Principal Solutions Architect, Streaming & AdTech

Comcast

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Location
Irvine, CAPhiladelphia, PAEnglewood, CO
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$181,533–$242,044 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
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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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JOB TITLE: Principal Solutions Architect, Streaming & AdTech-Xumo The Principal Solutions Architect, Streaming & AdTech-Xumo joins the engineering team to provide technical leadership for large, cross-domain initiatives. This role involves owning the architecture and technical direction for multi-team projects spanning backend systems, CMS platforms, video workflows, and advertising systems. You will build scalable, secure, and maintainable cloud-native microservices architectures, defining a two-to-five-year roadmap while driving R&D innovation. Key responsibilities include managing video transcoding, monetization platforms, and FAST channel systems. You will utilize Java, the Spring ecosystem, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, BigQuery, and AWS integrations. Core competencies include domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and expertise in adaptive streaming, manifest manipulation, and server-side ad insertion. This role solves complex problems in content delivery, metadata ingestion, and programmatic advertising workflows within a streaming environment.

What does a Solutions Architect earn in California?

Median $235750 from 57 postings across 11 companies.

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Skills

Java Spring Framework Google Cloud Platform AWS Kubernetes Microservices Kafka Terraform PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB DynamoDB Cassandra Python CI/CD GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI gRPC REST OAuth2 OpenID Connect JWT Vault TCP/IP DNS HTTP/HTTPS TLS CDN Bash Linux Domain-driven design OpenAPI

What you'll do

  • Lead architecture and design for large-scale initiatives across backend, CMS, video, and advertising systems.
  • Define scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions using cloud-native microservices architectures.
  • Drive cross-team alignment and coordinate technical delivery across multiple engineering groups.
  • Manage the 2–5 year architectural roadmap and drive R&D innovation for long-term platform strategy.
  • Represent the company’s technical architecture with external partners and vendors to influence integration strategies.
  • Establish best practices for reliability, observability, scalability, and security in partnership with DevOps.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate architectural standards across the entire organization.

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience as a Solutions Architect or equivalent leadership role.
  • 5+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-native systems at scale, ideally involving Google Cloud.
  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on Java backend development.
  • 15+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred).
  • Expert knowledge of Java and the Spring ecosystem, including Boot, Core, Data, Security, and Cloud.
  • Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, BigQuery, Cloud SQL) and AWS integrations.
  • Expertise in video delivery systems for ad-supported environments (preferred).

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