Data Engineer

Music is Universal

Its the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the worlds leading music company. From A&R to finance legal to digital sales to marketing Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender race disability sexual orientation religion belief age marital status background pregnancy or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism dyslexia ADHD and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition please email

Department Description

With a global footprint the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Teamdesignsdevelops delivers andmaintainsseveraltechnical solutions to calculate royaltyaccountingina timelyandaccuratemanner to our valued artists.

Werealso providing them with extensive and detailed visibility of their earnings from various sources of digital income. The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions support best practices and introduce new processes forbetterroyalty flow.

The Role

The DataEngineerwill work closely with business stakeholders product managers and engineering teams to deliver data-driven insights& automationthat support the Royalty and Copyright business. The roleis responsible foranalyzingdataidentifyingtrends producing reportingor automated processes/ETLsolutions supporting data quality initiatives and translating business requirements into actionable insights.

The successful candidate will help improve business decision-making throughaccuratereporting analytics and continuous process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build andmaintainscalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.

• Develop and optimise data integration solutions between on-premises and cloud platforms.

• Ensure the quality reliability and integrity of enterprise data.

• Build andmaintaindata warehouses data lakes and semantic data models.

• Automate manual data processes to improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead.

• Implement data governance security and compliance standards across data platforms.

• Troubleshoot and resolve data quality performance and integration issues.

• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into reportingor automatedsolutions.

• Communicate analytical findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Identifyopportunities to automate reporting processes and improve operational efficiency.

Skills and Experience

Must Have

• Strong SQL skills and experience querying large datasets.

• Experience with Python R or other analytical programming languages.

• Experience with reporting andvisualizationtools such as Power BI Tableau or Looker.

• Experience development ETL/ELT solutions

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with data validation reconciliation and quality assurance processes.

• Ability to gather document andanalyzebusiness requirements.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.

• Experience working with relational databases data warehouses and reporting platforms.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of cloud data platforms such as AWSAzureor Google Cloud.

• Knowledge of royalty and copyright processes.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

• Music industry business knowledge.

Key Behavioral/Personality Traits

You will have a strongtrack recordof turning data into meaningful business insights and communicating complex findings clearly to stakeholders. You will be proactive in your approachleveraginganalytical and problem-solving skills to investigate issuesidentifyopportunities and support business improvements. Attention to detail curiosity collaboration critical thinking and persistence will be essential to success.

Just So You Know

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholders specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent definitive and exhaustive statement.

Job Category:

Technology

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1