Data Engineering Manager

WELCOME TO UTOPIA

Music is incredible. It can excite hundreds, and unite thousands. But as an industry, it has been slow, complicated, and disparate. While the tech world has moved into the future, the music industry continues to be shaped by inefficient systems of the past. At Utopia we believe there is a better way. Which is why today we are setting out to transform the entire industry; creating new revenue streams, consolidating the data and decluttering the admin. Unlocking the industry’s full potential by unifying it all in one truly holistic space. Some might call that a Utopia.

Funnily enough, so do we. Welcome to Utopia. Where music lives.

WHAT UTOPIANS DO

We are building a better world for music with innovative big data technology that tracks online music sources and translates them into meaningful music consumption reports for royalty collection. The solution we’re building does not threaten to usurp the role of industry incumbents - it is about bringing transparency in the industry and supporting efficient royalty collection.

WHAT YOUR ROLE WILL BE

You will lead our Data Engineering Team building and continuously improving our data pipeline to process tens of millions of music consumption events per day. You will own the data architecture design and maintenance in all its components. You’ll collaborate with the engineering team to extract the data and make it available for data analysts to work their magic. You’ll be responsible for operational excellence as reliable and scalable data pipelines are the lifeblood of Utopia Music’s platform.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Leading and growing a focused and impactful Data Engineering team
- Collaborating with software engineers, product managers and data analysts to understand data needs and ensure data flows reliably to supported use cases.
- Enhance data expertise and own data quality for your areas of ownership.
- Design, build and launch new data pipelines and models in production.
- Define and manage SLA for all data sets in your areas of ownership.
- Support data analysts and scientists to extract new valuable insights from the data
- Architect and deliver moves towards a more automated data platform.


THE IDEAL SKILLSET

- BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- 10+ years experience in the data warehouse space.
- 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance.
- 10+ years experience working with data technologies like Map Reduce, Google BigQuery or Apache Spark.
- 10+ years experience with programming languages, Python preferred.
- Experience in managing and growing a team and coordinating work based on business priorities.
- Hands on and deep experience with schema design and dimensional data modelling.
- Ability to write efficient SQL statements.
- Ability to analyse data to identify deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data driven insights.


WHAT WE OFFER

- Great atmosphere - we live, love & breathe music & tech!
- Working in an impact oriented team.
- An experienced team to learn from, with experience in multiple startups and big tech companies.
- Benefits depend on location.
- Flexible remote policy so if you may prefer being on your own and working from home - we’re fine with that too.
- We are supporting work permits for employees that have already moved here from countries outside the EU. However, we do not support relocation at the moment.


UTOPIANS

We come from diverse backgrounds and we welcome everyone who identifies with the above to apply. Welcome to Utopia - Where Music Lives!

We’re eager to meet you! :)