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JOB TITLE: Senior Director of AdTech Architecture – FreeWheel
The Senior Director of AdTech Architecture – FreeWheel leads a team of Enterprise Architects within the Enterprise Architecture team to support the company's product portfolio. This leader translates business strategy and market opportunities into scalable product architectures and engineering roadmaps. Key responsibilities include establishing architecture governance, defining vision, and overseeing solution blueprints for distributed, cloud-native systems. The role requires managing technical direction for ad serving, SSP, DSP, audience/identity, measurement, and data platforms. Candidates must possess expertise in microservices, Kubernetes, APIs, event-driven systems, and generative AI. The position solves complex problems regarding platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and cost-efficient scaling within the digital advertising ecosystem. Success involves balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability, security, and privacy across global ad technology platforms.
Lead and manage a team of Enterprise Architects to support FreeWheel’s AdTech product portfolio.
Define the enterprise architecture vision, operating model, and engagement approach to align with business outcomes.
Serve as a strategic technology advisor to Product and Engineering leadership on investment recommendations and market opportunities.
Oversee the creation of solution blueprints, reference architectures, and target-state designs to improve portfolio consistency.
Establish and manage architecture governance mechanisms, including design reviews, standards management, and exception handling.
Guide the architectural direction for distributed, cloud-native systems including ad serving, APIs, and data platforms.
Shape portfolio-level roadmaps to reduce technical debt and create reusable "paved roads" for engineering teams.
Evaluate build, buy, extend, and retire decisions based on business value, risk, and total cost of ownership.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, or enterprise architecture for distributed, high-scale platforms.
10+ years of people leadership experience managing senior architects, principal engineers, or comparable senior technical individual contributors.
Strong knowledge of modern cloud-native architecture, including microservices, Kubernetes, APIs, event-driven systems, and security-by-design.
Experience establishing architecture governance, decision frameworks, standards, and review processes across multiple teams.
Proven ability to lead architectural direction for complex data-intensive and transaction-oriented systems with high requirements for performance and scale.
Experience in AdTech, MarTech, or media technology, including familiarity with ad serving and programmatic workflows (preferred).
Experience with architecture patterns for generative AI, RAG, and agentic AI (preferred).
Kubernetes
Go
Java
Scala
Kafka
gRPC
REST
NoSQL
OpenTelemetry
OAuth
OIDC
Cloud-Native
Microservices
Service Mesh
FinOps
Data Mesh
API Management
Infrastructure as Code
Data Architecture
Data Modeling
Medallion Architecture
AI
Automation
Solution Architecture
CI/CD
Data Engineering
data/analytics
DataOps
Product Integration