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Principal Enterprise Architect
iHeartMedia
San Antonio, TX, United States
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Job Summary:
With over a quarter of a billion monthly listeners in the U.S., iHeartMedia has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America. The company owns and operates 858 broadcast radio stations, serving more than 150 markets throughout the U.S. Plus, iHeartRadio - an industry-leading digital music service - gives users instant access to more than 2,000 live radio stations and allows them to create custom stations inspired by favorite artists or songs, anywhere they are.
As part of the enterprise architecture team, the Principal Enterprise Architect will be responsible for owning the end-to-end enterprise architecture of one or more business domains. The architect will work with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, IT leaders, and others to understand the business domains, their value streams, technology landscape, and gaps and inefficiencies. The architect will focus on defining a target-state architecture that meets current and future business needs in an efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with business and IT teams to architect enterprise solutions that align with business strategy and remain in synchronization with ever-changing business needs
• Develop an architectural vision in areas of responsibility, communicate it clearly with peers, executives, and non-technical audiences, and implement incremental milestones in support of that vision
• Identify gaps and build roadmaps to address them
• Document, visualize and communicate current-state and future-state architectures and designs
• Maintain the architecture repository, catalogs, and other artifacts for assigned domain(s)
• Collaborate with the rest of the enterprise architecture team to develop enterprise-wide architectures that cross business domains and divisions
• Develop enterprise standards, guidelines, and architectures that ensure delivered systems are scalable, loosely-coupled, secure, performant, highly available, and easy to operate
• Promote the use of shared platforms, services, and applications to reduce costs and improve overall efficiency
• Ensure projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from the end-state enterprise architecture
• Provide architectural direction for domain projects and collaborate with other architects and technical teams on challenging technical solutions
• Act as a consultant to leaders and business stakeholders
• Evaluate business systems and technical platforms and make selection recommendations
• Perform buy vs. build analysis
• Keep abreast of industry standards, software and data innovation, architectural trends, and major technology vendors and leaders
• Be a thought leader in the area of software architecture and development
• Break down assignments into manageable tasks and ensure transparency and visibility into backlog and progress
Skills and experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent
• A minimum of 13 years of IT experience with at least 4 in architecture
• Deep knowledge in the areas of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, cloud architecture, software development, application integration, and architectural modeling
• Working knowledge in all major areas of technical architecture and platforms:
◦ Application: Web services, SOA, microservices, queuing and messaging, logging and monitoring, programming languages, development tools, technology stacks (open source, Java, .NET, etc.), UI frameworks (web/desktop/mobile), APIs (REST/SOAP), testing, performance tuning, automation, CI/CD, Agile, and DevOps
◦ Data: Master data management, big data, RDBMS, NoSQL, SQL, ETL, analytics, and BI
◦ Security: Identity, directory, authentication/authorization, single-sign-on, access management, encryption, data privacy, backup, and disaster recovery
◦ Infrastructure: Compute, storage, network, load-balancing, scalability, and availability
• Proven record of architecting and building large-scale, complex applications used in business-critical operations and featuring high performance/throughput and scalability, high availability, proper backup, restore, and disaster recovery implementation, and secure communication and data access controls
• Experience with industry standard EA methodologies and frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, etc.
• Experience in working both independently and with multi-discipline teams, business stakeholders, and management in a large, globally-distributed corporate environment
• Team player who can collaborate across business units and IT
• Excellent communication skills including documenting, visualizing, presenting to a mixed/large audience, and balancing talking and listening
• Excellent leadership skills including collaboration, accountability, results driven, self-motivation, big-picture thinking, requiring minimal supervision, building strong relations, negotiating, and mentoring
• Ability to achieve results through influence
• High attention to detail and strong analytical, organizational, and task management skills
• Experience in media is a plus