(Senior) Data Engineer (all genders)

Universal Music is the market leader in the music business. The world’s most famous and most successful record labels belong to us. We’ve been writing music history for over 100 years representing legendary musicians across all genres. Our accomplishments are driven by our love for music, extraordinary artists, and our ambitious team.

Beats & Bytes (B3S) is UMG’s Central European Tech Hub, and Data Engineering team is the platform team driving the digital transformation. What do we stand for? First, creating long-term value by solving real customer problems. Second, change is desirable. We call it growth. Third, diversity is key to amplifying awareness and curiosity. 

Here’s your chance to join! Effective immediately, we’re looking for a (Senior) Data Engineer (all genders) to become part of our Data Engineering team at our Headquarters in Berlin. It will be a permanent full-time position.

Your gig:

• Your main responsibility is to develop our organization maturity, our department, and the Data Engineering teammates 
• You work to build strong relationships with your team, manager, as well as relevant business stakeholders, mainly our local marketing department
• You design data systems in an international cooperation and at scale
• You develop data systems mainly based on Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and Composer
• You raise the data system operation quality bar, establish standards, and introduce best practices
• You use your expertise to think ahead, understand needs, priorities and urgencies as well as potential challenges to manage expectations of your team and stakeholders and to deliver accordingly
• You are an active contributor to our culture, to Beats & Bytes’ community, and to our ways of working by sharing your knowledge, e.g., in the form of training, presentations, or workshops, which you prepare yourself
• You are an active member of the Data Community of Practice and maintain a steady exchange with the international IT and Business Analysts

We are keen to jam with you if you:

• Hold a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a similar field, or were able to acquire the required knowledge through relevant work experience
• You have 4-year experience as a Data Engineer and are skilled in Python and SQL, and possess domain knowledge in Marketing
• You are equipped with profound knowledge in data governance, data warehousing, and data processing
• You are familiar with the following tech stack: Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, BigQuery cloud data warehouse, Composer
• You’ve already worked successfully within a platform team
• You feel confident and natural reading, writing, and speaking English and can communicate efficiently in tech as well as business-related contexts; German skills are a plus but the willingness is to learn the language is a must

Your personality matters:

• You are enthusiastic about the music industry and eager to actively contribute to building an inspiring ecosystem for artists, creatives and fans
• You've been described as reliable and well-organized which allows you to stay focused, structured and calm - even in stressful situations
• Your thinking is guided by strategy, analysis, and innovation which enables you to connect the dots quickly and logically
• You’ve been praised for your excellent abilities as a change-maker, listener, and communicator
• You are passionate about tech and enjoy technically oriented tasks, especially in the context of Pair / Mob Programming
• You embrace a dynamic environment and easily adapt to changing circumstances
• You thrive working in interdisciplinary teams and you’d choose teamwork over heroism anytime; you maintain open communication with your colleagues and have excellent people skills

Our values, our compass, our culture:

• Creativity – Home to Artists, Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
• Connection – We are ONE team.
• Passion – Music is our first love.
• Responsibility – It’s up to us.
• Diversity – Music is universal.
• Factuition – Guided by head AND heart.

Our benefits – because you’re important to us:

• Feel the music! – Thanks to a concert ticket budget, streaming service vouchers, employee discounts on physical music and merchandise products as well as various internal events
• Enjoy flexibility! – Thanks to our hybrid work model you benefit from high flexibility and room for collaboration and interactions in our headquarter in Berlin; benefit from up to 10 mobile working days a month
• Time to relax! – You are more than your job, benefit from 30 vacation days as well as up to 10.5 additional days off per year
• Always on track! - Keep moving sustainably through the capital thanks to special rates for BVG tickets (public transport) and our job bike leasing offer
• Develop yourself! - We offer professional development through various workshops and courses
• Self-care matters! – We promote and support mental health with our Employee Assistance Program for all challenges in life (professional and private); we offer confidential counseling and coaching through a third-party provider

#joinuniversalmusic 
We look forward to receiving your application via our online application form! Please upload your documents (letter of motivation / cover letter, CV, references) as files and state your earliest starting date as well as salary expectations.

MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL! 
As a large and globally operating company, Universal Music promotes diversity and opposes discrimination. We aspire to reflect the diversity represented by our artists through their music and individuality in our teams. We pledge ourselves to be an equal opportunity employer and enable individuals to express themselves – regardless of age, sex, gender, appearance, origin, faith, disabilities, or sexual orientation.

If you are unsure about submitting an application, because you have a disability or specific needs, for example, or you do not fulfil all of the requirements, we would like to encourage you to try it nonetheless!
#YOUatUMG