Principal Solutions Architect, Streaming & AdTech-Xumo

Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter Communications, was formed to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform for the entire entertainment industry. The company consists of three primary lines of business: Xumo devices, Xumo Play, and Xumo Enterprise. Powered by Comcast’s global entertainment platform, Xumo devices feature a world-class user interface with universal voice search capabilities, making it easy for consumers to find and enjoy their favorite streaming content. Xumo Play is a free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service offering hundreds of linear channels and on-demand options. Xumo Enterprise provides tools and services for content creators, distributors, and advertisers to make FAST content more accessible.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams (Backend, CMS, Video, AdTech & Monetization, DevOps). This role will own the architecture and technical direction for large, cross-domain initiatives that may span 6+ months, requiring strong vision, coordination, and execution leadership. As a key technical leader, this position will influence the long-term evolution of the company's platform, ensuring architectural decisions support scalability, reliability, operational efficiency, and future business growth. The role has direct impact on the company's ability to deliver and monetize its products and services, enabling new revenue opportunities, improving advertising and content delivery capabilities, and accelerating the delivery of strategic business initiatives. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role where the ideal candidate must operate independently, influence senior engineers and technical leaders, and drive alignment across complex systems while balancing technical excellence with business objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and design for large-scale, multi-team initiatives across backend systems, CMS platforms, video workflows, and advertising systems.
• Define scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions using cloud-native microservices architectures.
• Drive cross-team alignment, identify dependencies, and coordinate delivery across engineering groups.
• Provide architectural leadership across:
  • Video transcoding and metadata ingestion systems
  • Monetization platforms and workflows, including advertising technology, SSAI, ad decisioning, video delivery integration, audience targeting and emerging revenue-enabling capabilities.
  • High-volume catalog exports and batch processing
  • FAST channel systems (dynamic playlists, manifest generation, ad insertion)
  • Proprietary CMS platforms and scheduling systems
  • Integration with AWS-based video services
• Represent the company’s technical architecture with external partners and vendors, influencing integration strategies and ensuring third-party platforms support the company’s strategic objectives.
• Establish best practices in reliability, observability, scalability, and security in partnership with DevOps.
• Define and maintain a 2–5 year architectural roadmap.
• Drive R&D innovation and technology exploration , translating emerging trends into actionable architectural direction that supports the company’s long-term platform strategy.
• Mentor engineers and elevate architectural standards across the organization.
• Produce clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• 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) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, or equivalent leadership role
• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-native systems at scale, ideally involving Google Cloud
• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on Java backend development
• Track record of leading large, cross-team initiatives independently
• Experience delivering complex systems with multi-month timelines
• Experience working directly with executive, product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with strategic company objectives
• Experience evaluating and integrating third-party platforms within a complex enterprise ecosystem
• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills
• Position if office based in Irvine, CA; Philadelphia, PA or Englewood, CO 4 days/week & 1 day remote.

Core Technologies

• Expert Java and Spring ecosystem (Boot, Core, Data, Security, Cloud)
• Strong experience with microservices architecture , including:
  • Domain-driven design (DDD)
  • REST, gRPC, and messaging-based communication
  • API-first design (OpenAPI) and API gateway patterns
• Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Cloud SQL and AWS integrations
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), Terraform/CloudFormation , Git workflows

Data & Messaging

• SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB/Cassandra)
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, and event-driven architecture
• Data modeling and batch processing systems

Security

• OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT
• Spring Security and API security best practices
• Secrets management (Vault, GCP/AWS Secrets Manager)

Networking & Distributed Systems

• Strong understanding of core networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and CDN architectures
• Experience designing and troubleshooting distributed systems in cloud-native and Kubernetes-based environments
• Strong understanding of API networking patterns including API gateways, service discovery, traffic management, and network security
• Experience with observability and diagnostics tooling for analyzing latency, connectivity, and large-scale production networking issues

Additional Required Skills

• Scripting ability for automation and operational tasks (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar)
• Strong debugging and production troubleshooting across distributed systems
• Solid Linux and command-line proficiency for system-level diagnostics
• Experience with Git workflows and working effectively in large, shared codebases
• Ability to use observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing) to diagnose production issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in video delivery systems for ad-supported environments, including adaptive streaming, manifest manipulation, DRM content protection, and server-side ad insertion workflows
• Experience with CMS-driven content scheduling and metadata systems
• Experience with AWS Cloud environments, leveraging Workload Identity Federation / STS and similar configurations.
• Experience with digital advertising platforms and ecosystems, including ad servers, demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side platforms (SSPs), and programmatic advertising workflows
• Familiarity with advertising monetization concepts such as CPM, fill rate, yield optimization, inventory management, audience segmentation, and campaign targeting

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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:

Event Driven Architecture (EDA); Distributed Systems Architecture; Spring Framework; Video Streaming; Cloud Security; Google Cloud Platform (GCP); Cross-Functional Teamwork

Salary:

Pay Range: This job can be performed in California with a good faith estimated pay range upon hire of $181,533.12 - $242,044.16 USD.

Additional Range: This job can be performed in Colorado with a Pay Range of $173,640.38 - $272,299.68

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within the posted range for this role at the time of posting dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

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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 +