Director, Data Management and Architecture

Concord is the world’s leading independent music company. The Company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord's growing catalog of 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals is one of the most impactful and culturally relevant collections of creative rights in history.

Concord is headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Miami.

As the Director, Data Management and Architecture,  you will be responsible for leading and developing data management, architecture, and operational plans to support the organization’s digital initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to continue to establish a centralized data management program in the Information Systems and Technology organization to enable data-driven decision-making throughout the organization

Core Responsibilities:

Data Architecture and Data Management

• Develop and maintain the data architecture strategy to support digital transformation.
• Works with business and IT partners in the design of the data warehouse to ensure interoperability and data normalization with applications and BI tools.
• Design data models, schemas, and data flows to ensure effective data integration, storage, and retrieval.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for data solutions, including data models, architectures, workflows, and integration points.
• Design, implement, data marts that provide business teams with ad-hoc access to large datasets.

Data Governance

• Provide best practices and governance for the use of Snowflake as an enterprise platform.
• Establish and enforce data management standards, best practices, and governance policies.
• Monitor data usage, quality, and performance, and make recommendations for improvements
• Work with IT and security teams to ensure data security protocols are in place and adhered to.
• Set up a BI Framework to manage the data and reporting structure for BI tools.  

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand their data requirements and translate them into effective data solutions.
• Train and assist the business with the usage of data tools as needed.
• Provide/coordinate business support as needed. 

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Assists with roadmaps for Bi tools and Snowflake as a Data warehouse, keeping up to date with platform capabilities and how to implement new features in the platforms.
• Evaluate AI capabilities in BI platform and Snowflake for future use.
• Will work with business to design and build enterprise data products.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related quantitative discipline
• Minimum 7+ years of work experience in data management
• Minimum 2+ years of experience mentoring employees in a data related field
• Current or recent hands-on experience with all of the following required: Power BI, AWS, Snowflake. This is a hands-on role.
• 3+ years of PowerBI experience preferred
• 3+ years of Technical hands-on expertise in all aspects of Snowflake preferred, including Snowflake administration.
• Up to data on the latest Snowflake capabilities (Snowpark, Cortex, Streamlit, ect)
• AWS experience required
• Knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.)
• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
• Experience with supporting databases deployed in AWS or Azure
• ERP and or accounting functional knowledge desired
• Able to collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers and consultants and enjoys the challenge of shifting priorities to support a growing business

*This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days minimum on-site.

At Concord, we offer comprehensive medical and wellness benefits, generous time off, parental leave, charity match, paid time off for volunteering, and other fun company perks. We have beautiful new offices and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We believe that diversity, inclusion and equity is paramount for the creation of music, theater and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.