Principal Architect – Software & Solutions Architecture

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Job Summary

Are you passionate about digital, technology, solutions and software services? Do you like big challenges and working within a highly motivated team environment? As a Principal Architect – Software & Solutions Architecture, in the Comcast Business Information Technology (BIT) organization, you will work with diverse teams of product owners, platform architects and software engineers to architect and design software solutions for Comcast Business which is a $10B business unit within Comcast. Our architects regularly present their ideas, solutions and design to the senior leadership team within business and technology organizations along with program stakeholders and delivery teams within Comcast and our technology partners. The BIT Fulfillment & Assurance (F&A) Domain Architecture team is a nimble and fast-growing team that always innovates, provides architecture vision and develop end to end solutions embracing industry standard best practices. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, results, quality, agility and success. In your role, you will largely drive strategic domain architecture by collaborating with business and technical teams to develop the architecture vision and end to end solutions, including business process, integration strategy, technology selection, capability to system mapping, information and data architecture, as well as lead any transformation programs within this area.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Develop the solution vision and documents the solution architecture that encompass capability to systems mapping, integration strategy, and technology that defines the overall solution approach and design by collaborating with business owners, SMEs and IT Delivery teams
• Actively involves in all phases of the project lifecycle from intake to implementation to make sure the solution is complete and consistent with the architecture blueprint and eliminate need for possible re-work.
• Participates in activities such as feature definition, user stories grooming, estimation, solution definition, and architecture gap/issue resolution.
• Facilitates and leads the requirements analysis, solution design working sessions and conducts analysis to determine the solution and integration needs.
• Engage with business counterparts, product owners and other stakeholders to understand the business pain points and translate those into system requirements and ensure that business asks are aligned with the overall architecture vision.
• The Solution architect is accountable to make sure that the solution is well thought through, engineered, operable, maintainable, and aligns to the enterprise vision along with the feasibility to deliver on schedule and provides the anticipated business value.
• Collaborates with IT Delivery team (platform/component architects, technical leads), Release management and PMs to ensure that all dependencies are resolved, and features delivered in one project does not impact other projects.
• Drives the systems integration including defining the interface/technical design specification and document the end-to-end data flow via established methodologies, templates and tools.
• The Solution architect actively involves in some aspects of implementation including research, proof of concept/prototype, compatibility tests and assessment for new technology introductions.
• The individual identifies necessary non-functional requirements (performance, security, operational) and participates in the development of conceptual architecture.

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering/information systems or similar technical area. (Master’s degree is a plus).

• At least 15+ years of experience in IT covering at least three of the following areas: architecture, requirements & design, development, testing, application support.
• 4+ years of MSO/Telecommunications experience with a good blend of functional and technical skills in enterprise BSS systems and Solutions architecture.
• 4+ years of experience architecting and designing large scale Enterprise solutions.
• 2+ years of experience implementing or integrating complex systems and platforms including COTS, SaaS and 3rd party solutions using industry standard frameworks and technologies
• 2+ years of experience in an Architecture group working on a broad spectrum of end-to-end strategic solutions and roadmaps
• Hands on system development and integration design experience/background (Angular, Spring, Spring Boot, J2EE, API Gateway, MySQL, Distributed systems architecture).
• Experience and knowledge of BSS, OSS, IT, and industry standards in one or more of standards such as TMF, MEF, ITIL, IETF, IEEE is highly desired.
• Strong Communication & interpersonal skills: Communicates effectively at both the leadership and developer levels and needs to have strong communication and leadership skills with the proven ability to lead large matrix managed technical teams that may include multiple vendors
• Experienced in driving and realizing a complex/full stack end to end solution and how architecture/design decision impacts the delivery.

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 proud to be 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:

Strategic Technology Planning; Solution Architecture; Solutions Design; Communication

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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

10 Years +