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
This job is responsible for advocating back-office software technology patterns & standards and exploring new technology practices for potential use. It involves guiding strategic solutions that consider the full scope of business challenges. The role involves mentoring and code reviews to uphold design best practices.
Job Description
About the Role:
This role is for a newly formed Technical Software Architecture group that will work collaboratively across IT platform teams. This group resides in the broader IT Enterprise Architecture organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and evolve software solutions aligned to business priorities, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and operational readiness across enterprise platforms
- Drive architecture standards and best practices by partnering with enterprise and platform architecture teams, applying design patterns across applications, integration, and event-driven systems
- Design and oversee robust, resilient systems incorporating APIs, asynchronous messaging, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and security principles such as authentication, authorization, and fault tolerance
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to align architectures with deployment, scalability, and reliability requirements
- Guide and govern implementation through architecture reviews, code/design oversight, documentation, and participation in governance forums to ensure consistency and continuous improvement
- Lead, mentor, and influence teams by supporting architectural decision-making, developing talent, scanning emerging technologies, and fostering innovation across projects and solutions
Required Skills & Experience (10+ years of relevant work experience):
- Deep understanding of software design patterns across application and integration layers
- Experience with API‑driven and event‑driven architectures, including asynchronous messaging
- Strong practical experience designing event-based systems (event modeling, event flows, pub/sub patterns, and integration via events)
- Solid knowledge of microservices and service decomposition approaches
- Understanding of security and resilience patterns, including authentication, authorization, and fault tolerance
- Experience incorporating observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing, production readiness)
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable, maintainable technical designs
- Experience conducting architecture and design reviews, including trade‑off analysis
- Proven ability to guide engineering teams and influence decisions without formal authority
- Strong communication skills and experience working across platform, enterprise architecture, and engineering teams
About Our Perks & Benefits:
We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated.
Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:
- Medical & Dental
- 401(k) Savings Plan
- Generous paid time off
- Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
- Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas free digital TV and internet.
- Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite hotel rooms.
Reasonable Accommodation
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Disclaimer:
- This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Job Profile: Architect 5, Software Architecture
Skills
Communication, Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Microservices Architecture, Software Design Patterns
We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.
Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
