning with organizational goals, regulatory requirements (GDPR, CPRA, SOC 2, ISO 27001), and emerging threats. + Architectural Leadership and Standards Development: Lead the design of robust, secure data architectures for all data platforms (Databricks, SQL Server, AWS S3) and data flows, ensuring security by design. Develop and publish authoritative data security standards that guide secure implementation. + Data-Based Threat Modeling (Primary Lead): Drive the methodology and execution of data-based threat modeling across our data ecosystem, analyzing what data exists where, its ownership, access patterns, encryption states, and retention lifecycle. This is a critical area for identifying major gaps and informing architectural decisions. + Governance and Policy Development: Lead the development, formalization, and continuous improvement of data security policies, standards, and procedures, including data classification frameworks, data ownership models, access control principles (e.g., RBAC, ABAC), and data lifecycle management. + Compliance and Risk Management: Serve as the primary subject matter expert for data security compliance, leading efforts to map controls to regulatory frameworks, conduct data security risk assessments, and support internal and external audits (including interaction with EY for SOX compliance). + Team Leadership and Guidance: Collaborate with the Director to define team roles, responsibilities, and key initiatives. Provide strategic guidance and architectural expertise to Data Security Developers and Analysts, fostering their growth and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. + Technology Evaluation and Guidance: Research, evaluate, and provide architectural guidance on advanced data security technologies and tooling (e.g., DLP, automated data labeling/classification, specialized data system privilege/access governance tools), informing their potential adoption and integration. + Remediation Planning: Define strategic remediation plans for significant security findings, ensuring alignment with architectural principles. + ACLs (Advisory/Audit): Serve as the SME for network and user Access Controls related to the data environment, providing architectural and policy guidance, and acting as the internal audit data collection point of contact. WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; Master's degree preferred. + 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years specifically in data security architecture or governance roles. + Proven experience designing and implementing data security solutions in large-scale cloud environments, particularly AWS. + Strong hands-on understanding of Databricks security architecture, including Unity Catalog, cluster policies, workspace configurations, network security (PrivateLink), and data plane isolation. + Demonstrated experience or strong capability in leading data-based threat modeling exercises. + Expertise in regulatory compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CPRA, SOC 2, ISO 27001. + Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate complex technical strategies and policies to both technical and non-technical audiences. + Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and build consensus. + Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CDPSE, AWS Certified Security). BENEFITS & PERKS Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits: + HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA) + YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days + WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program + FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support + CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment + OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. Live Nation is an equal opportunity employer. It hires and promotes employees based on their experience, talent, and qualifications for the job and does not tolerate discrimination toward employees based on age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas. Live Nation affords equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee consistent with its legal obligations to do so. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant or employee to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants and employees are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek or currently occupy. Any applicant or employee who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact either the hiring manager for the role or a Human Resources representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. HIRING PRACTICESThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms. #LI-EF1 #LIREMOTEUNITEDSTATES ---------- The expected compensation for this position is: $152,000.00 USD - $190,000.00 USD ** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.