Senior Director of Engineering, D2C New London

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We have played a pioneering role in music history, nurturing some of music's most iconic artists and producing influential recordings. Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing independent artists, and visionary creators.

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, overseeing the technical ecosystem from end-to-end, ensuring seamless integration of manufacturing, supply chain, front-end experiences, financial and reporting systems.

Your impressive skills as a technologist will allow you to own the Engineering Roadmap, facilitate the architecture of scalable applications, and lead automation and continuous integration efforts. You will manage and mentor individuals on the Engineering team(s), taking pride in the accomplishments and growth of the team.

An ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing elegant and scalable solutions with simplicity and pragmatism.

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 technology strategy and architecture goals.
• Develop, measure, and manage key metrics for area performance.
• Make effective staffing and hiring decisions to achieve area 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:

• Senior Director of Engineering with 12-15+ years of experience.
• 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 departments.
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies (we use AWS).
• Hands-on engineering experience, ideally with Python, MySQL, and some PHP; data integration and ETL experience is a huge plus.
• An e-commerce background is a major plus.

What we give you:

• 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.
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next.
• The platform to champion positive change, contributing to social impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• An excellent range of benefits including private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, and music industry perks.
• Time off over winter break.

As an equal opportunity employer, Sony Music supports workforce diversity and treats all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.