Director Of Client Engineering & Solutions Architecture, International

Job Description

As the Director of Client Engineering and Solutions Architecture International, you will report to the SVP Converged Advertising and Linear Systems and will lead the engineering architecture function for WBD's advertising, affiliate and scheduling platforms. This role owns solution design, systems integration and technical execution, ensuring platforms are cloud-native, secure and interoperable across linear and digital environments. By driving API frameworks, data pipelines and modernization of legacy systems, you will deliver high-performance solutions that enable seamless cross-platform workflows and power WBD's next-generation monetization strategy.
Your Role Accountabilities:
Technical Architecture Leadership
• Define and govern the architecture strategy for WBD's US ad tech, affiliate and scheduling systems. Establish blueprints, API frameworks and data integration models that ensure scalability, security and interoperability across converged advertising platforms while modernizing affiliate distribution and scheduling capabilities.
Client Engineering Execution
• Lead engineering teams in designing and delivering solutions that span advertising, affiliate and scheduling domains. Ensure business and product requirements are translated into technical blueprints, integrating order management, ad decisioning, trafficking, billing, affiliate systems and scheduling workflows into a unified ecosystem.
Platform Modernization and Rationalization
• Drive the modernization of legacy ad tech, affiliate and scheduling systems, advancing migrations to cloud-native, modular architectures. Oversee rationalization to eliminate redundancy, improve cost efficiency and embed CI/CD automation, observability and performance optimization into engineering practices across all platforms.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Alignment
• Act as a strategic bridge between business and technology, partnering with product, sales, operations, affiliate distribution and scheduling teams. They ensure system architecture supports monetization strategies, operational efficiency and long-term business objectives, while aligning with industry standards and evolving market trends.
Engineering Governance and Performance
• Establish governance and KPIs across ad tech, affiliate and scheduling platforms to track reliability, latency and delivery performance. Ensure engineering execution meets enterprise standards for security, resiliency and compliance, guaranteeing that WBD's technology foundation is optimized to support advertising, affiliate and scheduling business growth.

Qualifications & Experience:
• Engineering Leadership: Extensive senior engineering leadership experience in media or technology, with proven ability to architect, scale and modernize complex ad tech, affiliate and scheduling systems.
• Ad Tech Systems Expertise: Proven expertise in media and entertainment with hands-on experience in linear and digital ad sales platforms, order management, ad decisioning, trafficking, billing and cross-platform integration.
• Architecture & Modernization: Demonstrated success in solution architecture, API frameworks, data pipelines, cloud-native design and modernization of legacy platforms into modular, scalable systems.
• Software Engineering Practices: Deep knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including Agile, DevOps, CI/CD automation, test automation, observability and performance optimization at scale.
• Systems Integration: Expertise in unifying disparate technologies through standardized data flows, service-oriented architectures and microservices, ensuring interoperability and resiliency across business-critical platforms.
• Engineering ROI & Scalability: Skilled in cost modeling, performance benchmarking and technical ROI analysis to prioritize engineering investments that maximize efficiency, reduce redundancy and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Technical Communication & Stakeholder Influence: Adept at presenting complex engineering strategies to senior executives, collaborating with product, sales and operations and influencing decisions with clear technical rationale.
• Industry & Technology Fluency: Deep awareness of emerging trends in ad tech, programmatic, identity resolution, scheduling systems and cloud engineering; ability to translate industry innovations into actionable technical strategies.
• Collaboration & Vendor Management: Experienced in managing vendor platforms, third-party integrations and large-scale engineering partnerships to accelerate solution delivery.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical experience required; advanced technical certifications in cloud or architecture preferred.

Additional Information:
On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here.
Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world's premier entertainment brands.
Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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