Position Description
Title: Senior Data Integration Specialist
Department: Royalty Processing & Business Intelligence (BI)
Reports To: Associate Director, Data Warehouse
Supervisory Role: No
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Washington, DC (hybrid)
About Company
SoundExchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the future of music. It was independently formed in 2003 to build a fairer, simpler, and more efficient music industry through technology, data, and advocacy.
The only organization designated by the U.S. government to administer the Section 114 sound recording license, SoundExchange collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of 600,000 music creators and growing. Through proprietary music tech solutions that turn data into accurate revenue, SoundExchange has paid more than $9 billion in distributions to date.
Position Summary
The Senior Data Integration Specialist is an established developer that understands the complexities of data, navigates through multi-cloud implementations, and delivers high quality solutions to impact a variety of core and business development opportunities at SoundExchange.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the monitoring of data flow between databases, servers, and cloud services (Oracle, AWS, Azure) to identify and implement data integration architectures. This person will excel in agile, multi team, collaborative, dynamic and fast-paced environments.
Essential Functions
- Plan, execute, and manage the strategic integration of new data and data stores into existing systems and infrastructure throughout the enterprise, including introduction of Cloud services as applicable
- Develop standards and processes to support and facilitate integration projects and initiatives
- Collaborate with the BI Team and Product owners to fulfill data warehouse and business requirements
- Classify design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and endorse changes or enhancements
- Conduct research on emerging new products, languages, and standards in support of procurement, development, security, and integration efforts in relation to the Cloud, BI, and data management
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions
- Lead and/or support the development of product solutions
- Document, manage, and report on project risks and opportunities
- Prioritizes tasks and meets project deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
- Conform with all company policies and procedures
- Experience on multi-cloud environments will be preferred
- Experience with ETL tools (Pentaho and or Oracle Data integration preferable)
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping and methodology development, and data mapping
- Experience working with data quality issues and providing remedies to those issues.
- Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages: Python, SQL etc.
- Demonstrate understanding and experience with technical systems, datasets, data warehouses, and data analysis techniques
- Strong analytical skills: ability to build quick estimates using back-of-the-envelope analysis, structure (and, if needed, execute) more complex analyses, pull together business cases, navigate multidimensional sets of tradeoffs.
- Above all, the job calls for comfort with data – ability to manipulate it, question its validity, interpret it, and develop recommendations based on it
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs)
- Experience on multi-cloud environments will be preferred
- Experience with ETL tools (Pentaho and or Oracle Data integration preferable)
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping and methodology development, and data mapping
- Experience working with data quality issues and providing remedies to those issues.
- Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages: Python, SQL etc.
- Demonstrate understanding and experience with technical systems, datasets, data warehouses, and data analysis techniques
- Strong analytical skills: ability to build quick estimates using back-of-the-envelope analysis, structure (and, if needed, execute) more complex analyses, pull together business cases, navigate multidimensional sets of tradeoffs. Above all, the job calls for comfort with data – ability to manipulate it, question its validity, interpret it, and develop recommendations based on it.
Required Education, Certifications/ Licenses, Related Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- At least 10 years or more total software development, architecture, and solution design experience
- At least 5 years of hands on, ETL and data analysis experience.
- At least 3 years’ experience with Cloud Native technologies
- At least 2 years’ experience in design, implementation, deployment, and support of public cloud services and infrastructure (Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform)
ADA Specifications
- This position requires the ability to spend majority of the time viewing computer monitors
- The person in this position may need to move about the corporate office(s) more than half the time
- This position requires the ability to spend more than half the time viewing computer monitors
Travel Requirements:
This position has no travel requirements
DEI Statement
At SoundExchange, we empower creators and help share the future of music. One way we do this is by respecting diverse voices, varied perspectives, and distinct backgrounds of all of our team members. We are intentional in creating an inclusive culture where we recognize that equity is greater than equality and all employees have the opportunities and support needed to thrive.
We strive to create teams that reflect the music community we serve – every individual’s unique attributes and abilities are valued, and are part of how we innovate, create, and deliver experiences to the creators we champion.
Contact
To apply, please send a cover letter and résumé to jobs@soundexchange.com.
Note: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position.
They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary.
