Principal AdTech Architect

Comcast

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Work type
On-site
Location
Reston, VA
Salary
$153,841–$230,762 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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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 · Principal AdTech Architect

Principal AdTech Architect joins the Enterprise Architecture team to translate business outcomes into scalable product designs for cloud-native platforms. This role serves as the primary interface between Product and Engineering, creating solution blueprints, reference architectures, and roadmaps for systems including Streaming Hub, Programmatic Demand, Audience/Identity, Measurement, and Revenue Science. The architect will manage technical debt, establish data contracts, and oversee infrastructure involving Kubernetes, microservices, gRPC, REST, Kafka, and NoSQL stores. Key responsibilities include designing high-scale, low-latency systems for ad serving and SSP platforms while ensuring security, observability, and cost efficiency. Candidates must possess expertise in header bidding, OpenRTB, and identity resolution. The role solves complex problems in the advertising technology space by building robust infrastructure to support premium video content across various devices and programmatic buying workflows.

What you'll do

  • Translate market and client needs into end-to-end solution designs for ad tech platforms like SSPs and DSPs.
  • Create Solution Blueprints, Reference Architectures, and Architecture Decision Records to ensure platform consistency and scalability.
  • Develop product-aligned architecture roadmaps that balance immediate business value with long-term technical debt reduction.
  • Provide hands-on design leadership for cloud-native systems focusing on reliability, security, observability, and cost control.
  • Establish standards for data contracts, identity management, and programmatic interoperability across buy and sell side workflows.
  • Advise leadership on build versus buy strategies and conduct architecture reviews to de-risk technical implementations.
  • Review and approve solution designs produced by internal teams and third-party suppliers.
  • Mentor engineers and architects while evolving enterprise architecture practices and documentation standards.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree (preferred).
  • 10+ years in software architecture/engineering and 5+ years leading distributed, high-scale, low-latency systems.
  • Experience designing or leading architectures for ad serving and SSP platforms, preferably for premium video or CTV.
  • Working knowledge of header bidding, OpenRTB, supply-path optimization, and auction transparency.
  • Experience building or integrating with DSP workflows including planning, activation, and measurement.
  • Practical grasp of identity and addressability concepts like first-party graphs and clean rooms.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes, service mesh, observability (OpenTelemetry), and at least one major cloud provider.
  • Strong knowledge of security/privacy patterns, API management, and FinOps principles.

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