Hybrid Architect - Remote Working in London

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for a Multimedia Architect to join our Group Technology & Data team on a 12 month fixed term contract. The Multimedia Architect role is crucial for defining and evolving the organisation's entire multimedia technology estate, including media asset management, storage, editing, and content delivery systems, ensuring that all platforms and workflows are integrated, scalable, and secure, directly aligning them with the overarching business and technology strategy. The Architect achieves this by setting technical standards, defining the roadmap for sustainable platform development, leading the technical assessment of new tools, and providing technical leadership and subject matter expertise across internal teams and external suppliers.

• Define and maintain the architecture for the multimedia technology estate, covering core platforms, workflows, integrations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Ensure platform designs meet key functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational stability.
• Support delivery teams with architectural guidance during projects, upgrades, migrations, and complex technical change.
• Define the security architecture, including data access, authorisation models, and compliance requirements, ensuring all multimedia platforms meet organisational security policies.
• Experience in architecture design within a multimedia, media, broadcast, publishing, or creative technology environment.
• Strong understanding of multimedia workflows across ingest, editing, collaboration, asset management, storage, archive, and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of integration, APIs, automation, metadata, access, and interoperability, with the ability to support practical implementation.
• Experience of cloud, hybrid, and on-premise storage environments.

We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs. You'll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; Season ticket loans are also available. You are entitled to life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance.

We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy. We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. We offer tools to help you prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform which provides tailored support for health and wellbeing. These run alongside our corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.

We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.