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Pandora Media Inc Senior Principal Solutions Architect in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Who We Are:
SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM's vision to life every day.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM's platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company's advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.
How you'll make an impact:
Architect complete end-to-end solutions for automotive IP and satellite features in the SiriusXM + Pandora family of services. Rally and lead cross organizational efforts to implement solutions. Foster clear communications and accountability within and between teams and enable the teams to overcome obstacles. Be the champion of each feature and of execution excellence in achieving it. Be the bridge between executive management and technical implementation. Provide system security expertise in reviewing designs of automotive features.
What you'll do:
Architect complete end-to-end solutions for IP and satellite automotive features across infrastructure, IT, satellite feed, IP server and client components.
Drive and facilitate entire engineering process from concept through release to create new features in an agile process.
Guide feature ideation, conceptual design, and user story creation to support an attainable and efficient design that follows best engineering practices and makes efficient use of resources.
Identify core challenges and decisions and determine approaches and strategies to handle them. In addition to typical engineering challenges, identify security issues and threat surfaces, and approaches to ameliorating risks.
Provide technical leadership for a unique diverse matrixed organization for each feature.
Drive the feature team to solve technical and schedule problems in cooperation with the feature owner.
Communicate, evangelize, and foster participation with team members across multiple organizations, especially for larger, higher priority and bolder projects