Director, Global Technology
Sony Music Global3 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical design, implementation, and ongoing operation of the SAMIS global sales reporting data warehouse and data lake.
- Build and maintain ingestion connectors, API services, data marts, aggregate tables, materialized views, schema validation, and data quality frameworks.
- Create coding standards, CI/CD workflows, YAML deployment pipelines, release strategies, and rollback procedures.
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to define KPIs, align upstream and downstream systems, and deliver automated reporting.
- Conduct code walkthroughs, design reviews, refactoring, pair programming, and technical working sessions with architects and engineers.
- Execute end-to-end proof-of-concepts for SAMIS components such as GoldenGate, Data Flow, Autonomous DB, and lakehouse capabilities.
- Debug OCI and Spark infrastructure, tune SQL and pipelines, optimize storage and partitioning, and reduce cloud costs.
- Implement row-level security, encryption key rotation, dynamic data masking, monitoring, alerting, and operational resilience procedures.
Requirements
- Expertise in Python, PySpark, and SQL, including Spark performance tuning and production data engineering.
- Experience with OCI services and the OCI ecosystem, including Autonomous DB, AI Data Platform, Data Integration, Unified Catalog, Analytic Views, ORDS, Data Flow, Object Storage, and OCI Events/Functions.
- Knowledge of lakehouse architecture, including Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion patterns, Iceberg, Delta Uniform, ACID, time travel, schema evolution, compaction, partitioning, and lifecycle management.
- Experience with batch and incremental ingestion, ETL/ELT, Spark batch and streaming, dimensional modeling, and analytical data performance optimization.
- Understanding of RESTful API design, ORDS, OAuth/API keys, authentication, and data integration patterns.
- Experience designing YAML-based CI/CD pipelines and Git branching and release strategies.
- Proven performance and stress-testing experience, including identifying and resolving bottlenecks under load.
- Exposure to Agentic AI Workflows for self-healing pipelines and experience implementing security, monitoring, and operational controls.
Benefits
- Inclusive, collaborative, global community and a modern office environment.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, plus a 401(k) with employer matching.
- Voluntary benefits including identity theft protection, mental health and meditation resources, fertility coverage, caregiver and parental leave, child and elder care, and adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student-loan reimbursement.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
- Winter recess time off.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Sony Music Global
Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded-music company that signs and develops artists, operates labels, and distributes and markets their releases across streaming, download, and physical formats. It earns revenue from music sales and streaming, licensing/sync, and artist services. Headquartered in New York and part of Sony Group, it operates in more than 70 countries, including Germany via sonymusic.de.