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About the Role
The Global Messaging Architect will design and govern TKO’s enterprise-wide messaging and collaboration ecosystem, ensuring email, calendaring, and security platforms are reliable, secure, and scalable across all global brands. This role provides architectural leadership across M&A, divestiture, and brand migration programs, safeguarding business continuity, regulatory compliance, and executive communications.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the global messaging architecture across Exchange Online, M365, and integrated security/compliance platforms.
- Develop and enforce governance models, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent, secure, and scalable messaging services worldwide.
- Lead messaging strategy through M&A, divestiture, and rebranding initiatives, ensuring seamless coexistence and business continuity.
- Architect and oversee global mail routing, security filtering, authentication standards (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and hybrid coexistence.
- Direct engineering teams on monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization for mail and calendaring systems.
- Partner with Global Security Operations to strengthen phishing defense, vulnerability patching, and threat detection.
- Provide architectural leadership for integration with Teams, Slack, Zoom, and other collaboration tools.
- Ensure compliance with global regulations (SOX, PCI, GDPR, PIPL, HIPAA) through secure design and retention/eDiscovery controls.
- Establish architecture for journaling, litigation holds, retention, and regulatory reporting in collaboration with Legal and Compliance.
- Govern role-based administration, privileged access, and identity controls across messaging platforms.
- Act as the enterprise subject matter expert for messaging, influencing cross-functional roadmaps and vendor strategy.
- Advise executives and senior leadership on risk, cost optimization, and strategic investments in messaging and collaboration.
- Mentor engineers and administrators, raising overall team capability and ensuring adoption of best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 8+ years of experience in identity and access management, enterprise infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience leading identity architecture and delivery for large-scale, hybrid environments.
- Hands-on, expert-level proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams Online, SharePoint Online, etc.).
- Hands-on, expert-level proficiency with Google Workspace.
- Hands-on, expert-level proficiency with Okta Identity Cloud (SSO, MFA, Workflows, Lifecycle Management, Identity Governance).
- Hands-on, expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Active Directory (forest/domain design, GPOs, trusts, replication).
- Hands-on, expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD (hybrid join, conditional access, identity federation).
- Played a lead role in messaging separation or integration during complex M&A events, including domain consolidation, rebranding, and tenant-to-tenant migrations.
- Architected mail routing and coexistence between acquired/divested entities while maintaining business continuity and compliance.
- Implemented SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, and DANE across global brands to harden email security.
- Rolled out enterprise-grade anti-phishing and advanced threat protection platforms (Mimecast, Proofpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365).
- Built global monitoring and alerting frameworks for messaging health, performance, and mail flow.
Skills
- Architectural Leadership
- Extreme Ownership
- Execution-Focused
- Analytical Thinking
- Documentation Excellence
- Mentorship & Collaboration
- Communication
- Comfort with Ambiguity
- Resilience
- Customer Orientation
Location
- Stamford
- remote
Work Type
- Permanent
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience in identity and access management, enterprise infrastructure.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000 - $180,000 annually
Benefits
- Health care
- Retirement
- Vacation
- Other paid time off
- Additional offerings
About the Company
- TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization.
- TKO unites three of the most recognizable brands in global sports — UFC, WWE, and PBR — with the premier hospitality brand, OLE, and the world-class broadcast, sports, and events company, IMG, to form a next-generation technology, sports, and entertainment powerhouse.
- As TKO prepares to separate from Endeavor and build a fresh infrastructure, this is a rare opportunity to engineer core systems at scale in a greenfield environment.
- You’ll work with cutting-edge identity, cloud, and infrastructure technologies from Okta and Entra ID and enterprise automation using Workato, Service Now, Workday, and Okta Workflows.
- The challenges are complex, the expectations are high, and the impact is real. Your work will support everything from corporate operations to global broadcasts and live events.
- If you want to build something that lasts and do it with autonomy and purpose, then TKO is where you want to be.
Equal Opportunity
- TKO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding non-discrimination in employment.
- TKO makes employment decisions based on merit and qualifications, without considering an employee’s or applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under federal, state or local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities.
- TKO also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state or local laws.