Senior Staff Solutions Architect - Sirius XM

Who We Are:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM 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 SXM 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:

Architect complete end-to-end solutions for automotive IP and satellite features in the SiriusXM + Pandora family of services. Rally and lead cross organizational efforts to implement solutions. Foster clear communications and accountability within and between teams and enable the teams to overcome obstacles. Be the champion of each feature and of execution excellence in achieving it. Be the bridge between executive management and technical implementation. Provide system security expertise in reviewing designs of automotive features.

What you’ll do:

• Architect complete end-to-end solutions for IP and satellite automotive features across infrastructure, IT, satellite feed, IP server and client components.

• Drive and facilitate entire engineering process from concept through release to create new features in an agile process.

• 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. In addition to typical engineering challenges, identify security issues and threat surfaces, and approaches to ameliorating risks.

• Provide technical leadership for a unique diverse matrixed organization for each feature.

• Drive the feature team to solve technical and schedule problems in cooperation with the feature owner.

• 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 all engineering.

• Foster collaboration and a free and open flow of information across all organizations.

• Lead discussions to determine approaches, risks, and costs utilizing a diverse set of perspectives.

• Identify and document engineering requirements.

• Identify participants and stakeholders in the engineering effort across the company.

• Lead the team in creating and refining an optimal design and implementation path, to produce the highest quality feature while making the best use of resources.

• Lead the team in creating increasingly refined work and cost estimates through the decision making and implementation process.

• Identify and design top level interactions between components.

  • Set functional requirements for each component within the overall design.

  • Set requirements for contracts between components.

  • Lead top level and facilitate detailed contract design.

• Resolve encountered design issues over the entire process from conceptual design through implementation and release.

• Create top level tickets defining the work required from all participants.

  • Identify each component’s required function within the feature.

  • Identify each component’s requirements to meet overall system and feature requirements and to enable successful implementation of other components.

• Support the development and integration of all feature components.

  • Participate in detailed designs.

  • Diagnose and resolve escalated issues.

• Participate in QA Design

  • Identify top level feature QA tests that aren’t obvious at the component level.

  • Review and approve all component and end to end feature QA tests.

• Review and approve all component documentation.

• Present projects to executive management and the product board at each feature gate with data and rationales for strategic decision making.

  • Feature summary and feasibility notes at Gate 1.

  • Feature effort, cost, and objective value estimates at Gate 2.

  • Identify and present any critical changes in status, risks, costs, achievable value, or other significant impacts to projects as they proceed through implementation and launch.

• Identify and pursue new ideas for features, processes, strategies, or technologies and present same to the organization for further investigation.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering

• 8+ years’ experience, primarily in software development projects.

• 5+ years’ experience in designing end user services in any of these areas:

  • Financial

  • Data/Information

  • Content, especially audio or video.

  • Internet

  • Cable

  • Satellite

  • Web

  • Mobile Services (Android, iOS)

• 5+ years with architectural and leadership responsibilities in primarily software engineering projects.

• 5+ years with security architecture and engineering responsibilities in primarily software engineering projects.

• Working knowledge of:

  • Diverse platforms and programming languages

  • IP technology and protocols

  • Mobile app development

  • Cloud technology and server development

  • Modern software development and QA tools

  • State of the art security engineering practices and issues.

  • Log analysis tools

  • Jira

  • Confluence

• Or equivalent, relevant experience.

• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $153,000 to $234,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

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.