Director, Global Technology

Location: New York

About Sony Music Entertainment At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences.

In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

As Architect for the Global Technology Global Sales Reporting group, you will be responsible for the technical design, implementation and ongoing operation of our global SAMIS Data Warehouse / Data Lake. Large volumes of sales consumption data are ingested into this environment from various up-stream systems within cloud-based architectures. Users from various department gain strategic business insights from this data using the SAMIS Frontend.

What you'll do:

Transform the SAMIS architectural strategy into working code:
Own the implementation of the end-to-end data lifecycle (Ingestion, Processing, Storage, APIs, Enablement, Security/Sharing) . You will personally write critical path code for new ingestion connectors and API services.

Code and enforce SAMIS development standards:
Write the first versions of SAMIS coding templates, CI/CD workflows, and data quality frameworks. You will actively participate in design reviews and critical code review, submitting Pull Requests comments and alternative code snippets.

Deliver automated reporting by building the data marts:
Engage directly with business teams and other tech leads (Operation, Sales) to understand their KPIs. Design, build, and optimize the actual SAMIS aggregate tables and materialized views that power their dashboards, ensuring sub-second query performance.

Align SAMIS releases with source upstream and downstream system:
Work with System Owners, but at the API/Schema level. You will personally inspect upstream data workflows, write schema-validation scripts, and build automated alerting for when source systems introduce breaking changes.

Perform hands-on design and code walkthroughs:
Sit with architects and project leads, reviewing not just high-level designs but actual Python/SQL/Java code/Agentic AI Pluginy. You will refactor problematic modules and help junior engineers through pair-programming sessions on complex SAMIS transformation logic.

Run Targeted POCs for SAMIS:
Own the end-to-end execution of POCs for new SAMIS components and features (e.g., Golden Gate, Data Flow, Autonomous DB, New Lakehouse developments). You will set up the test environments, write the integration code, benchmark performance, and present your technical findings back to the Senior Leads for a final review.

Run weekly SAMIS technical working sessions:
Facilitate deep-dive meetings with leads and architects, actively contribute code-level feedback, whiteboard solutions, and write proof-of-concept scripts on the fly to resolve technical issues.

Code the SAMIS release management strategy:
Coordinate with Dev Ops to build and maintain the actual CI/CD YAML pipelines. You will define the deployment strategies  and personally oversee production releases, performing rollbacks when necessary.

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