Sr. Data Engineer & Developer, Music Analytics

Columbia Records is seeking a Senior Data Engineer, Music Analytics to work under the label’s Insights & Analytics team. You will be responsible for establishing, building, and maintaining all data pipelines and internal data interfaces that power Columbia’s analytics and A&R Research processes. This role is vital to Columbia’s ability to find, analyze, and make recommendations on new talent signings and music marketing opportunities. This is a unique opportunity to apply web development and database management skills to support A&R and marketing decisions that have a significant impact throughout the label.

• Build and maintain internal web interfaces and databases that help the team collect and evaluate data related to new music releases and unsigned artists.
• Discover and implement new data pipelines across the digital music-related landscape. Manage existing data pipelines and add additional sources of music data as needed.
• Create new company-wide and department-wide reports, and enhance existing reports, to present music data in an understandable and thoughtful way.
• Collaborate with multiple departments, including A&R, to efficiently sort through millions of data points to identify interesting trends and patterns.

• You have excellent Python skills and relational database skills (3-5 years experience).
• You are proficient with version control tools and Python web frameworks such as Django.
• A detail-oriented professional that can approach data problems thoughtfully to consider and solve for issues of scaling and accuracy across many disparate data sources.
• An excellent communicator who can both collaborate with a team and work independently.
• A self-starter who can identify and approach technical needs and issues, and can quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles, and solutions.

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to fuel the creative journey.
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork.
• Our Hybrid with Flexibility approach combines the flexibility of remote working with the benefits of in-person collaboration whenever we need to come together to do our best work. Managers will partner with their teams and employees to establish work arrangements that meet the business, team, and individual needs.
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching.
• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition and student loans.
• We invest in your professional growth & development.
• Time off for a winter recess.

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $130,000 to $165,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.