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FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
FreeWheel's Enterprise Architecture team partners closely with Engineering organizations to translate technology strategy, platform requirements, and operational needs into scalable platform designs and technical direction. The Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform & Infrastructure reports directly to the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture - Platform & Infrastructure and serves as a senior technical leader focused on the foundational technologies used to build, deploy, operate, and secure FreeWheel applications. We are seeking an architect with deep experience in cloud and infrastructure platforms who can develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and technology guidance that improve reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency. This architect will also connect technology spending to architecture by analyzing service consumption and efficiency and evaluating alternatives based on their impact to FreeWheel's cost structure. The role will help shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, developer tooling, observability, databases, CI/CD, secrets management, and other shared platform capabilities while enabling Platform Engineering teams to execute with consistency and speed.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a senior architecture partner to Platform Engineering and Engineering teams, providing guidance on platform and infrastructure technology decisions.
- Develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) supporting FreeWheel’s engineering ecosystem.
- Guide architectural direction for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, serverless technologies, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, and shared engineering services.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on the design and evolution of platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, operable, and cost-efficient.
- Define platform guardrails, paved roads, reusable patterns, and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce unnecessary technology variation.
- Apply FinOps principles to architecture decisions by analyzing current cloud and other vended technology costs, correlating Engineering spend with services and architectural patterns, assessing utilization efficiency, and identifying material cost drivers.
- Evaluate architecture and platform alternatives in terms of technical fit, operational impact, and expected effect on FreeWheel’s total cost of ownership.
- Evaluate build, buy, extend, customize, and deprecate options for infrastructure and platform technologies.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide design guidance for major platform initiatives and modernization efforts.
- Develop strategies and guidelines related to cloud governance, platform standardization, technology lifecycle management, infrastructure modernization, and systems deprecation.
- Shape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture approaches, workload placement guidance, and migration strategies.
- Define architecture patterns for observability, resilience, secrets management, identity integration, platform APIs, automation, and operational excellence.
- Help shape the strategy, toolsets, and standard practices for utilizing AI and automation within engineering workflows, developer experience, platform operations, and architecture practices.
EXPECTATIONS
- Operate as an engineering-focused architect who balances platform standardization with product-team flexibility.
- Raise the bar on platform thinking through reusable services, shared capabilities, paved roads, and golden paths.
- Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews; drive clarity through ADRs, reference architectures, standards, and migration plans.
- Balance near-term engineering needs with long-term modernization and platform sustainability.
- Guide teams through complex technology decisions by making tradeoffs explicit and recommendations actionable.
- Connect technology decisions to financial outcomes by helping teams understand how architecture choices, platform adoption, cloud consumption, and service efficiency affect total cost of ownership.
- Contribute to measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to the continued maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice.
- Respect and promote inclusion and diversity.
EXPERIENCE NEEDED
- 10+ years in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability, databases, networking, infrastructure automation, and security-by-design.
- Experience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, hybrid-cloud, or datacenter-based platforms.
- Strong understanding of resiliency engineering, SLOs, observability, platform security, identity, and secrets management.
- Experience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and creating architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures.
- Experience applying FinOps principles to architecture and platform strategy, including cloud cost analysis, service utilization assessment, workload optimization, technology cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to correlate cloud spending with services, architectural patterns, and platform usage; identify inefficiencies; and evaluate alternatives based on their impact to cost structure.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, architects, engineering managers, and senior technology leaders.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and turning ambiguous technical challenges into clear recommendations and execution plans.
- Experience in large-scale distributed environments such as AdTech, FinTech, Telecom, media technology, SaaS, or marketplace platforms.
- Bonus: Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled engineering tooling, or developer productivity initiatives.
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.
- Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
- 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
Kubernetes; Cloud Architectures; Infrastructure Architecture
SALARY
Virginia Pay Range: $181,533.12 - $272,299.68
Additional Range: This job can be performed in Illinois, and Denver Campus with a Pay Range of $165,747.63 - $272,299.68
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. 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 compensation and 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.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
15 Years +
INTRODUCTION
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
FreeWheel's Enterprise Architecture team partners closely with Engineering organizations to translate technology strategy, platform requirements, and operational needs into scalable platform designs and technical direction. The Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform & Infrastructure reports directly to the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture - Platform & Infrastructure and serves as a senior technical leader focused on the foundational technologies used to build, deploy, operate, and secure FreeWheel applications. We are seeking an architect with deep experience in cloud and infrastructure platforms who can develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and technology guidance that improve reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency. This architect will also connect technology spending to architecture by analyzing service consumption and efficiency and evaluating alternatives based on their impact to FreeWheel's cost structure. The role will help shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, developer tooling, observability, databases, CI/CD, secrets management, and other shared platform capabilities while enabling Platform Engineering teams to execute with consistency and speed.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as a senior architecture partner to Platform Engineering and Engineering teams, providing guidance on platform and infrastructure technology decisions.
- Develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) supporting FreeWheel’s engineering ecosystem.
- Guide architectural direction for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, serverless technologies, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, and shared engineering services.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on the design and evolution of platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, operable, and cost-efficient.
- Define platform guardrails, paved roads, reusable patterns, and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce unnecessary technology variation.
- Apply FinOps principles to architecture decisions by analyzing current cloud and other vended technology costs, correlating Engineering spend with services and architectural patterns, assessing utilization efficiency, and identifying material cost drivers.
- Evaluate architecture and platform alternatives in terms of technical fit, operational impact, and expected effect on FreeWheel’s total cost of ownership.
- Evaluate build, buy, extend, customize, and deprecate options for infrastructure and platform technologies.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide design guidance for major platform initiatives and modernization efforts.
- Develop strategies and guidelines related to cloud governance, platform standardization, technology lifecycle management, infrastructure modernization, and systems deprecation.
- Shape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture approaches, workload placement guidance, and migration strategies.
- Define architecture patterns for observability, resilience, secrets management, identity integration, platform APIs, automation, and operational excellence.
- Help shape the strategy, toolsets, and standard practices for utilizing AI and automation within engineering workflows, developer experience, platform operations, and architecture practices.
EXPECTATIONS
- Operate as an engineering-focused architect who balances platform standardization with product-team flexibility.
- Raise the bar on platform thinking through reusable services, shared capabilities, paved roads, and golden paths.
- Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews; drive clarity through ADRs, reference architectures, standards, and migration plans.
- Balance near-term engineering needs with long-term modernization and platform sustainability.
- Guide teams through complex technology decisions by making tradeoffs explicit and recommendations actionable.
- Connect technology decisions to financial outcomes by helping teams understand how architecture choices, platform adoption, cloud consumption, and service efficiency affect total cost of ownership.
- Contribute to measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to the continued maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice.
- Respect and promote inclusion and diversity.
EXPERIENCE NEEDED
- 10+ years in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability, databases, networking, infrastructure automation, and security-by-design.
- Experience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, hybrid-cloud, or datacenter-based platforms.
- Strong understanding of resiliency engineering, SLOs, observability, platform security, identity, and secrets management.
- Experience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and creating architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures.
- Experience applying FinOps principles to architecture and platform strategy, including cloud cost analysis, service utilization assessment, workload optimization, technology cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to correlate cloud spending with services, architectural patterns, and platform usage; identify inefficiencies; and evaluate alternatives based on their impact to cost structure.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, architects, engineering managers, and senior technology leaders.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and turning ambiguous technical challenges into clear recommendations and execution plans.
- Experience in large-scale distributed environments such as AdTech, FinTech, Telecom, media technology, SaaS, or marketplace platforms.
- Bonus: Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, AI-enabled engineering tooling, or developer productivity initiatives.
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.
- Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
- 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
Kubernetes; Cloud Architectures; Infrastructure Architecture
SALARY
Virginia Pay Range: $181,533.12 - $272,299.68
Additional Range: This job can be performed in Illinois, and Denver Campus with a Pay Range of $165,747.63 - $272,299.68
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. 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 compensation and 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.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
15 Years +
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EB-2 requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience in architecture. Pull together your transcripts, licensure records, and promotion history now so your employer's attorney can build the strongest possible I-140 petition.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Target firms with documented green card sponsorship history. Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified employment-based sponsorship records, searchable by role, so you spend time on companies already willing to run the PERM process.
Verify your wage tier before accepting an offer
PERM requires your offered salary to meet the prevailing wage DOL certifies for your SOC code and location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to confirm your offer clears the threshold before you sign, since a below-wage offer will fail PERM outright.
Understand how PERM recruitment timelines affect your start date
Employers must run a compliant recruitment campaign and document that no qualified U.S. workers applied before filing PERM. That process typically takes several months, so negotiate your start date with that runway in mind rather than assuming an immediate filing.
Secure your priority date as early as possible
Your priority date is set when PERM is filed with DOL, not when I-140 is approved. If you're a national of a backlogged country, every month earlier matters. Ask your prospective employer whether they'll begin the PERM process promptly after your offer is accepted.
Plan your employer change strategy around AC21 portability
Once your I-485 has been pending at least 180 days and your I-140 is approved, you can move to a new Principal Architect role at a different firm under AC21 job portability without restarting the green card process from scratch.
Green Card Principal Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
What green card category covers Principal Architect roles?
Most Principal Architect positions qualify under EB-2, which covers roles requiring an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in a specialty field. Architecture's licensing and project-leadership requirements typically satisfy that standard. EB-3 is also available for roles filled by professionals holding a bachelor's degree, and it carries the same PERM labor certification requirement.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for architects?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary and subject to an annual lottery, while green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 leads to permanent residence with no lottery. The PERM process requires your employer to run a formal DOL-supervised recruitment test and obtain a prevailing wage determination before filing an I-140 with USCIS, steps that have no equivalent in the H-1B process. The tradeoff is a longer timeline but a permanent outcome.
How do I find Principal Architect employers who sponsor green cards?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified employment-based sponsorship records, letting you search by role and location rather than cold-applying and asking HR about sponsorship. Focusing on firms with documented sponsorship history significantly reduces wasted application cycles, since PERM is a substantial commitment that many smaller practices decline to undertake.
How long does the PERM process take for an architecture role?
The PERM process involves a prevailing wage determination from DOL, a compliant recruitment campaign, and then the PERM application itself. DOL processing times for PERM applications vary and are updated periodically by the agency. After PERM certification, your employer files an I-140 with USCIS, and if your priority date is not current, you wait for a visa number before filing or receiving an I-485 or immigrant visa.
Can I switch architecture firms after my employer starts my green card?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules once your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days and your I-140 has been approved, you can move to a new Principal Architect position at a different employer without restarting the green card process, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupation. Your approved I-140's priority date can also carry over to a new employer's I-140 petition.