Lead Software Architect

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

We are seeking a visionary Lead Software Architect to lead the software strategy for our enterprise platforms. This executive-level role is responsible for defining the long-term software roadmap, establishing architectural standards, and guiding engineering teams in building large-scale, cloud-native, secure, and highly resilient systems. You will operate as the organization’s top technical authority—shaping platform strategy, influencing senior leadership, and driving architectural excellence across the entire technology ecosystem.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and evolve the enterprise-wide software architecture vision, ensuring alignment to business goals and modern engineering principles.

• Act as a thought leader in distributed systems, cloud design patterns, platform architecture, developer experience, and emerging technologies (AI/ML, edge, automation).

• Advise senior executives on architectural risks, opportunities, and technology trends that inform strategic decision-making.

Architecture Governance

• Establish, publish, and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and reference models across all engineering domains.

• Lead architecture review councils and ensure solutions adhere to principles of scalability, security, resilience, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Evaluate and recommend modern platforms, frameworks, and development approaches that improve velocity and operational excellence.

• Drive re-use and standardization of APIs, shared services, and platform building blocks.

Technical Oversight

• Guide engineering teams in designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices-based systems.

• Oversee integration strategy across data platforms, identity systems, internal tooling, and customer-facing digital experiences.

• Ensure solutions meet requirements for high availability, fault tolerance, real-time processing, and strong observability.

• Define and maintain API guidelines and perform recurring architectural assessments across critical services.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Partner with product, platform engineering, security, SRE/operations, and data teams to deliver cohesive, future-ready solutions.

• Mentor senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of architectural thinking, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Promote cross-functional knowledge sharing, standardization, and alignment across all engineering groups.

Innovation & R&D

• Drive experimentation with emerging technologies such as advanced cloud services, agentic AI, edge computing, serverless architectures, and automation platforms.

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and evaluate feasibility, scalability, and operational readiness for enterprise adoption.

• Identify opportunities to simplify the ecosystem and accelerate developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in an architectural or principal-level leadership role.

• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems or cloud platform services.

• Deep expertise in native cloud architectural patterns,  microservices, APIs, event streaming, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong grounding in security architecture, scalable design, performance engineering, and cost-optimized cloud operations.

• Exceptional communication, executive influencing ability, and leadership presence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating within Agile, Lean, or DevOps-driven engineering cultures.

• Familiarity with technology governance models for large-scale enterprise environments.

• Background in AI/ML, SRE practices, cybersecurity, or FinOps.

• Demonstrated ability to lead transformation and modernization initiatives at scale.

Why Join Us?

• Influence the architectural direction of a global technology organization.

• Work on high-scale, mission-critical platforms with deep technical impact.

• Partner with world-class engineering and product teams.

• Drive modernization, innovation, and long-range platform strategy.

• Shape the standards, systems, and culture that power the company’s next generation of digital capabilities.

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.

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.

Skills:

Machine Learning (ML); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Architecture Governance; Technology Governance; Agile Methodology

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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.

Relevant Work Experience

15 Years +