Lead Developer, Universal Music Group
Office located in Kings Cross, London
Music-based entertainment
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Music-based entertainment
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Kings Cross, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape culture through the power of artistry.
Role
Who you are
- Strong commercial experience with Java for backend development
- Proven experience building solutions on AWS, ideally including serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, etc.)
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration
- Good understanding of DevOps concepts, with practical experience using Git and working with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or similar)
- Experience with SQL (AWS Redshift and Aurora PostgreSQL)
- Comfortable working in an agile environment (Scrum/Kanban)
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a collaborative mindset
- Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines using AWS Glue
- Experience building supporting services and automation using Python
Desirable
- Experience in media, entertainment or digital content domains
- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
- Any experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and/or MLOps (e.g. model deployment pipelines, monitoring and lifecycle management) is highly desirable
- Understanding of compliance requirement around SDLC, ITGC, ITAC
- Experience with Flyway or similar database migration tooling
- Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch for search and indexing workloads
What the job involves
- 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 Lead Developer will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining one of UMG external facing royalty portal using Java. The Lead Developer will also work with containerised workloads on Kubernetes, and have exposure to modern DevOps and CI/CD practices
- The Lead Developer will be part of an agile product team, collaborating closely with product owners, business analysts, engineers, architects, QAs and DevOps to deliver secure, performant and reliable solutions
- Be Technical
- Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs using Java
- Develop and support AWS serverless solutions (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3)
- Work with Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and run containerised services
- Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, secure and resilient cloud architectures
- Work with DevOps engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment processes
- Model and optimise data (AWS Redshift and Aurora PostgreSQL)
- Be a leader
- Providing technical leadership and direction for the Royalty development team
- Orchestrate development by leading a development team
- Establish and enforce development guidelines
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels
- Be Collaborative
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and agile ceremonies
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve monitoring, logging and alerting across services
- Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions on time
- Build positive relationships with business stakeholders and rest of development teams
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Universal Music Group (UMG) was founded in 1998 and it has grown rapidly and steadily since, now establishing a position as one of the "Big Three" record labels (alongside Sony Music and Warner Music Group).
UMG differentiates itself from competitors with its internal links across business functions. Each artist can access the best recording technologies, merchandising services, management services, and live music services, as well as much more. This is not provided by other smaller and even larger companies, meaning UMG is in a unique position to build each artist’s “brand”.
UMG became a publicly traded company in late 2021 and has used funds to finance its international expansion. Valued at over $49.8 billion, this global music leader looks to remain in a strong position for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Lucian Grainge
(CEO & Chairman)Worked in the music business for his entire career. He has been named the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s by Billboard.
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