Vice President Engineering

at  Audacy Inc

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:

• 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.
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