Architect 5, Software Architecture at Comcast (Mount Laurel, NJ)

Comcast's Technology & Product 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.

Job Summary:
Comcast is looking for a solution architect to help architect, design and help develop custom solutions on reactive platform. This person must have ability to partner with business counterparts and cross domain teams to create cohesive architecture and applications. This person would have very good functional and object-oriented domain modeling capabilities and strong hands on experience in Scala. This person should have experience in many of the following technologies; Akka, Play, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, MongoDB, Java, JavaScript, Python.

Core Responsibilities:
- Ensures programs are envisioned, designed, developed, and implemented
across the enterprise to meet business needs. Interfaces 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; applies and integrates
emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture.
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
technology direction.
- Monitors the project lifecycle from intake through delivery. Ensures
the entire solution design is complete and consistent from the start 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. Must be able to work
nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Specification:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
- Engineering, Computer Science
- 3-4 years' experience working in Scala
- Generally requires 8+ years related experience

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

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