About the Role
The Data Engineer will collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to deliver data-driven insights and automation supporting the Royalty and Copyright business. This role involves analyzing data, identifying trends, producing reports, developing automated processes/ETL solutions, supporting data quality, and translating business requirements into actionable insights to improve business decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Develop and optimize data integration solutions between on-premises and cloud platforms.
- Ensure the quality, reliability, and integrity of enterprise data.
- Build and maintain data 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 reporting or automated solutions.
- Communicate analytical findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Identify opportunities to automate reporting processes and improve operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Strong SQL skills and experience querying large datasets.
- Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages.
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
- Experience developing ETL/ELT solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance processes.
- Ability to gather, document, and analyze business 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.
- Knowledge of cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of royalty and copyright processes.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Music industry business knowledge.
- A strong track record of turning data into meaningful business insights and communicating complex findings clearly to stakeholders.
- Proactive approach, leveraging analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate issues, identify opportunities, and support business improvements.
- Attention to detail, curiosity, collaboration, critical thinking, and persistence are essential.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Looker
- ETL/ELT
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lakes
- Semantic Data Models
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Compliance
- Cloud Data Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Agile Methodologies
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Attention to Detail
About the Company
- Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company.
- The Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers, and maintains technical solutions to calculate royalty accounting accurately and timely for artists.
- The team provides artists with detailed visibility of their earnings from various digital income sources.
- The team collaborates internationally to deliver innovative solutions, support best practices, and introduce new processes for better royalty flow.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 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 UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
