Sr. Architect, Solutions Architecture

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job 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 codes and verifies that the object oriented design best practices and that coding and architectural guidelines are adhered to. Identifies and drives issues through closure. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Presents solutions to senior architects.
• Plans and designs new or upgraded systems. Interacts with departments to implement improvements in process.
• Develops solution architecture (both tactical and strategic) to fully manage/support enterprise needs, services, systems and technology management.
• Mentors team members in relevant technologies and implementation architecture.
• Develops, documents and ensures compliance with best practices including but not limited to the following coding standards, object oriented designs, platform and framework specific design concerns and human interface guidelines.
• 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) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills:

This position is a solution architect role with focus on system integration. This position requires experience in the following skills and technologies.

Technical Skillset - Hands on experience or awareness of the following skills.

• Programming Language & Enterprise Framework

• Java 8/11+ with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Spring Security with OAuth2/OpenID Connect
• Integration frameworks: Apache Camel, Spring Cloud Gateway
• JMS/Messaging: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Kinesis Stream
• Web services: REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, Graphql
• Python and Unix Scripting

• DevSecOps CI\CD and Cloud

• CI/CD: GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse, Docker, Maven, Gradle
• Cloud: Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS

•   Databases

• RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL
• NoSql: MongoDB

• AI Tools

• GitHub Copilot
• FLOW – A comprehensive workbench tool/process for applying AI into SDLC cycle or similar.

• Observability & Performance - optional

• Logging- Kibana and Elastic Search or similar
• Monitoring- Grafana or similar
• Performance- Jmeter or similar

Domain Skillset

• Understanding of Comcast or any MSO Video, Voice and Data pr