Overview

Audacy is looking for a seasoned and innovative Engineer for our VP of Architecture role. As head of Audacy Software Engineering Architecture team, you will be responsible for driving the organizational thought leadership and delivery of core technologies that are critical to our success. The candidate will be responsible for providing technical leadership to the team; capable of researching, architecting, prototyping, working with vendors on integration and development of a range of systems such as streaming, publishing, data, analytics, backplane, APIs and more. You will be both a resource for development teams and a leader in driving overall systems governance, architecture and best practices.

The ideal candidate is passionate about creating effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products and online services. You love to iterate quickly. You must have knowledge of building scalable cloud based solutions, experience in managing vendors and getting things done. You have experience in some, or all, of the following areas: audio/video streaming, content management systems, data pipelines and analytics. You are also a team and consensus builder and understand why ‘soft power’ is so important.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

• Orchestrate the design and implementation of foundational platform capabilities that are critical to Audacy’s success in building a scalable, efficient, high-performance platform.
• Provide leadership and guidance on technology decisions to ensure alignment with long-term business goals. 
• Partner with the Technology Leadership team, Engineers, and Business Stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy aligned with company objectives.
• Work with peers and team members inside and outside engineering to translate business and technical requirements into architectural frameworks and designs.
• Develop practical yet advanced solutions to maximize technology and business success.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to ensure alignment with the original proposed architecture and design through architectural governance.
• Proactively identify and suggest architectural improvements to as-is Systems.
• Support and drive evaluation of AI tools with a focus on GenAI and MLL.
• In key areas, provide code-level design support.
• Facilitate and lead in the evaluation and selection of commercial-off-the-shelf product, frameworks and open source platforms.
• Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation.
• Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices.
• Support multiple projects simultaneously.
• Grow the architecture team over time; Lead and mentor the architecture team members and other software engineers throughout the organization.
• Build and maintain a positive and productive team culture.

Qualifications

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering, Computer Science), Master's degree preferred
• 10 years relevant experience as a Systems Engineer / Architect working in the SaaS and cloud space.
• Experience in developing high-level architectural design and technology roadmaps, and then driving hands-on development of those roadmaps.
• Expert in developing detailed network system diagrams, flow diagrams, and state diagrams.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills, with strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to collaborate without guidance.
• You possess leadership qualities, including ability to facilitate technical discussions with diverse and cross-functional groups and good negotiation skills.
• You know how to tailor communication to the target audience to achieve desired results
• Ability to quickly research new topics and technologies and understand how to apply them to our problem space.
• If you don’t know, you can learn it - quickly.
• You can juggle multiple projects and change priorities as the business needs change.
• Must have extensive experience in defining and building scalable Cloud-based systems:
• Appreciation of the design concepts behind large scale web applications
• Intuitive design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for architecting reliable systems that scale
• Understanding of API driven architecture, microservices architecture, Data backplane architecture, and modern development AI-enabled patterns.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code on AWS or other cloud providers
• Streaming media industry experience a plus (but everything above is more important):
• Streaming technologies - HLS, DASH
• Ad servers; VAST, VMAP, VPAID, etc.
• Media pipelines including Encoders, Packagers, Server-side Ad Insertion

Additional Information

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $210,000-$235,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

About Us

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD; OTC: AUDA) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), X (@AudacyCorp), LinkedIn (@Audacy-Inc), Instagram (@lifeataudacy) and Threads (@Audacy_Corp).

EEO

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.