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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Onsite
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
Global Technology powers the digital ecosystem behind UMG/UMPG. We develop and support secure, scalable systems and platforms used by artists, songwriters, partners & employees worldwide, while championing innovation and cultivating a culture that embraces emerging technologies and continuous improvement.
With a global footprint, the Universal Music Group Royalty and Copyright Product Team designs, develops, delivers and maintains a number of technical solutions to calculate royalty accountings in a timely and accurate manner to our valued artists. We’re also providing them with an extent and detailed visibility of these earning from various sources of digital incomes.
The team continuously collaborates with our international business teams to deliver innovative solutions as well as supporting best practices and new processes for a better royalty flow.
The Role
The primary purpose of the application engineer will be developing and supporting this royalty application. This will include user interface improvements, performance enhancements, integrations with other internal systems and operational support.
The Application engineer will report to the Technical Product Owner who is responsible for delivering the roadmap and associated projects aimed at enhancing and optimising one of UMG core royalty calculation system with a user base across over more than 45 countries.
The Responsibilities
Be Technical
Thorough and current knowledge of the IBMi and its operating system.
HTML, Javascript, CSS
RPGLE, SQLRPGLE, SQL, CLLE, on an IBMi
Knowledge of Turnover or a similar change management tool
Be Collaborative
Build positive relationships with business stakeholders and rest of the development teams
Participate in regular meetings with stakeholders to review requirements and update on development in
progress and address concerns
Proven ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences
Produce support documentation for planned implementation
Ability to work in a team as well as being able to work on own initiative where necessary
Attention to detail and accuracy
Ensure tasks are completed within agreed timescales
Must have
Proven track record working as an IBM I-series developer
WebSmart
JQuery & AJAX
Apache Configuration
Visual Studio Code
Up to date knowledge of IBMi ACS & Navigator for i
XML, SSH, JSON & SFTP
Experience of Code Performance Optimisation for IBMi
Experience of Hardware Performance Optimisation for IBMi
Knowledge of Microservices/Web Services, APIs
Double Byte Character sets & CCSID’s.
Knowledge of EBCDIC, ASCII, UNICODE & HEX
Nice to have
Knowledge of Synon 2E
Music industry business knowledge and specifically Royalties and Copyright processes.
JIRA experience
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
