Chief Architect

Engineering Visionary Opportunity

We are seeking an exceptional leader to establish and lead our India Technology Center as a strategic technology delivery hub for global AdTech operations. This senior technology leadership role is designed for a visionary engineering leader who will build world-class technology capabilities to support our global converged advertising platform initiatives across Linear TV and Digital, Affiliate and Scheduling ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will establish India as a center of excellence for AdTech and Linear Systems transformation engineering, driving innovation, operational support for global teams, and technical excellence while delivering mission-critical technology solutions to our global product teams. Key responsibilities include defining and executing comprehensive technology strategy for global AdTech platforms, establishing architectural standards and technical roadmaps for converged linear-digital advertising solutions.

Additionally, the successful candidate will build, lead, and scale world-class engineering teams (200+ engineers) across multiple technology stacks including backend systems, data platforms, real-time bidding, and analytics infrastructure. They will also own end-to-end delivery of technology solutions for global markets, ensuring 99.9% uptime, scalability to handle millions of ad requests, and seamless integration across platforms.

The Engineering Visionary will drive development of next-generation converged AdTech platforms, including programmatic advertising, audience targeting, real-time analytics, and cross-platform campaign management. They will establish robust DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and security frameworks to support global 24/7 operations across multiple regions.

Partnering with global product management, data science, and business stakeholders, the successful candidate will translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. They will lead development of large-scale data platforms, real-time streaming systems, and advanced analytics capabilities to process billions of advertising data points daily.

With 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience and 8+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (VP/SVP level) managing large-scale distributed systems, the ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in advertising technology platforms, including Linear systems, programmatic advertising, real-time bidding (RTB), demand-side platforms (DSP), supply-side platforms (SSP), and ad serving technologies.

They will have proven experience designing and building high-throughput, low-latency systems capable of handling millions of transactions per second with global distribution. The successful candidate will also demonstrate success building and scaling engineering organizations of 150+ engineers across multiple disciplines including backend, frontend, data engineering, DevOps, and QA.

Furthermore, they will have experience leading technology delivery for global organizations with multi-region deployments, 24/7 operations, and diverse stakeholder management. The Engineering Visionary will also possess advanced expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), microservices architecture, containerization, and modern infrastructure-as-code practices.

Strong background in big data technologies, real-time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), data warehousing, and analytics platforms handling petabyte-scale datasets is essential. The successful candidate will also have deep experience implementing agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous deployment strategies.