Senior Director, Data Architecture, Engineering and Platforms

Bauer Media Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holidays

Bank holidays & 2 volunteer days

Bauer Academy

Flexible working

Job summary

Bauer Media Group is seeking a Senior Director, Data Architecture, Data Engineering & Platforms to shape the future of data across its Audio business and the wider Group. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on guidance to build scalable, secure data capabilities that empower teams across multiple divisions.

You will lead technical vision, governance and modernization efforts while collaborating with business and technology leaders to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership across data architecture, engineering and cloud data platforms.
• Experience building and leading high‑performing technical teams.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align across a federated organisation.
• Comfort operating through ambiguity and making complex decisions.
• Experience modernising large data estates including migrations and decommissioning.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the data architecture, strategy and transformation roadmap for Bauer Media Group.
• Build and develop architecture, engineering and platform capability.
• Lead Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams.
• Establish governance, data quality, lineage, observability and architecture assurance.
• Lead data platform modernisation initiatives including migration and decommissioning.
• Partner with Enterprise Technology, Enterprise Architecture, AI teams and business stakeholders.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Engineering

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Data governance

Job description

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You will join our Group Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) leadership team, helping shape the future of data across our Audio business and the wider Group. Our model is deliberately federated: expertise remains close to the businesses and functions, while Group DDS provides the shared architecture, platforms, standards and specialist capability needed to operate effectively at scale.

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You will join our Group Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) leadership team, helping shape the future of data across our Audio business and the wider Group. Our model is deliberately federated: expertise remains close to the businesses and functions, while Group DDS provides the shared architecture, platforms, standards and specialist capability needed to operate effectively at scale.

Our team brings together expertise across Data Architecture, Engineering, Analytics, Product & Delivery, Data Science and Transformation. Together, we are building trusted, secure and scalable data capabilities that empower teams across Audio, Publishing, Outdoor and central business functions to deliver greater value through data.

The Difference You Will Make

This is a newly created leadership opportunity that will play a pivotal role in expanding Bauer Media Group's data capability across the organisation. You will lead the technical vision for our data estate, ensuring that our architecture, platforms and engineering practices support long-term growth, innovation and operational excellence.

As Senior Director, Data Architecture, Data Engineering & Platforms, you will provide credible, strategic leadership and set Group direction while remaining close enough to technology to challenge designs, guide decision-making and support high-performing technical teams.

Your Role

You will work across all lines of business, markets and central functions, partnering with their business, data and technical leaders, to establish shared foundations and technical standards whilst preserving local expertise.

• Defining and evolving the data architecture, technical strategy and transformation roadmap for the wider Bauer Media Group.
• Building and developing architecture, engineering and platform capability.
• Leading Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams.
• Establishing technical governance, data quality, lineage, observability, governance and architecture assurance.
• Leading data platform modernisation initiatives including migration, simplification and legacy decommissioning.
• Partnering with Enterprise Technology, Enterprise Architecture, AI teams and business stakeholders.

The Skills You Will Bring

• Significant leadership experience across Data Architecture, Data Engineering and cloud data platforms at scale.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing technical teams.
• Ability to influence senior business and technical stakeholders and create alignment across a federated organisation.
• Comfortable operating through ambiguity and taking ownership of complex decisions.
• Experience modernising complex data estates including migration and legacy decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of data & analytics engineering, integration modelling, data quality and platform operations.
• Experience working in complex organisations across multiple business units and markets.

Working Pattern/Location

Hybrid working from our London office with regular collaboration across Bauer Media Group teams and stakeholders. European travel will be required.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors.

With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe's largest Publishers. From women's and celebrities' magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print.

But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal.

Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What's In It For You

• You'll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You'll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail]

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email [e-mail] we would love to hear from you.