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.
Summary
Responsible for promoting the use of industry and Company technology standards. Monitors emerging technologies/technology practices for potential use within the Company. Designs and develops updated infrastructure in support of one or more business processes. Helps to ensure a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions. Considers business problems "end-to-end": including people, process, and technology, both within and outside the enterprise, as part of any design solution. Mentors, reviews code and verifies that the object-oriented design best practices and that coding and architectural guidelines are adhered to. Identifies and drives issues through closure. Speaks at conferences and tech meetups about Comcast technologies and assists in finding key technical positions.
This role brings to bear significant cloud experience in the private and public cloud space as well as big data and software engineering. This role will be key in the re-platforming of the CX Personalization program in support of wholesale requirements. This person will engage as part of software delivery teams and contribute to several strategic efforts that drive personalized customer experiences across product usage, support interactions and customer journeys. This role leads the building of real-time big data platforms, machine learning algorithms and data services that enable proactive responses for customers at every critical touch point.
Core Responsibilities
-Enterprise-Level architect for "Big Data" Event processing, analytics, data store, and cloud platforms.
-Enterprise-Level architect for cloud applications and "Platform as a Service" capabilities
-Detailed current-state product and requirement analysis.
-Security Architecture for "Big Data" applications and infrastructure
-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 encourage 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.
Requirements:
-Demonstrated experience with "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) architectures including strategy, architectural patterns and standards, approaches to multi-tenancy, scalability, and security.
-Demonstrated experience with schema and data governance and message metadata stores
-Demonstrated experience with public cloud resources such as AWS.
-Demonstrated experience with cloud automation technologies including Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc
-Hands-on experience with Data Flow processing engines, such as Apache NiFi
-Working knowledge / experience with Big Data platforms (Kafka, Hadoop, Storm/Spark, NoSQL, In-memory data grid)
-Working knowledge / experience with Linux, Java, Python.
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Field of Study
- Engineering, Computer Science
Years Experience
11+ years in Software Engineering Experience
4+ years in Technical Leadership roles
1+ years in Cloud Infrastructure
Compliance
Comcast is an EEO/AA/Drug Free Workplace.
Disclaimer
The above 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
Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer
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