Next League
Senior Vice President of Engineering
United States · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$325kDetected 19 hours ago
Distributed SystemsSnowflakeDatabricksVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDatadogMachine LearningdbtData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AILoad TestingLeadershipCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- This is a high-impact,hands-on senior leadership role reporting to the Chief Digital Officer.
- Qualifications - Experience designing and operating modern cloud-native platforms across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, observability, security, and infrastructure automation.
- Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and extend technical standards across Infrastructure as Code, source control discipline, CI/CD pipelines, microservices decomposition, security-by-design, and performance testing at scale.
- Guide the design and scaling of fan data and revenue platforms that deliver personalized, real-time experiences that drive revenue for our clients' audiences, ensuring a deep understanding of the codebase to effectively align with developer challenges.
- Scale Next League's production AI engineering practice across the Marketing Tech and Media Tech solutions we deliver for clients.
- Lead the design of observability and operations practices: component-level metrics, product-level evaluation, and integrated dashboards for live event monitoring.
- Collaborate with client technical leaders to define and build architecture, AI, and delivery solutions that drive outcomes aligned with their business objectives.
- Contribute technical depth and thought leadership to proposals, pitches, and discovery work, including co-authored content with cloud and platform partners.
- Represent Next League at industry conferences, partner events, and in published insights.
- The people-first, culture-driven approach puts a focus on building inclusive, curious and collaborative relationships that deliver next level digital experiences.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating modern cloud-native platforms across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, observability, security, and infrastructure automation.
- 10+ years of progressive technology leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior director or VP-level role managing and growing engineering teams.
- Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale platforms for sports, media, entertainment organizations, or similar industry.
- Hands-on experience operationalizing AI (e.g., ML, generative, agentic) in production.
- Direct experience with AI-assisted coding tools, with the ability to guide teams on best practices for adopting and operating them.
- Experience designing and scaling real-time systems where latency and accuracy are mission-critical.
- Equivalent experience with comparable technologies is welcome.
- Experience designing and operating modern cloud-native platforms across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, observability, security, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate does not need hands-on depth in every framework or vendor on the market today, but should be comfortable evaluating architectures, guiding teams, and making sound technical tradeoffs across a fast-moving ecosystem.
- Comfortable representing the firm with clients, partners, and at industry events.
- Strong familiarity with several of the following:
- Cloud infrastructure and serverless platforms
- Infrastructure as Code and environment automation.
- Real-time data pipelines, modern analytics stacks, and large-scale data warehousing.
- LLM-enabled application patterns, agentic workflows, prompt-as-code practices, and evaluation.
- Monitoring, observability, and production support.
Nice to have
- Experience working within or directly alongside professional sports organizations, tours, leagues, federations, governing bodies, broadcasters, or media rights holders, is strongly preferred.
Skills
- Lead, mentor, and grow Next League's engineering organization.
- Champion, pilot, and useAI-assisted development workflows and strong technical standards.
Compensation
- $250,000 - $325,000 USD
Benefits
- Retirement Plan Programs (with a company match!)
- Unlimited Vacation & Sick Time
- Excellent Health Benefits Packages
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are the care of our culture at Next League.
Company info
- Flexible Working Opportunities (we are a 100% remote business)
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