Director, Enterprise Architecture, Platform & Infrastructure

Comcast

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Reston, VANew York, NYChicago, ILEnglewood, CO
Salary
$178,798–$268,198 / yr
Posted
67 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Similar $235k
This role $223k
$166k most similar roles pay here $301k

This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $196,187–$273,355 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $223k versus about $235k for comparable roles.

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Comcast is an American telecommunications and media conglomerate, providing cable TV, internet, and phone services under the Xfinity brand, and owning NBCUniversal.

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TL;DR · Director, Enterprise Architecture, Platform & Infrastructure

Director, Enterprise Architecture – Platform & Infrastructure leads the Platform Architecture team to define long-range strategy, standards, and governance for infrastructure and shared platform capabilities. This role involves managing a team of architects to oversee cloud and datacenter infrastructure, Kubernetes and container platforms, compute, storage, networking, databases, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, and identity integration. The leader serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership while driving modernization efforts to reduce technology fragmentation and improve operational resilience. Key responsibilities include establishing reference architectures, managing multi-cloud strategies, and implementing FinOps practices for cost efficiency. Candidates must possess expertise in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure automation, and high-scale distributed systems. The role focuses on creating "paved roads" and "golden paths" to enhance developer productivity within a complex, data-intensive advertising technology environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead and manage a team of Enterprise Architects focused on platform, infrastructure, and shared engineering capabilities.
  • Define the long-range architecture strategy, standards, governance, and roadmaps for cloud and datacenter infrastructure.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership to shape the enterprise architecture agenda and priorities.
  • Establish architectural direction for Kubernetes, networking, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
  • Drive platform modernization initiatives to reduce technology fragmentation and improve operational resilience.
  • Define "paved roads" and "golden paths" to increase developer productivity while ensuring security and consistency.
  • Partner with Security and Finance teams to integrate secure-by-design principles and FinOps cost-management practices.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and manage the lifecycle of infrastructure components through build, buy, or retire decisions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure/platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience managing architects and other senior technical contributors.
  • Experience defining architecture strategy and roadmaps for large-scale distributed systems and multi-cloud environments.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, serverless platforms, networking, storage, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Expertise in infrastructure automation, observability, security-by-design, and platform lifecycle management.
  • Experience establishing architecture governance, standards, and technology decision frameworks across multiple business domains.
  • Proficiency in FinOps, cost-aware architecture, and managing cloud spend for large-scale systems.

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