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Software Engineering Manager, Data Platform

BangaloreHybridFull-time

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Software Engineering Manager focused on building Warner Music Group's next-generation Data Platform, leading a backend/data engineering team to design, build, and deliver large-scale data pipelines and services.

About this role

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
Warner Music Group (WMG) is a global music entertainment company with a rich history and a diverse roster of artists, a diverse roster of artists, such as Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Diljit Dosanjh, Armaan Malik, Darshan Raval, and Ayushmann Khurrana. We are committed to innovation and leveraging technology to enhance the music experience for our artists and fans.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your role:

We are building the next-generation Data Platform that sets the standard for freshness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and ease of use to power Warner Music Group’s business. We are reimagining this platform from the ground up, including:

• How we store, represent, ingest and serve factual data about artists, songwriters, and their works.

• How we ingest, process, ETL, and serve data about music consumption across all digital platforms with which we partner.

• How we represent the relationships between artists, songwriters, and their works to power next-generation search and discovery for our analysts and business partners.

Our Data Platform is the foundation of all we do at Warner Music Group, feeding core business processes like marketing optimization, performance tracking, and rights acquisition and distribution; next-generation capabilities like artist-fan connection, trend analysis and other machine learning powered applications; and even advanced capabilities like generative AI applications in music.

This role will collaborate closely with our North American Engineering teams to synchronize strategies, processes, and objectives. This is a hybrid position that requires you to work onsite at our Bangalore office a few days per week. As a Software Engineering Manager you will serve as technical people leader where you are hands-on and involved in designing and implementing greenfield projects with your team.

Here you’ll get to:

  • Reimagine and implement the future of data for the music industry
  • Build, drive and uplift a dynamic and highly effective engineering team
  • Own the creation and delivery of innovative products
  • Responsibilities:

  • End to end ownership of team deliverables and objectives
  • Set technical strategy and engineering best practices in collaboration with senior engineers
  • Provide active career development and technical guidance to engineers
  • Hiring, team building, and performance management
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to ensure successful project management
  • About you:

  • You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
  • You’re a passionate engineering leader, with at least 2 years of experience leading engineering teams of 5 -10+ software engineers
  • You have 4+ years of experience in backend development or data engineering
  • You have built or developed large-scale data processing pipelines and/or large, high-availability dimensional data stores
  • You communicate effectively and have a proven track record of effective hiring and team building
  • You thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced, evolving environments
  • You’re an empathetic leader who builds strong teams
  • Skills

    AirflowAPI DesignAWSAzureBackend DevelopmentCloud PlatformsData EngineeringData GovernanceData IngestionData ModelingData OrchestrationData PipelinesData QualityData StoresDbtDistributed SystemsETLGCPHadoopJavaLarge-scale Data ProcessingPythonScalaSparkSQLSQL/NoSQL DatabasesStream Processing

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