About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and driven Senior Data Engineering Manager - Enterprise Data Products within the Global Data & Analytics team. You are passionate about leading teams that deliver scalable, reliable, and AI-ready data platforms that power enterprise decision-making, advanced analytics, and ecommerce growth. You understand that modern data platforms must not only support reporting, but also enable machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications through high-quality, well-governed, semantically consistent enterprise data. In this role, you will lead teams of data engineers responsible for delivering domain-specific data products, semantic layers, and data marts that serve as trusted, AI-ready sources of truth across the organization, while shaping how data is structured, governed, and exposed to support AI/ML use cases, feature engineering, and semantic consistency across tools and applications.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers delivering enterprise-grade data products, data marts, and AI-ready data assets.
- Lead the strategic design and delivery of scalable data pipelines and architectures that support commerce analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
- Partner with Ecommerce, Product, Growth/Marketing, Finance, and Data Science stakeholders to enable AI use cases, feature stores, and model-ready commerce datasets.
- Champion engineering best practices for AI-ready data foundations, including data quality, completeness, consistency, lineage, customer identity resolution, and trusted order/product/customer domains.
- 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).
- Guide platform optimization for performance, scalability, freshness, and cost while supporting high-volume ecommerce data and compute-intensive AI workloads.
- Collaborate with governance teams to ensure data is discoverable, explainable, and compliant, especially for AI use cases.
- Mentor and develop engineering talent, fostering expertise in data engineering and AI data readiness principles.
Requirements
- 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.
- Proven leadership experience delivering AI-ready data platforms and ML/AI workflows, including feature stores, training datasets, model data pipelines, personalization, demand forecasting, churn/retention, attribution, and other generative AI initiatives.
- 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.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Awareness of data governance and privacy principles, including customer data privacy, is preferred.
- Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced environment, balancing priorities while maintaining quality, stakeholder alignment, and delivery discipline.
- Ability to lead the creation of impactful executive presentations that communicate strategy, tradeoffs, roadmap decisions, and measurable business outcomes.
Skills
- Data Engineering
- AI-ready data platforms
- Machine Learning
- Generative AI
- Data Pipelines
- Data Architectures
- Commerce Analytics
- Feature Stores
- Data Quality
- Data Governance
- Data Lineage
- Customer Identity Resolution
- Semantic Layers
- LLMs
- Knowledge Graphs
- Personalization
- Forecasting
- Data Contracts
- Schema Governance
- Lakehouse
- Real-time Streaming
- Batch Processing
- Data Monitoring
- Observability
- Performance Optimization
- Scalability
- Data Discoverability
- Data Explainability
- Cloud Ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Big Data Technologies (Spark, Snowflake, Databricks)
- AdTech
- MarTech
- Audience Engagement
- Marketing Technology
- Data-driven Growth
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Data Privacy
- Executive Presentations
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years of data engineering experience
- 3+ years in a leadership role
Salary/Compensations
- $121,500 - $200,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 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
- 2-weeks paid Winter Break
- 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
- Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
- Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- Join an entrepreneurial, global organization where authenticity, boldness, creativity, connection, drive, and insight aren’t just values—they’re how we work every day.
Equal Opportunity
- Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer
- We are an E-Verify employer in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.
- 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.
