Senior Media Architecture & Platform Designer

SES S.A Brazil; Ellenwood (GA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

SES S.A Brazil is seeking a Principal Media Architect/Analyst to lead the design and delivery of scalable media architecture across platforms. You will translate product and business needs into robust technical solutions, adhering to established standards and reference architectures.

In collaboration with senior leaders, you will drive architecture decisions, assess dependencies, and ensure operational readiness, documenting rationale and facilitating risk-aware choices for complex media

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline.
• At least five years designing and supporting media or content-distribution systems.
• Experience creating high-level designs and reference architectures.
• Strong knowledge of architecture principles and service lifecycles.
• Ability to translate product requirements into realizable solutions.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20–25%.

Responsibilities

• Apply and maintain approved reference architectures and standardized design patterns for media platforms and services.
• Translate product capabilities, customer requirements, service definitions, and commercial commitments into scalable designs.
• Develop high-level designs, logical signal flows, system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, and resiliency approaches.
• Collaborate with Product, Commercial, Planning, and Engineering to align with platform capabilities and identify gaps.
• Coordinate technical inputs across multiple teams; elevate design conflicts or unresolved decisions.
• Support planning with feasibility assessments and ensure compliance with architecture standards.
• Participate in design reviews, document decisions, and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Develop implementation-ready designs and ensure alignment with approved designs.
• Support operational readiness with documentation, handover deliverables, and traceability.
• Contribute to transformation initiatives and updates to architecture standards.

Skills

Architecture design

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

CMDB integration

Monitoring platforms

Job description

SES S.A Brazil is seeking a Principal Media Architect/Analyst to lead the design and delivery of scalable media architecture across platforms. You will translate product and business needs into robust technical solutions, adhering to established standards and reference architectures.

In collaboration with senior leaders, you will drive architecture decisions, assess dependencies, and ensure operational readiness, documenting rationale and facilitating risk-aware choices for complex media