Job Description

Join Sky's Content, Broadcast & Platforms team (CBP) to lead architecture of the services and platform that power Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. This newly created role is defined to unify architecture teams across live production, origination, distribution and our non-linear content supply chain into one team. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
Overview
Content, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) is part of Comcast and Sky's Global Product Hub, responsible for delivering Sky content and services to customers everywhere via reliable, scalable, and innovative platforms. You will own the architectural vision, principles, and design standards that govern CT&I's technology ecosystem--ensuring every product and system is built on a consistent, secure, and future?proof foundation.
Reporting to the Group Director of Content, Broadcast and Platforms, this is a senior technology architecture leadership role with accountability across all Sky markets. You will define the target architecture and investment priorities, lead governance forums, approve architectural exceptions, and sponsor system lifecycle decisions, including end-of-life. This role shapes multi-million-pound technology spend and risk, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. You will lead and inspire a distributed team of 50+ architects and solution designers across the UK, DACH, and Italy, embedding robust standards, reusable reference patterns, and delivering a unified architectural roadmap that spans platforms, data, integration, and security--enabling Sky's content and broadcast innovation at scale.
You will be responsible for the end-to-end architecture underpinning services within Content, Broadcast & Platforms for our key stakeholders Sky Sports, Sky News, Sky Studios, Sky Creative, Global Product, and our broader content ecosystem including live production, rights, planning & scheduling, media management, origination, video-on-demand (VOD) and distribution. By consolidating ownership of architecture, you will accelerate delivery, improve quality, reduce risk, and drive cost efficiency through reuse and rationalisation.
The Role
You will define what should be built in full alignment with Director of CBP Planning & Delivery. You will ensure all teams embed security by design and ensure architectural alignment across services and platforms. You will lead the creation of a unified architectural strategy that consolidates dispersed teams, establishes clear governance, and drives consistency across platforms, data, integration, and security. This role will influence critical buy/build decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness while shaping the roadmaps of our primary News, Sports, Entertainment, and Product customers.
You will work in close partnership with Strategy & Delivery, Platforms, and Engineering to ensure that architectural recommendations are not only designed but implemented effectively. Acting as a key collaborator with the CT&I innovation team, you will identify emerging technologies, sponsor experiments, and take ownership of integrating successful innovations into the wider technology stack. This is a mission-critical role that transforms architecture from an advisory function into a proactive force for innovation, accountability, and execution--creating a future-fit content delivery capability at Group scale.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership and Team Management:

• Inspire the architecture teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to develop technical and leadership capabilities within the team.
• Build a diverse and inclusive team culture that supports career growth and innovation.
• Lead succession planning and talent pipeline development.

Strategy

• Define and drive the architectural strategy for content, broadcast & platforms across Sky.
• Present concepts and own end to end strategic presentations.

Architecture Ownership:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for:

• Live and post-production systems for Sky Sports, News, and Creative.
• Origination and distribution platforms for linear and digital services
• Rights, planning and scheduling systems.
• Content supply chain, including media asset management and VOD workflows.
• Software architecture across media platforms, ensuring modularity, scalability, and maintainability.
• Embed security by design principles across all architectural decisions and implementations.

Product Collaboration

• Partner closely with global product organisations to align technology architecture with product strategy.
• Support product discovery practices, enabling rapid experimentation and validation.
• Translate product requirements into scalable and resilient technical solutions.

Innovation & Transformation

• Champion cloud-native, software-defined, and data-driven architectures.
• Drive modernisation of legacy systems and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Promote the use of data and analytics to inform architectural decisions and operational efficiency.

Governance & Standards

• Establish and enforce architectural standards, principles, and best practices.
• Lead architectural governance forums and technical design reviews.
• Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all teams follow consistent working practises to design, document and transition work throughout the organisation.

Team Development

• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to develop technical and leadership capabilities within the team.
• Build a diverse and inclusive team culture that supports career growth and innovation.

What you'll bring:

• Solid experience with a technology leadership background in an architecture function with strong relevant industry experience motivating cross-functional teams to deliver innovative technology solutions.
• Strong background in software architecture and engineering best practices.
• Proven experience in leading large-scale multi domain media engineering teams or architecture teams (ideally 30+ people) within a media organisation.
• Deep expertise in media technology, including live and post-production, playout, distribution, and content supply chain systems
• Proven ability to translate complex concepts and architecture into easy to understand laymen exec presentations
• Communication is key and a strong background in building and driving consensus, influencing and managing stakeholders and the ability to operate at multiple levels with a variety of actors from senior business managers to engineering groups will be essential.
• Experience embedding security by design in complex systems.
• Familiarity with agile product organisations and product discovery methodologies.
• Strong understanding of broadcast and IP-based media workflows.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern software architectures (microservices, APIs, CI/CD).
• Data-literate, with experience in using data to drive workflows
• An interest in the intersection of technology, operations, and business.
• Commercial awareness and strong market understanding of trends and challenges within the industry is a must and this candidate will have proven experience working on business cases and establishing strong justifications for change.
• Knowledge of Product Road-mapping tools and their use to evangelise strategy. Specific knowledge of Aha! would be considered and added advantage.
• Astute in the influencing factors of financial investments, procurement and contractual negotiation.
• Culturally fluent and able to engage people from a range of backgrounds.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency in architectural software and design principles.
• Ability to mentor and develop team members.

The Rewards
Sky offers a great range of rewards including Sky Q, generous pension, private healthcare, and discounted mobile and broadband plus a wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences.
Where You'll Work
Osterley - Our campus offers restaurants, gym, cinema, and more. Flexible working is supported, with some travel to Europe and the USA required.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Diversity
We work hard to be an inclusive employer so everyone at Sky can be their best. Adjustments to the recruitment process are available upon request.
We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
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