[Hiring] Principal Architect @Sirius XM Radio

Role Description

The Principal Architect for Subscriber Management System (SMS) will lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of core subscriber management, billing, and business feature initiatives supporting SiriusXM’s satellite and streaming subscription services. This role serves as a technical leader responsible for defining architecture strategy, guiding enterprise solution delivery, and enabling scalable business capabilities across the SMS ecosystem.

• Drive modernization, scalability, performance optimization, and integration initiatives across Oracle BRM and related enterprise systems.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic enterprise solutions.
• Create formal technical networks with key decision makers across Technology, Product, Finance, Operations, and business teams.
• Align architecture decisions with subscriber lifecycle reliability, billing accuracy, revenue enablement, customer experience, compliance, and operational resilience.
• Anticipate internal business, technology, and regulatory challenges and recommend product, platform, process, and service improvements.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of SMS applications and services across critical, enterprise-scale programs.
• Design and implement scalable, high-performance solutions using Oracle BRM and related technologies.
• Develop and enhance custom opcodes, policy opcodes, pricing configurations, and real-time rating solutions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, DevOps, Finance, and Operations.
• Drive integration initiatives with upstream and downstream systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Lead technical estimation, solution planning, and Agile delivery activities.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security compliance.
• Support production deployments, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establish and lead SMS architecture governance, design review forums, and reusable engineering standards.
• Evaluate future concepts, products, and technologies for subscriber management.
• Serve as a recognized technical authority for SMS architecture in executive-level discussions.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of enterprise software development and architecture experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 6 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience with Oracle BRM including real-time rating, pricing configuration, billing and invoicing, policy opcode modification, and custom opcode development.
• Demonstrated expertise in opcode development following best practices for memory management and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integrations, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, or modernization initiatives is a plus.
• Strong software development skills in C, SQL, Python, and Java within Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience integrating with payment processors/gateways such as Paymentech or Worldpay.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications in production environments.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and coding assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, or Codex CLI.
• Expert ability to resolve critical technical issues and broad design matters across complex enterprise platforms.
• Proven ability to exercise independent judgment and creativity in ambiguous, high-impact assignments.
• Demonstrated ability to build formal networks with key technical and business decision makers.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Benefits

• Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism, and cooperation.
• SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived characteristics protected by applicable laws.