Director of Architecture (m/f/d)

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:

• Define and maintain the technology architecture vision spanning broadcast distribution chain and associated systems, cloud platforms, digital products, data, and AI
• Establish architectural standards, patterns, and governance to ensure alignment across engineering teams
• Lead long-term platform strategy, architectural reviews and technology assessments
• Translate business objectives into scalable, interoperable, and cost-efficient technical designs

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Mentor a team of architects; build a high-performance architecture practice
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the executive leadership team, product, commercial and data stakeholders
• Drive cross-functional alignment between engineering, operations, security, broadcast technology, product, and AI teams
• Contribute to wider Bauer Media Group technology decisions and approach as required
• Represent BMA across the Bauer Media Group and in the industry as required

Technical Oversight:

• Drive the approach for the technical evolution of BMA’s overall Technology estate across broadcast, product and AI
• 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
• Guide architectural decisions and technical direction for core digital products and systems
• Drive the evaluation and adoption of new technologies, tools, and processes that enhance productivity and innovation
• Removing ambiguity from requirements by suggesting solutions aligned to core architectural principals, patterns and best practice
• This role is focussed on the future

Main Objectives

• 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
• Delivering Value & Technical Alignment: Guarantee that BMA’s technical strategy aligns and enables the delivery of business goals
• Team Growth & Development: Ensure the architecture team is motivated, well-supported, and continuously improves

Job Requirements

Personal skills: 

• Organisation & Prioritisation: Ability to manage multiple projects and demands, ensuring that business and market needs are met in a timely manner
• Clear Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in managing high-pressure situations like incident escalations
• Resilience & Adaptability: Ability to maintain calm and clarity under pressure, demonstrating strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex technical environments
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a technical background that allows for effective management of complex back-end systems
• High emotional intelligence, with a focus on empathy-driven communication and conflict resolution
• Adaptable and decisive, capable of handling shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently

Social skills:

• Collaboration & Empathy: Strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders. A focus on transparent and empathetic communication
• Conflict Resolution: Ability to mediate disputes within the team and ensure conflicts are resolved constructively
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to interact and influence at an executive level

Previous work experience 

• Strong technical backgound and leadership experience
• Experience leading architecture teams in a large, matrix organisation
• Ideally experience in the media industry

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.

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