Senior Data Engineer

About the Role 

At Orfium, we're building the future of music rights and royalties through technology and data. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a driving force behind the tools, infrastructure, and scalable systems that power our data-driven culture. Your primary focus will be on solving complex, systems-level problems and ensuring high-performance, efficient data workflows.

You will operate within a modern, self-service data stack, including Snowflake, AWS Services, Airflow, and DBT. Your responsibilities will range from architecting foundational platform services to designing core workflows for critical business systems like billing and reporting. You won't just build pipelines; you'll build the systems that build the pipeline

This is an opportunity to own major data initiatives, influence strategic direction, and grow your platform and data product engineering skills in a collaborative, Agile environment.

Responsibilities 

• Architect and Own Data Systems: Take ownership of the (re)design, (re)architecture, and deployment of critical, highly-scalable data systems.
• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as a technical leader in cross-functional projects, proactively shaping requirements and influencing product/engineering roadmaps to ensure data feasibility and scalability.
• Advance Data Governance & Reliability: Design and implement solutions for data observability , monitoring usage dashboards/metrics , and defining quality standards to ensure trust and reliability across the entire data mesh.
• Mentor and Enable the Team: Coach and mentor other engineers and analysts in data engineering best practices, driving the adoption of self-service tools and technical standards across domain teams.
• Evolve Data Technical Strategy: Actively contribute to major architectural improvements and research/propose new technologies to shape the strategic direction of Orfium's data platform and data products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a relevant technology field.
• At least 4 years of professional experience in Data Engineering.
• Proficiency in SQL and strong skills in Python for data manipulation and pipeline development.
• Expertise in Snowflake or similar modern data warehouses (Databricks, BigQuery), including performance tuning, cost optimization, and governance.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, specifically in utilizing services for data infrastructure.
• Proven ability to establish and enforce best practices for data engineering CI/CD workflows
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions of complex data initiatives.

Nice to Have

• Expertise in designing and maintaining complex ETL/ELT workflows using Airflow and DBT.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform, AWS Cloudformation/CDK) to automate data services deployment.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes) for managing data services.
• Exposure to data visualization and BI tools like Tableau, Metabase, or similar.
• Prior experience working in an Agile environment and contributing to iterative delivery.

About Us 

We are a global technology leader transforming the music and entertainment industry through advanced rights management and data solutions. With 700+ team members across offices in Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Athens, Sofia, Tokyo, and more, we partner with top-tier clients such as Sony Music Publishing, Warner Music Group, BBC, and Universal Music Publishing. Our mission is to help creators, rights holders, and media companies track, manage, and monetize content across platforms like YouTube and TikTok. At Orfium, you'll join a passionate, international team of developers, designers, scientists, and music lovers, all working together in a flexible, hybrid environment where innovation, openness, and ownership are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking forward to meeting with you

Benefits

Competitive salary package and participation in our Stock Options plan
Hybrid work model with flexibility to support your lifestyle
Comprehensive private health and life insurance coverage
Extra paid time off to recharge and take care of yourself
The latest tech equipment to support your productivity and creativity
A collaborative, inclusive, and international work environment

At Orfium, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates—regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We're here to ensure you have a comfortable and fair experience every step of the way.