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Live Nation Principal Enterprise Architect in United States
Job Summary:
Location: London or UK, Remote
Division: Technology
Line Manager: Chief Architect
Contract Terms: Full Time (permanent)
THE TEAM
Enterprise Architecture owns the high-level architecture of Ticketmaster’s technology landscape, driving an overall vision and technical choices. We collaborate closely with teams across the business, ensuring they can relate their work to our long-term strategic goals.
THE JOB
The Ticketmaster platforms and services enable fans around the world to access tickets and events 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Every large event on-sale and entry is a Black Friday for us. Working at this scale ensures that even the most innovative person will be consistently challenged and presented with opportunities.
As Principal Architect, you will perform an essential role within Ticketmaster’s Enterprise Architecture team, setting direction and approach in how we design, build, and evolve a scalable and maintainable portfolio of solutions. You will promote consistent architectural best practices, ensuring teams can meet and adapt to the challenges and objectives faced by Ticketmaster.
A Principal Architect is expected to define and contribute toward wider Enterprise Architecture initiatives, provide guidance, and highlight changes required through the development lifecycle. You are expected to stay relevant in technology and be responsible for the direction given at all stages.
You will build a strong network with peers and subject matter experts to guide and support an ongoing, holistic Technology and Product strategy aligned with Business goals. You will work and negotiate with delivery teams to ensure solutions provide value and work flexibly within constraints imposed by time, budget, interoperability, feature, and technology maturity.
As a global company travel will be required on an as-needed basis.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Leading technical, cross-functional assessments for new and ongoing initiatives and programs of work.
Understanding the details behind solutions and effectively communicating to stakeholders and third parties.
Assisting the business in understanding technology/alignment opportunities and risks, presenting possible solutions for achieving or mitigating them.
Identifying dependency chains and efficiency gains in strategic plans.
Defining clear domain boundaries and responsibilities, considering impact and demands on the organizational structure.
Ratifying new business cases, sizing/prioritization of initiatives and resourcing of work into the technical organization.
Supporting investment prioritization of technical roadmap items and capabilities.
Tracking and advocating best reuse of technology at a global level, identifying opportunities for practical consolidation.
Providing guidance on embedding acquired technology into the Ticketmaster landscape, advising on the optimal balance between migration, consolidation, continuation, and reuse.
Raising the bar on software quality - reliability, security, performance, usability - through development and advocacy of architectural best practices.
Defining the alignment of architecture within the overall SDLC process.
Authoring technical articles or white papers based on experience to advocate our use of practices, technology, and skills.
Staying current in the technology landscape, disseminating information, and identifying practical applications of emerging technologies and approaches.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)
A solid understanding of the principles, practices and techniques of Enterprise Architecture and Domain Driven Design.
Proven experience with a broad base of architectural patterns and technologies, with the ability to select & design around the most effective combinations to meet business needs.
Experience with analysis of functional and non-functional requirements, estimation of engineering effort and detailed appraisals of technical solutions.
Experience with domain modelling, analysis and mapping to business capabilities and applications.
Expertise with software used to create clear strategic/architectural documentation and assets.
Familiarity with high-availability and resilience engineering patterns, secure design principles and threat modelling.
Foundational knowledge of software development lifecycles, automation, application monitoring and management.
YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS)
A successful candidate will be an independent self-starter with strong collaborative skills. Detail-oriented, adaptable, curious, positive and objective.
Business acumen - Create effective designs and policies, aligned with strategic needs of the organization and considering opportunities, risks and uncertainties.
Communication skills - Make complex, technical information and language simple and accessible. Listen and interpret the needs of business and technical stakeholders and manage expectations.
Partnership skills - Building relationships and leading through influence. Support, host and mediate difficult discussions with subject matter experts and stakeholders, solving and unblocking issues at all levels.
Interpersonal skills – Lead with self-awareness and empathy, inspiring other architects, helping them to understand how to meet organizational goals.
Presentation skills – Maintain a professional presence, confident and methodical, creating clear, well-understood analysis, reports and solution designs that can be acted upon.
Analytical and numerical skills - Undertake data profiling and analysis, deriving accurate insights from large volumes data with complex relationships.
Critical thinking and problem-solving skills - anticipate and mitigate against problems at the right time, able to understand and articulate how the issue fits and impacts the larger picture.
LIFE AT TICKETMASTER
We are proud to be a part of Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest live entertainment company.
Our vision at Ticketmaster is to connect people around the world to the live events they love. As the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the leading global provider of enterprise tools and services for the live entertainment business, we are uniquely positioned to successfully deliver on that vision.
We do it all with an intense passion for Live and an inspiring and diverse culture driven by accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams. If you’re passionate about live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.
Our work is guided by our values:
Reliability - We understand that fans and clients rely on us to power their live event experiences, and we rely on each other to make it happen.
Teamwork - We believe individual achievement pales in comparison to the level of success that can be achieved by a team
Integrity - We are committed to the highest moral and ethical standards on behalf of the countless partners and stakeholders we represent
Belonging - We are committed to building a culture in which all people can be their authentic selves, have an equal voice and opportunities to thrive
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
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About Us
Recognized three years in a row by Great Place to Work® and named one of People Magazine’s top 50 Companies that Care, Live Nation Entertainment is the global leader in live entertainment and ticketing. Our world-class portfolio reaches all aspects of the live event and ticketing industry, from ground-breaking software in Ticketmaster, mix of legendary venues and restaurants in House of Blues, production leaders in Concerts, exceptional brand partnerships in Media & Sponsorship, and unparalleled team of artist managers in Artist Nation supported by diverse professionals in all facets of Corporate operations.
We recognize that our most important assets are our employees, the rock stars who keep the live experience going. Generous vacation, healthcare, and retirement benefits are just some of the great perks we offer to support our global workforce of more than 38,000. For any stage in your career, our many unique benefit programs are designed to help you live life to the fullest. We offer student loan repayment to support recent grads, six months of paid caregiver leave to support new parents, perks like Roadie Babies (bring your little ones & a caretaker along with you on work trips) and Music @ Home (stipend to cultivate your little ones’ music interest), and tuition reimbursement to fuel your ongoing professional development. Plus, working for the world's largest live event and ticketing company means you'll have access to free concerts, festivals, sports games, and more through our exclusive employee ticket concierge.
There is no bigger stage for your career. See what your future looks like at Live Nation Entertainment.