Umusic
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
New York, New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$122k-$200kDetected 1 day ago
SnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsStakeholder ManagementForecastingLeadershipCollaborationPublic SpeakingDemand Planning
About the role
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Responsibilities
- We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
- We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers delivering enterprise-grade data products, data marts, and AI-ready data assets.
- Partner with Ecommerce, Product, Growth/Marketing, Finance, and Data Science stakeholders to enable AI use cases, feature stores, and model-ready commerce datasets.
- Lead development and implementation of semantic layers that standardize business definitions.
- Ensure enterprise data is structured and documented to support LLMs, knowledge graphs, personalization, forecasting, and downstream AI applications.
- Own platform reliability, including SLAs, monitoring, observability, and incident management for ecommerce analytics and AI data pipelines.
- Lead the implementation and enforcement of data contracts and schema governance to improve stability and usability for AI and analytics consumers.
- Lead adoption of modern data architecture patterns (lakehouse, real-time streaming, batch processing, feature stores, data monitoring, and observability).
- Collaborate with governance teams to ensure data is discoverable, explainable, and compliant, especially for AI use cases.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of data engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role and direct ownership of ecommerce, digital commerce, DTC, retail, or marketplace data domains.
- Deep knowledge of modern data architectures (lakehouse, real-time streaming, batch processing).
- Strong understanding of data modeling, including dimensional modeling, feature engineering, and semantic layer design.
- Experience driving data quality, governance, and observability frameworks critical for AI trust and explainability.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business, ecommerce, analytics, and AI requirements into scalable data engineering solutions.
- Strategic exposure to AdTech and MarTech, with experience in the music/entertainment industry preferred, and the ability to connect audience engagement, marketing technology, and data-driven growth initiatives
- Experience with cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and big data technologies (Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).
- GCP is a strong plus.
Compensation
- $ 121,500 - $200,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Including 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services
- Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants
- Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
- 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of your contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
- 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
- 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
- Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
- Lead the strategic design and delivery of scalable data pipelines and architectures that support commerce analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
Company info
- We are UMG, the Universal Music Group.
- We are the world's leading music company.
- In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note, UMG is not enrolled in E-Verify in California and New York, and cannot support employment of candidates whose employer must enroll in E-Verify, for example candidates on STEM-OPT.
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