Universal Music Group · 3 months ago
Data Migration Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$50.68/hr - $67.57/hr
5+ years expUniversal Music Group is a leading music and entertainment company, and they are seeking a Data Migration Engineer to facilitate successful data migrations across various projects. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing migration plans, and ensuring data integrity and compliance throughout the migration process.
Audio Recording and ProductionMedia and EntertainmentMusicPublishing
Responsibilities
Works collaboratively with business and project leaders and other impacted departments, and coordinates efforts across stakeholder groups in assisting to set goals and expectations
Use tools to setup and run migrations and post migration reporting: scan and report on the environment using existing automated scripts
Gather post migration feedback
Interpret reports to suggest organization of data for optimum performance, security and usability and work with business managers to agree a final outline, ensuring compliance with the UMG Digital Media and other guidelines
Working with project team and business units to confirm migration plan, manage preparation timing, re-syncing data and final cutovers
Assist pre and post migration with any issues and best practices (remediating and re-organizing data, removing duplicates and stale data)
Work with Communication and User Experience teams on feedback and to inform best practice
Update support documentation for post migration support teams
Actively suggest updates to streamline the migration process
Manage ongoing requests and support tickets
Work internationally to support migrations out of hours: e.g. Europe (morning) and Asia (afternoon)
Working with team members by updating team Monday boards, SharePoint hosted files, etc
Working with the Ci Media and other partners to coordinate migrations for the optimum user experience
Archive of data as necessary
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
5+ years of relevant experience with a proven ability to execute on technology and collaboration programs; music/entertainment industry experience is helpful
Leadership and project management capabilities with demonstrated success completing multiple cross-functional and cross-business projects
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at various levels, including senior leadership
Experience working closely with cross-functional teams and balancing competing workloads
Microsoft SharePoint Migration Manager (OneDrive / SharePoint migrations), Microsoft Purview Compliance Data LifeCycle Management (import PSTs), Box Shuttle (Box Migrations), CyberArk, Powershell, SharePoint administration, MS Power Platform
Self-motivated with ability to not only work in group/individual setting, but able to drive action and independently with little to no direction
Proficiency in MS Office applications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, Technology or relevant field, or equivalent combination of skills and experience
Hands-on experience with tools like BitTitan, SkyKick, ShareGate, Google Workspace Migrate, Azure Data Factory, or custom ETL solutions
Strong knowledge of scripting (Python, PowerShell, SQL) for automation, transformations, and validation
Understanding of structured/unstructured data, APIs, and staging processes (SFTP, cloud storage, etc.)
Ability to profile, clean, and transform data to ensure accuracy and integrity during migrations
Strong SQL/querying background to validate record counts, reconcile data sets, and troubleshoot discrepancies
Familiarity with metadata, file structures, and mapping exercises
Comfort with diagnosing failures in large-scale migrations (timeouts, corrupted files, schema mismatches, access/auth issues)
Quick thinker who can identify root causes and workarounds with minimal downtime
Experience handling complex cutover strategies and rollback planning
Experience working in structured migration projects (phased rollouts, blackout windows, checkpoints, reporting)
Ability to create repeatable, documented processes that scale across acquisitions and environments
Attention to detail with strong documentation and reporting habits (validation reports, migration logs, dashboards)
Works well with cross-functional teams (IT, security, business owners, external vendors)
Ability to translate technical issues into business impact language for stakeholders
Comfortable leading migration workshops, user acceptance testing, and post-migration support conversations
Preferred
Microsoft or IT Certification(s) preferred
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401K
Company
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It is a sub-organization of Leviy Publishing.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.65BKey Investors
William AckmanTencent
2023-06-06Post Ipo Debt· $802.31M
2021-09-21IPO
2021-06-21Secondary Market· $4.17B
Leadership Team
Devraj Sanyal
Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group, India & South Asia; SVP Strategy "AMEA"
Timothy Xu
Chairman and CEO
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