Director – Solutions Architecture and Delivery

Who We Are:On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more. An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company.

The Role and What You’ll Do:

This is Principal Solutions Architect and Delivery leader role for the Core vertical stack, which includes our eCommerce application platform, Admin portal, Inventory, Ticketing, pricing and event management module, and integration middleware that includes several internal & 3rd party integrations.

As the Principal Solutions Architect and Delivery leader, you will help deliver the business roadmap by architecting performant, internet-scale high throughput, secure, and robust applications that comply with On Location benchmarks and industry best practices. You will operate as a crosswalk between the business and the tech, engaging with multiple business stakeholders to review and understand their requirements, then designing system architecture in alignment with those functional requirements in conjunction with non-functional requirements (e.g., scalability, performance, observability, cybersecurity, availability, etc.). You will lend your architectural expertise throughout the SDLC to business stakeholders, product managers, business analysts, engineers, cloud architects, security, and other team members in an agile fashion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mature and elevate software delivery standards by establishing processes and systems that bring best practices, modern paradigms, and architecture patterns to both internal and vendor teams
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including standups/standdowns, sprint planning, backlog grooming and refinement, retrospectives, and demos
• Lead technical solutioning, design and architecture discussions for Core systems to provide analysis and modelling of approaches that meet requirements pertaining to functionality, usability, accessibility, security, scalability, and regulatory compliance
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• Collaborate with stakeholders on capacity planning, release planning, deployments, post-deployment validations, overall status updates, post-mortems, etc.
• Contribute towards proof-of-concepts and prototype development that embrace new tools and technologies, architectural design patterns, and cloud and serverless paradigms
• Evaluate external systems and solutions through detailed analysis of their technologies, delivery methodologies, vulnerability assessments, compliance statuses, and operational support capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find opportunities to optimize and automate both workflows and quality

You Have These: 

• Extensive hands-on experience and success with architecting solutions that are scalable, secure, performant, robust, responsive, adaptive, and cost-efficient including web applications and industrial-grade enterprise systems
• Significant, expert-level hands-on experience with JavaScript (specifically, Next.js, React), .Net (ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework, WebAPI layer, Blazor, Entity Framework, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with eCommerce capabilities such as shopping carts, product catalogs, payment engines, payments processing, etc.
• Significant experience modernizing legacy applications involving architecture and technology upgrades
• Advanced business stakeholder management, at all levels across internal organization and partners
• Robust planning and organization skills with a track record delivering multiple projects & workstreams concurrently, against critical deadlines
• Proven skills and success with vendor management for different business models including augmented teams, outsourced development, and managed services for both product and operations
• Hands-on experience with modern WXPs (e.g., Webflow), CMSs (e.g., Contentful), and/or DXPs (e.g., Adobe Experience Manager, Liferay, etc.)
• Expert-level and demonstrable grasp of SSDLC, STLC, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native capabilities (e.g., EC2, ECS, RDS, VPN, VPCs, etc.). Possess a strong knowledge of cloud computing concepts, including scalability, reliability, and security.
• Networking and Security: Familiarity with networking principles, security best practices, and IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Deep technical expertise with integration patterns and full API lifecycle management
• Expertise with modern architecture tools (e.g., Cloudcraft, Miro, Lucid, etc.) to build diagrams, visualizations, flows, etc.
• In-depth understanding of what constitutes a comprehensive and mature cybersecurity readiness, including methods, tools, solutions, and infrastructure
• Solid grasp and application of modern QA practices, including QA automation and non-functional test paradigms canvassing security, accessibility, usability, regression, and performance testing
• Persistence, flexibility, empathy for end users, eagerness to learn, and decision-making skills

We’d Love If You Also Have These: 

• Previous solutions architecture experience with the eCommerce domain, preferably in an agile development team
• Deep knowledge and awareness of the latest software development trends and innovations
• Experience working in the hospitality industry
• Strong proficiency with tools like Jira, Confluence, Figma, TestRail, etc.
• Strong experience synthesizing data leveraging tools such as Amplitude, Snowflake, and Segment
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Artillery, Gatling, LoadRunner), security testing tools (e.g., Burp Suite), usability testing and accessibility testing (against WCAG and ADA variants)
• In-depth knowledge of usability principles including interaction design, user research, data analysis, etc.
• Strong presentation skills with ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science or similar
• AWS certification for Solutions Architecture

Travel: Required only for team workshops, offsites, and/or training.

How we work:

On Location is at the center of sports and entertainment and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 1-2 days per week for those who are based out of cities where there are available team offices/hubs. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Rate Minimum:

$168,750 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)

Hiring Rate Maximum:

$225,000 annually