Senior Vice President of Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Operating Model
  • Lead, mentor, and grow Next League’s engineering organization.
  • Pilot and use AI-assisted development workflows and strong technical standards.
  • 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.
  • Ensure resilient and scalable delivery for live sporting events and other business-critical client environments by stepping in to pair-program, architect, and debug alongside the team during critical delivery windows.
• AI, Data & Platform Innovation
  • Guide the design and scaling of fan data and revenue platforms that deliver personalized, real-time experiences that drive revenue for our clients’ audiences.
  • 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.
• Client Partnership & Executive Engagement
  • 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.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating modern cloud-native platforms across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, observability, security, and infrastructure automation.
• 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.
• Comfortable representing the firm with clients, partners, and at industry events.
• Experience working within or directly alongside professional sports organizations, tours, leagues, federations, governing bodies, broadcasters, or media rights holders, is strongly preferred.
• 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; Personalization, decisioning, and intelligent automation in client marketing and media technology products.
• Equivalent experience with comparable technologies is welcome.

Leadership Attributes

• Collaborative, people-first leader who invests in the growth of individuals and teams through mentoring and coaching.
• Strategic thinker with a bias for action who is energized by fast-moving, AI-driven environments.
• Intellectually curious and externally visible; comfortable sharing technical thought leadership through writing, conference presentations, and partner co-authorship.
• Mission-aligned with Next League’s commitment to diversity, mentorship, and social impact.

Travel Requirements

This position is expected to travel to Next League office and client sites as needed.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.