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Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.Job Summary\nFreeWheel's Enterprise Architecture team partners closely with Engineering organizations to translate technology strategy, platform requirements, and operational needs into scalable platform designs and technical direction. The Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform & Infrastructure reports directly to the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture - Platform & Infrastructure and serves as a senior technical leader focused on the foundational technologies used to build, deploy, operate, and secure FreeWheel applications.We are seeking an architect with deep experience in cloud and infrastructure platforms who can develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and technology guidance that improve reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency. This architect will also connect technology spending to architecture by analyzing service consumption and efficiency and evaluating alternatives based on their impact to FreeWheel's cost structure. The role will help shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, developer tooling, observability, databases, CI/CD, secrets management, and other shared platform capabilities while enabling Platform Engineering teams to execute with consistency and speed.\nJob Description\nCore Responsibilities\nServe as a senior architecture partner to Platform Engineering and Engineering teams, providing guidance on platform and infrastructure technology decisions.\nDevelop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) supporting FreeWheel’s engineering ecosystem.\nGuide architectural direction for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, serverless technologies, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, and shared engineering services.\nPartner with Platform Engineering on the design and evolution of platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, operable, and cost-efficient.\nDefine platform guardrails, paved roads, reusable patterns, and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce unnecessary technology variation.\nApply FinOps principles to architecture decisions by analyzing current cloud and other vended technology costs, correlating Engineering spend with services and architectural patterns, assessing utilization efficiency, and identifying material cost drivers.\nEvaluate architecture and platform alternatives in terms of technical fit, operational impact, and expected effect on FreeWheel’s total cost of ownership.\nEvaluate build, buy, extend, customize, and deprecate options for infrastructure and platform technologies.\nLead architecture reviews and provide design guidance for major platform initiatives and modernization efforts.\nDevelop strategies and guidelines related to cloud governance, platform standardization, technology lifecycle management, infrastructure modernization, and systems deprecation.\nShape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture approaches, workload placement guidance, and migration strategies.\nDefine architecture patterns for observability, resilience, secrets management, identity integration, platform APIs, automation, and operational excellence.\nHelp shape the strategy, toolsets, and standard practices for utilizing AI and automation within engineering workflows, developer experience, platform operations, and architecture practices.\nExpectations\nOperate as an engineering-focused architect who balances platform standardization with product-team flexibility.\nRaise the bar on platform thinking through reusable services, shared capabilities, paved roads, and golden paths.\nLead technical design discussions and architecture reviews; drive clarity through ADRs, reference architectures, standards, and migration plans.\nBalance near-term engineering needs with long-term modernization and platform sustainability.\nGuide teams through complex technology decisions by making tradeoffs explicit and recommendations actionable.\nConnect technology decisions to financial outcomes by helping teams understand how architecture choices, platform adoption, cloud consumption, and service efficiency affect total cost of ownership.\nContribute to measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.\nMentor architects and engineers while contributing to the continued maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice.\nRespect and promote inclusion and diversity.\nExperience Needed\n10+ years in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.\nDeep experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability, databases, networking, infrastructure automation, and security-by-design.\nExperience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, hybrid-cloud, or datacenter-based platforms.\nStrong understanding of resiliency engineering, SLOs, observability, platform security, identity, and secrets management.\nExperience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and creating architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures.\nExperience applying FinOps principles to architecture and platform strategy, including cloud cost analysis, service utilization assessment, workload optimization, technology cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis.\nDemonstrated ability to correlate cloud spending with services, architectural patterns, and platform usage; identify inefficiencies; and evaluate alternatives based on their impact to cost structure.\nAbility to communicate effectively with engineers, architects, engineering managers, and senior technology leaders.\nExperience leading architecture reviews and turning ambiguous technical challenges into clear recommendations and execution plans.\nExperience in large-scale distributed environments such as AdTech, FinTech, Telecom, media technology, SaaS, or marketplace platforms.\nBonus: Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled engineering tooling, or developer productivity initiatives.\nEmployees at all levels are expected to:\nUnderstand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.\nOwn the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.\nKnow your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.\nWin as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.\nBe an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.\nDrive results and growth.\nRespect and promote inclusion & diversity.\nDo what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.\nDisclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.\nSkills\nCloud Architectures, Infrastructure Architecture, KubernetesCompensation\nVirginia Pay Range: $181,533.12 - $272,299.68This job can be performed in Illinois, and Denver Campus with a Pay Range of $165,747.63 - $272,299.68Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.\nEducation\nBachelor's DegreeWhile possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.Certifications (if applicable)\nRelevant Work Experience\n15 Years +Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. 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