
Principal Architect 6, Enterprise Architecture
NBCUniversal
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $126,283 - $295,977 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as the architecture interface between Product and Engineering
- Produce Solution Blueprints, Reference Architectures, and Architecture Decision Records
- Guide Product-aligned Architecture Roadmaps
- Provide hands-on design leadership for cloud-native systems
- Shape standards for data contracts, identity, consent, measurement, and programmatic interoperability
- Identify and lead strategic initiatives to grow technical capability
- Establish common practices for teams to ensure end software and systems interact seamlessly
- Advise and support leaders on technical choices and associated risks and rewards
- Reinforce and voice support for grounding principles to ensure architecture designs are stable, secure, scalable, reusable, and operable
- Review and ensure Solution Designs produced both internally and by 3rd party suppliers
- Apply new and innovative ideas to business and technology constraints
- Develop strategies and guidelines on cloud governance, tech stack selection, capability development and systems deprecation
Requirements
- 10+ years in software architecture/engineering
- 5+ years leading distributed, high-scale, low-latency systems
- Designed or led architectures for ad serving and SSP platforms
- Working knowledge of header bidding, deal types, supply-path optimization, and auction transparency
- Built or integrated with DSP workflows
- Practical grasp of identity & addressability
- Architected privacy-centric audience and measurement capabilities
- Kubernetes, service mesh, autoscaling, observability, and resilience engineering
- Strong security and privacy patterns
- Proven track record turning ambiguous business needs into roadmaps, blueprints, and execution plans
Benefits
- Best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees
- Array of options, expert guidance, and always-on tools
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software architecturecloud-native systemsdesign leadershipKubernetesservice meshautoscalingobservabilityresilience engineeringprivacy-centric audience capabilitiesarchitecture decision records
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic initiative leadershiptechnical advisorycommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationguidanceinnovationrisk assessmentstakeholder support