Broadcast Principal Architect in London

Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life Bauer Media Audio is Europe’s leading commercial audio broadcaster. You’ll join a collaborative architecture practice working across Audio and the wider enterprise technology estate, partnering with product, commercial and platform teams across multiple markets.

The Difference You Will Make As a Principal Architect, you will act as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture of our broadcast and commercial technology platforms and the integrations that connect them. Reporting to the Director of Architecture, you will combine strategic direction with hands‑on involvement, acting as a trusted partner to leadership and key stakeholders while supporting the transformation of broadcast technology to the cloud and renewal of commercial platforms.

Your Role You'll own the architecture vision for your area and provide both leadership and technical oversight across major initiatives.

• Own and maintain architecture vision for broadcast, commercial platforms and integrations
• Provide oversight across programmes including cloud transformation and platform renewal
• Establish and apply architecture standards, patterns and principles
• Lead architectural reviews, technology assessments and decision‑making
• Encourage reuse and consider lifecycle and total cost of ownership
• Lead and mentor solution architects
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, product and commercial teams
• Ensure alignment with security, legal, finance and infrastructure stakeholders
• Oversee integration design and data flows across core systems
• Guide technology adoption and remove ambiguity through strong solution design
• Balance strategic direction with delivery into production

The Skills You Will Bring

• Essential: Strong technical background with architecture leadership experience
• Experience delivering architectural oversight across major programmes
• Experience in broadcast or media technology
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to lead through influence and collaboration; alignment is built collaboratively rather than directed, which requires patience as well as persuasion

• Desirable: Hands‑on cloud experience (ideally AWS)
• Knowledge of system integration or iPaaS tooling
• Experience with media asset management
• Experience in matrix or multi‑market organisations

We don’t expect candidates to bring experience across all technology areas. Depth in one or two areas, alongside strong architecture foundations, is what matters. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t cover everything listed here.

Working Pattern & Location Hybrid working twice a week in office; this role can be based out of Peterborough, London or Manchester.

What’s in it for you You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use. Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay. You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. And much more!

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. We welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin colour, disability. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing.

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.