Comcast

Principal Software Architect

Comcast
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14 days ago
Philadelphia, PA, USAStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve software solutions aligned with business priorities, scalability, performance, security, and operational readiness.
  • Drive architecture standards and design patterns across applications, integrations, and event-driven systems.
  • Design resilient systems using APIs, asynchronous messaging, observability, authentication, authorization, and fault-tolerance principles.
  • Collaborate with engineering, cloud, infrastructure, platform, and enterprise architecture teams.
  • Lead architecture reviews, code and design oversight, documentation, governance forums, and implementation guidance.
  • Mentor and influence engineering teams, support architectural decisions, develop talent, and evaluate emerging technologies.

Requirements

  • At least 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, asynchronous messaging, event modeling, event flows, pub/sub patterns, and event-based integration.
  • Strong knowledge of microservices and service decomposition approaches.
  • Understanding of security and resilience patterns, including authentication, authorization, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience incorporating observability practices such as logging, metrics, tracing, and production readiness.
  • Ability to translate business needs into scalable, maintainable technical designs and conduct architecture and design reviews with trade-off analysis.
  • Ability to guide engineering teams and influence decisions without formal authority.
  • Strong communication skills and experience working across platform, enterprise architecture, and engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent coursework, experience, or extensive related professional experience may be considered.

Benefits

  • Medical and dental benefits.
  • 401(k) savings plan.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and other life-stage support.
  • Free digital TV and internet for eligible full-time employees in serviceable areas.
  • Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite hotel rooms.
  • Comcast generally prefers on-site collaboration unless the team is designated virtual; remote consideration may be available for candidates living more than 100 miles from an office when both office and virtual options are listed.
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