Data Architect - London, N1C 4AG

Data Architect - London, N1C 4AG, United Kingdom

Department Description

With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers and maintains a number of technical solutions to calculate royalty accountings in a timely and accurate manner to our valued artists. We’re also providing them with an extent and detailed visibility of these earning from various sources of digital incomes.

The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions as well as supporting best practices and new processes for a better royalty flow.

The Role

The Data Architect will lead the design and evolution of our Royalties and Copyright data models and processes. This role is responsible for defining and driving the data architectural strategy, ensuring the scalability and performance of our systems. As a senior technical leader, you will collaborate with executives, engineering teams, and stakeholders to deliver solutions that align with business goals and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Be innovative

• Developing data management projects which will move UMG closer to its future goals.

• Designing a data infrastructure that supports complex data analytics services.

• Oversee system performance, reliability and compliance considerations.

• Form up the solution and ensure that it is delivered to the development team in an appropriate form.

Be a leader

• Providing technical leadership and direction for the Royalty data teams.

• Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers across the organization.

• Build positive relationships with business stakeholders and development teams.

• Document and agree requirements to form a strategic roadmap.

• Orchestrate development by leading a data analyst team.

• Establish and enforce data architectural guidelines.

• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.

• Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and innovation across our landscape.

Be Collaborative

• Collaborate with business units to gather and analyse requirements and translate them into functional and technical solutions.

Skills and Experience required

Must have

• A proven track record to use data modelling techniques such as entity-relationship diagrams, dimensional modelling, and schema design to represent data structures and relationships in a logical and conceptual way.

• Knowledge of database management systems like SQL, NoSQL, or cloud-based databases to store, query, and manipulate data in a structured and consistent way.

• Experience in large data migration project where data is moved, transformed and consolidated from different sources and formats.

• Ability to set standards for data quality tools usage such as data profiling, data cleansing, data validation, and data auditing which will be essential to ensure data is accurate, complete, consistent, and relevant.

• Ability to implement data governance tools like data catalogs, dictionaries, lineages, and policies required to define and enforce the rules for managing the data lifecycle and usage.

• Self-starter, business focussed leader with strong initiative

• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels

Nice to have

• Music industry business knowledge is highly desirable.