Senior Director of Engineering, D2C

Sony Music; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music and entertainment company in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Director of Engineering to lead their D2C development team. You will be responsible for managing the engineering strategy to support artist and merchandise stores globally. Ideal candidates have 12-15+ years in engineering, with hands-on experience in Python and cloud technologies, particularly AWS. This role offers opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and innovation within a vibrant community of creators.

Benefits

Private medical cover

Generous pension scheme

Income protection

Music industry perks

Winter break time off

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of experience in engineering roles.
• Proven ability to manage agile teams and processes.
• Hands-on engineering experience, preferably with Python and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead a product area composed of engineering leaders.
• Define roadmap and manage estimation efforts.
• Own delivery of product commitments and performance metrics.

Skills

Event-driven systems

Agile methodologies

Cloud technologies (AWS)

Python

MySQL

PHP

Data integration

E-commerce

Job description

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.

Sony Music Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDEGO) is looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to join our D2C development team.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for leading the Engineering strategy for our growing D2C vertical, which will power the technology that will support our artist, label, and merchandise stores worldwide. You’ll be overseeing the technical ecosystem from end-to-end, ensuring that manufacturing, supply chain, front-end experiences, financial and reporting systems are seamlessly integrated. You’ll be supporting an entire line of business, managing the development process, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and owning the successful execution of product deliverables.

Your impressive skills as a technologist will allow you to own the Engineering Roadmap, facilitate the architecture of scalable applications, as well as lead the charge on automation and continuous integration. You’ll be excited to learn that we ship code continuously 24/7 and take testing seriously. You’ll get the opportunity to get your hands dirty while also managing and mentoring individuals on the Engineering team(s). You are well respected for your technical skills, but take even more pride in the accomplishments and growth of the team.

An ideal candidate for this role is someone who thrives in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and is able to balance solutions that are elegant and scalable, yet simple and pragmatic. You embrace the value of shipping rather than over-engineering.

What you’ll do:

• Lead a Product Area made up of groups of individual contributors and engineering leaders.
• Partner with Product Managers, stakeholders and peer leaders to define roadmap, lead estimation efforts, call out risks and improve productivity.
• Own the delivery of product commitments while incorporating the technology strategy and architecture goals for your product area.
• Development, measurement, and management of key metrics for area’s performance.
• Make effective staffing and hiring decisions to achieve your area’s goals.
• Grow managers and individual contributors with a focus on mentorship, coaching and personal development.
• Advocate for your area and remove obstacles.

Who you are:

• We are seeking an Senior Director of Engineering with 12-15+ years of experience with –
• Ability to understand, communicate and improve the quality and productivity of multiple teams.
• Experience building modular, event-driven systems at scale.
• Passion for shipping daily and iterating.
• Solid experience directly managing agile teams and processes. Experience managing managers is a plus.
• Proven ability to provide constructive feedback and communicate effectively across your department.
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies (we use AWS).
• Passion for using technology to elegantly solve business problems.
• Hands on engineering experience, ideally with Python, MySQL, some PHP. Data integration and ETL experience is a huge plus.
• An e-commerce background is a major plus.

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break

Equal Opportunities
As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.