Internal Applications Engineer

Music is Universal

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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. Were 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 & CCSIDs.

• 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 jobholders 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.