VP, Client Engineering and Solutions Architecture

Overview

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The Vice President of Client Engineering and Solutions Architecture (US) reports to the SVP, Converged Advertising and Linear Systems and leads 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, the VP delivers high-performance solutions that enable seamless cross-platform workflows and power WBD’s next-generation monetization strategy.

• Technical Architecture Leadership

  The VP defines and governs the architecture strategy for WBD’s U.S. ad tech, affiliate, and scheduling systems. They 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

  This role leads engineering teams in designing and delivering solutions that span advertising, affiliate, and scheduling domains. The VP ensures 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

  The VP drives the modernization of legacy ad tech, affiliate, and scheduling systems, advancing migrations to cloud-native, modular architectures. They 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

  The VP acts 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

  This executive establishes governance and KPIs across ad tech, affiliate, and scheduling platforms to track reliability, latency, and delivery performance. They 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.

• Engineering Leadership
  : 10+ years of senior engineering leadership in media or technology, with proven ability to architect, scale, and modernize complex ad tech, affiliate, and scheduling systems.
• Ad Tech Systems Expertise
  : 5+ years 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
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  Demonstrated success in solution architecture, API frameworks, data pipelines, cloud-native design, and modernization of legacy platforms into modular, scalable systems.
• Software Engineering Practices
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  Deep knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including Agile, Dev Ops, CI/CD automation, test automation,…