Cloud Solutions Architect
Company: Comcast
Location: Philadelphia
Posted on: March 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Comcast's Technology, Product & Experience organization works at
the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are
continually developing and delivering products that transform the
customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features
such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to
make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of
building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and
accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and
supports our evolving network architecture, including
next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure
and engineering, network integration and management tools, and
technical standards. Because our employees are our most valuable
asset, we offer a flexible working environment to balance the need
to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require
collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside
inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding
suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N.
Virginia).
Job Summary
Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive
innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online
experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety
of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career
opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We
are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks
to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and
services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share
in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries
and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want
you to fast-forward your career at Comcast. We are currently
seeking a Principal Architect in the Xfinity Solutions Architecture
team with experience in cloud platforms and video streaming to
enable and improve our products and platforms propelling our video
streaming and aggregation businesses. As an architect in the XSA
team, you will proactively lead the collaboration and engagement
with engineering teams to deliver cutting edge and innovative
solutions based on architectural best practices and drive the
solution roadmap You will work with other architects, product
management, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to build
technical full-stack solutions around all aspects of our platform,
including content metadata and discovery, application management
and aggregation, monetization, and advertising. On any given day
you will be crafting and documenting architectures for new
features, products, and processes; socializing and promoting those
architectures, design patterns, and best practices; Taking product
ideas from Product Management and adding architectural guidance to
distill requirements, leverage existing systems across domains, and
generally help bring those ideas to life; Discovering, researching,
and presenting new technologies that will enhance and improve new
and existing systems; Helping balance the needs of Engineering,
Product, and Management to deliver cutting-edge and innovative
products to the tens of millions of customers using our platform
across Comcast, our subsidiaries, and our syndication partners.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
Ensures programs are envisioned, designed, developed and
implemented across the enterprise to meet business needs.
Collaborate with the enterprise architecture team and other
functional areas to ensure that most efficient solution is designed
to meet business needs.
Ensures solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable and
delivered on schedule. Develops, documents and ensures compliance
with best practices including but not limited to the following
coding standards, object oriented design, platform and framework
specific design concerns and human interface guidelines.
Tracks and documents requirements for enterprise development
projects and enhancements.
Monitors current and future trends, technology and information that
will positively affect organizational projects. Mentors team
members in relevant technologies and implementation
architecture.
Contributes to the overall system implementation strategy for the
enterprise and participates in appropriate forums, meetings,
presentations etc. to meet goals.
Gathers and understands client needs, finding key areas where
technology leverage is possible to improve business processes,
defines architectural approaches and develops technology proofs.
Communicates's technology direction.
Supervises the project lifecycle from intake through delivery.
Ensures the entire solution design is complete and consistent from
the beginning and seeks to remove as much re-work as possible.
Works with product marketing to define requirements. Develops and
communicates system/subsystem architecture. Develops clear system
requirements for component subsystems.
Acts as architectural lead on project.
Applies new and innovative ideas to old or new problems. Fosters
environments that encourages innovation. Contributes to and
supports effort to further build intellectual property via
patents.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in
matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Ability to work nights
and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as vital.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Additional Job Description
Acts as an SME within the XSA team and other functional areas to
propose the most efficient solution. Presents solutions to other
architects, product, engineering, and management.
Acts with an owner-mindset and represents multiple platforms and
systems to stakeholders such as the business, legal, and external
partner companies
Keeps abreast of current and future trends, technology and
information that will positively affect organizational projects.
Applies and integrates emerging technologies and patterns to new
and existing systems architecture where appropriate.
Leads development of solution architecture (both tactical and
strategic) to advance the company's products, services, systems,
and technologies.
Leads in the planning and design of new or upgraded systems.
Interacts with departments to implement improvements in
process.
Mentoring in relevant technologies and architecture patterns.
Develops, documents and ensures compliance with best practices
including but not limited to the following: coding standards,
object- oriented designs, cloud-delivery patterns, platform and
framework specific design concerns, and human interface
guidelines.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for
how you do your job.
Lead the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our
customers first, give them flawless digital options at every
touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and
services.
Know your stuff - be hard-working learners, users and advocates of
our groundbreaking technology, products and services, especially
our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and
being open to new insights!
Be 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.
Get results and growth!
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our
communities.
Disclaimer:
Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will
consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to
race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other
basis protected by applicable law.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While 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.
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +
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. 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
(https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers
site for more details.
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