Senior Director, Software Architecture - Sirius XM

Who We Are:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SiriusXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How you’ll make an impact:

Lead the team of Architects to design and deliver complete end-to-end solutions in the SiriusXM Connected Vehicles family of services. Work with respective Sales, Marketing and Product teams to translate customer requirements into actionable work for DevSecOps organization. Foster clear communications and accountability within and between teams and enable the teams to overcome obstacles. Be the bridge between our customers, executive management, and technical implementation. 

What you’ll do:

• Build a high-performing team of customer-facing solution architects who collaborate closely with sales and customer success to directly engage with customers. This includes pre-sales and post-sales activities that drive customer acquisition, onboarding, and overall success with CV's products and services.
• Actively support presales activities and discuss technical details with our customers.
• Establish the architectural principles to be used as building blocks for the Connected Vehicles services and platforms.
• Collaborate with Product leaders to align product roadmap and architecture with strategic direction.
• Drive architectural reviews and improvements of existing solutions and platforms.
• Develop and maintain the architectural roadmap for the Connected Vehicles services and platforms.
• Maintain a big picture, strategic outlook with the ability to iterate from company strategy to product development and planning.
• Be responsible for end-to-end solutioning for SiriusXM Connected Vehicles across various infrastructure, applications, and client components.
• Guide feature ideation, conceptual design, and user story creation to support an attainable and efficient design that follows best engineering practices and makes efficient use of resources. 
• Identify core challenges and decisions and determine approaches and strategies to handle them. 
• Lead discussions to determine approaches, risks, and costs utilizing a diverse set of perspectives. 
• Identify participants and stakeholders in the engineering effort across the company.
• Lead the team in creating and refining an optimal solution and implementation path, to produce the highest quality feature while making the best use of resources.
• Support the development and integration of all feature components. 
• Participate in detailed designs. 
• Diagnose and resolve escalated issues. 
• Participate in QA Design.
• Review and approve all architectural documentation. 
• Communicate, evangelize, and foster participation with team members across multiple organizations, especially for larger, higher priority and bolder projects. 
• Recommend technical, process, and organizational approaches and changes to improve culture, features, technology, and implementation across. 
• Foster collaboration and a free and open flow of information across organizations. 
• Present projects to executive management and rationales for strategic decision making. 
• Ensure summary and feasibility notes at Gate 0. 
• Ensure effort, cost, and objective value estimates at Gate 1.
• Identify and present any critical changes in status, risks, costs, achievable value, or othersignificant impacts to projects as they proceed through implementation and launch.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering 
• 12-15 years’ experience, service, and product architecture.
• Provide technical leadership for a diverse matrixed organization. 
• Drive the team to solve technical and schedule problems in cooperation with the business owner. 
• Experience with interacting with external customers, technology partners and executive teams to establish strong working relationships.
• Self-motivated, standout colleague, action-and-results oriented.
• Experience to manage a team senior technical staff across various technical areas.
• Exceptional project management, planning and organizational skills.
• A proven history of technical and organizational leadership.
• Works well with others and is a skilled communicator both written and oral; acts with professionalism both in person and when working on the phone with partners.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and work under shifting deadlines with potentially ambiguous or nebulous requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to analyze new technologies, emerging standards, and market trends, and understand how they affect Connected Vehicles products and services today and, in the future.
• Knowledge and understanding of: 
• Secure architecture practices
• Diverse platforms and programming languages 
• IP technology and protocols 
• Mobile app development 
• Cloud technology and server development 
• Modern software development and QA tools 
• Log analysis tools 
• Jira, Confluence, GitHub
• Servant leadership skills: 
• Ability to bring a diverse technical organization to agreement while considering all relevant input. 
• Ability to lead and support matrixed organizations to meet a common goal. 
• Ability to encourage and support deep team initiative to solve problems independently and follow through to reach the goal. 
• Ability to work within the agile process. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.  
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.  
• Ability to pay attention to details and be organized.  
• Ability to project professionalism over the video conference and in person.  
• Commitment to customer service principles.  
• Occasional local and regional travel.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.  

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.