Senior Architect

**Company Description**
We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Come work for one of the fastest growing sports tech companies in the world. Our NASDAQ-listed organization is aligned around shared passions for sports and technology and includes nearly 4,000 employees in over 30 countries.

Sportradar‘s newly founded Sports Virtualisation unit located in Bremen, Germany develops innovative and disruptive technology to enable the transition from traditional sports media consumption to new ways to engage with sports.

The latest computer vision technology is key to allow real-time rendering of statistics and virtual ads on top of broadcasts. It also enables the use of skeletal tracking data to render virtual recreations of sports events and transform the way they are experienced. Together with the top leagues and federations around the globe, we are working on our vision for a range of products to increase fan engagement for the world of tomorrow.

As Sports Virtualisation senior architect, you will be responsible for developing the architecture of the future. Working closely with the Product and Engineering teams, you will drive the building of a platform that delivers Mixed and Augmented Reality and interactive video content on a scalable, muti-region, cloud-native microservices architecture. Along the way, you will evangelize modern engineering best practices and ensure that the software developed is of the highest quality.

**MISSION**:

- Form a strong partnership with our product and engineering delivery teams
- Drive building the platform for delivering Mixed and Augmented Reality and interactive video content to sports fans across the globe
- Ensure the solution is engineered to have the appropriate software quality attributes
- Coach and mentor domain architects across the tribe
- Evangelize the widescale adoption of modern engineering best practices
- Ensure that architectural designs are modelled and documented to a high standard

**Qualifications**
- Lifetime learner, interested in understanding the technology state of the art
- Positive and inclusive communicator and collaborator
- Pragmatic practitioner, able to balance an idealized solution with real-world constraints
- Strategic thinker, able to keep the long-term goal in sight whilst delivering today’s needs
- Relevant architectural experience, with a range of items from 3D engines, e.g. Unreal 5, Unity 3D Databases, e.g., Relational, Key-value, Wide Column, Document, Graph Container hosting, e.g., Kubernetes, Functions as a Service API Design, Documentation and Evolution
- Previous programming experience with C++, C# or Java
- Service integration using Event Brokers e.g., Kafka, Rabbit MQ, NATS
- Modern engineering methods, e.g., TDD/BDD, DevOps, Domain Driven Design, Lean, Agile
- Good communication skills, self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership, self-leadership and responsibility as well as complex problem-solving skills

**Additional Information**
- Work for and shape one of the fastest-growing digital sports companies in the world at the exciting intersection of sports, media, betting and advertising.
- Be part of a highly motivated, innovative, and dynamic organization with people from more than 30 nationalities in our offices.
- A paid vacation of at least **26 days **plus the 24th & 31st of Dec., as additional days off.
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Opportunity for hybrid working.
- Company pension plan, flexible voucher card, bike leasing and other health care benefits.
- Summer events and Christmas party
- Coffee, tea, fresh fruits and water in the office
- Internal management programs according to management level: Grow / Lead Like a Pro / Sportradar e-Academy including team workshops with external trainers

**SPORTRADAR**

Sportradar is a global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content for its clients around the world. We provide cutting-edge solutions and services to media companies, bookmakers, sports federations and state authorities.

We are a truly international business employing over 3,500 people in more than 30 locations around the world. Our rapid growth has been driven by technological innovation alongside an understanding of our clients’ business needs. It is our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability that makes us the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 100 countries.

We occupy a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries. This creates an exciting and fast-moving working environment that rewards creative thinking and hard work. We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people.

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