Broadcast Principal Architect
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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 through sustained innovation across our entire product and technology estate. You’ll join a collaborative architecture practice working across Audio and the wider enterprise technology estate, partnering with product, commercial and platform teams across multiple markets.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Principal Architect, you will act as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture of our broadcast and commercial technology platforms and the integrations that connect them. Reporting to the Director of Architecture, you will combine strategic direction with hands-on involvement, acting as a trusted partner to leadership and key stakeholders while supporting the transformation of broadcast technology to the cloud and renewal of commercial platforms.
Your Role
You'll own the architecture vision for your area and provide both leadership and technical oversight across major initiatives. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain architecture vision for broadcast, commercial platforms and integrations
- Provide oversight across programmes including cloud transformation and platform renewal
- Establish and apply architecture standards, patterns and principles
- Lead architectural reviews, technology assessments and decision-making
- Encourage reuse and consider lifecycle and total cost of ownership
- Lead and mentor solution architects
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, product and commercial teams
- Ensure alignment with security, legal, finance and infrastructure stakeholders
- Oversee integration design and data flows across core systems
- Guide technology adoption and remove ambiguity through strong solution design
- Balance strategic direction with delivery into production
The Skills You Will Bring
Essential:
- Strong technical background with architecture leadership experience
- Experience delivering architectural oversight across major programmes
- Experience in broadcast or media technology
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to lead through influence and collaboration. Our markets retain real autonomy, so alignment is built collaboratively rather than directed, which takes patience as much as persuasion
Desirable:
- Hands-on cloud experience (ideally AWS)
- Knowledge of system integration or iPaaS tooling
- Experience with media asset management
- Experience in matrix or multi-market organisations
We don’t expect candidates to bring experience across all technology areas. Depth in one or two areas, alongside strong architecture foundations, is what matters. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t cover everything listed here.
Working Pattern & Location
Hybrid working twice a week in office, this role can be based out of Peterborough/London/Manchester.
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
What’s in it for you
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
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London, GB, NW1 2PL
