Senior Principal Media Architect - Platform Standards

SES Satellites; Ellenwood (GA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

SES Satellites in Ellenwood, GA seeks a Senior Principal Media Architect/Analyst to define, maintain, and evolve architectural frameworks for media services, translating product requirements into scalable, implementable solutions.

You will lead engineers, drive standardization and governance, and collaborate with Product, Planning, and Operations to ensure reliability and operational readiness across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience designing, integrating, implementing, or supporting complex media/broadcast systems.
• Experience creating high-level designs, reference architectures, system diagrams, signal flows, and implementation requirements.
• Experience translating product or business requirements into technically realizable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and evolve reusable reference architectures and target-state architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews and govern compliance with standards.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to align roadmaps with platform capabilities.
• Coordinate requirements across multiple teams early in the service lifecycle.
• Provide implementation-ready architectural direction and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture governance

End-to-end architectures

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Advanced degree in engineering/CS/architecture

Tools

CMDB integration

Media monitoring

Job description

SES Satellites in Ellenwood, GA seeks a Senior Principal Media Architect/Analyst to define, maintain, and evolve architectural frameworks for media services, translating product requirements into scalable, implementable solutions.

You will lead engineers, drive standardization and governance, and collaborate with Product, Planning, and Operations to ensure reliability and operational readiness across platforms.