Mission Statement
Bauer Media Audio is Europe’s leading commercial audio broadcaster. We are on a journey to evolve the world of audio and continue to deliver for our audiences across Broadcast and Digital by sustained innovation across our entire product and technology estate.
The Director of Architecture (m/f/d) is a strategic technology leader responsible for defining and guiding Architecture across audio broadcast systems, digital product engineering, and AI capabilities. This role ensures technology decisions support business strategy, drive innovation, and deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions across a diverse technical landscape.
This individual will lead a team of Architects across Bauer Media Audio (BMA), covering the three areas of our estate, working closely with leaders in the Technology & AI Leadership team, as well as leaders across all markets to ensure our technology strategy works for the whole of BMA.
Main Responsibilities
Architecture:
1. Define and maintain the technology architecture vision spanning broadcast distribution chain and associated systems, cloud platforms, digital products, data, and AI
2. Establish architectural standards, patterns, and governance to ensure alignment across engineering teams
3. Lead long-term platform strategy, architectural reviews and technology assessments
4. Translate business objectives into scalable, interoperable, and cost-efficient technical designs
Leadership & Collaboration:
5. Mentor a team of architects; build a high-performance architecture practice
6. Act as a trusted technical advisor to the executive leadership team, product, commercial and data stakeholders
7. Drive cross-functional alignment between engineering, operations, security, broadcast technology, product, and AI teams
8. Contribute to wider Bauer Media Group technology decisions and approach as required
9. Represent BMA across the Bauer Media Group and in the industry as required
Technical Oversight:
10. Drive the approach for the technical evolution of BMA’s overall Technology estate across broadcast, product and AI
11. Play a key role on the modernisation of the broadcast technology stack across all nine BMA markets, helping to ensure a joined approach across all teams involved
12. Guide architectural decisions and technical direction for core digital products and systems
13. Drive the evaluation and adoption of new technologies, tools, and processes that enhance productivity and innovation
14. Removing ambiguity from requirements by suggesting solutions aligned to core architectural principals, patterns and best practice
15. This role is focussed on the future
Main Objectives
16. Collaboration & Cooperation: As a key member of the Technology & AI team, work closely with peers and key stakeholders on driving the digital transformation of BMA
17. Delivering Value & Technical Alignment: Guarantee that BMA’s technical strategy aligns and enables the delivery of business goals
18. Team Growth & Development: Ensure the architecture team is motivated, well-supported, and continuously improves
Job Requirements
Personal skills:
19. Organisation & Prioritisation: Ability to manage multiple projects and demands, ensuring that business and market needs are met in a timely manner
20. Clear Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in managing high-pressure situations like incident escalations
21. Resilience & Adaptability: Ability to maintain calm and clarity under pressure, demonstrating strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex technical environments
22. Strong problem-solving abilities, with a technical background that allows for effective management of complex back-end systems
23. High emotional intelligence, with a focus on empathy-driven communication and conflict resolution
24. Adaptable and decisive, capable of handling shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
25. Excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently
Social skills:
26. Collaboration & Empathy: Strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders. A focus on transparent and empathetic communication
27. Conflict Resolution: Ability to mediate disputes within the team and ensure conflicts are resolved constructively
28. Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to interact and influence at an executive level
Previous work experience
29. Strong technical backgound and leadership experience
30. Experience leading architecture teams in a large, matrix organisation
31. Ideally experience in the media industry