Hybrid Senior Data Engineer – Beats & Bytes

at Universal Music Group

• Job title: Senior Data Engineer – Beats & Bytes
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, BigQuery, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Senior Data Engineer developing data systems primarily with Google Cloud Platform at Universal Music. Building relationships across teams and driving digital transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Develop our organization maturity, our department, and the Data Engineering teammates
• Build strong relationships with your team, manager, as well as relevant business stakeholders, mainly our local marketing department
• Design data systems in an international cooperation and at scale
• Develop data systems mainly based on Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and Composer
• Raise the data system operation quality bar, establish standards, and introduce best practices
• Use 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
• Actively contribute to our culture, to Beats & Bytes’ community, and to our ways of working by sharing knowledge, e.g., in the form of training, presentations, or workshops, which you prepare yourself
• Actively member of the Data Community of Practice and maintain a steady exchange with the international IT and Business Analysts

Requirements

• Hold a degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a similar field, or were able to acquire the required knowledge through relevant work experience
• 5-year experience as a Data Engineer and are skilled in Python and SQL, and possess domain knowledge in Marketing
• Equipped with profound knowledge in data governance, data warehousing, and data processing
• Familiar with the following tech stack: GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker
• Worked successfully within a platform team
• 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

Benefits

• 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