Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to work on large and complex AdTech solutions touching multiple systems. Sky is moving more of these systems to the public cloud so you will help plan these migrations while still delivering new and innovative products across multiple roadmaps.

What you’ll do:

• Engage with business stakeholders at the vision stage to inform how technology can meet or exceed the business challenge.
• Create and deliver innovative end-to-end solution designs that are cloud-first, secure, resilient, scalable and meets the business requirements in terms of RPO and RTO
• Engage in working groups (TDAs, TDBs) forums as requested to represent AdTech
• Collaborate with other technology teams within Sky to define common solution to Group technology needs
• Build strong relationships with team members and cross functional teams within Sky
• Collaborate with Adtech Agile delivery teams

What you’ll bring:

• Experience designing systems and architecture patterns in an organisation
• Experience of working in an agile development environment, with multiple cross-functional teams
• Experience communicating with technical and business audiences
• Strong communication and collaborative skills
• Bouns – Experience defining E2E architectures related to Advertising Media e.g Adservers, sales systems and content workflows
• Bonus -(Advantageous) – Experience working on solutions that involve DSPs and SSPs
• Experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect or Principal Engineer and the ability to articulate architecture approaches and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences alike

Department overview:

We’re the Product Hub. We’re the team behind your favourite Sky products, and the platforms that power them. We make every moment magical, everywhere. Our team is made up of self-motivated, big thinkers who have a knack for solving problems and find new ways to captivate millions of customers by putting them at the heart of everything we do. From Sky Glass, Sky Q, Peacock and NOW to news and sports apps, we make entertainment even better and we can’t wait to get started on what’s next.

Product Delivery

Want to deliver brilliant products and unmissable entertainment that grips millions of households? Our 1000 strong, Product Delivery team does everything from developing innovative AI technology to creating the best HDR viewing experience for TV products. From Sky Go to Sky Q & Sky Glass, we take our products to the next level and make them more agile and reliable with every release

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.