Director, Enterprise Architecture – Platform & Infrastructure Reston - Hybrid FreeWheel

Job Summary

Free Wheel, 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.

The Director, Enterprise Architecture – Platform & Infrastructure is the leader responsible for building and leading the Platform Architecture team. This leader defines the long‑range architecture strategy, standards, roadmaps, and governance for Free Wheel’s infrastructure and shared platform capabilities, including cloud and datacenter infrastructure, Kubernetes and container platforms, compute, storage, networking, databases, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, identity integration, service connectivity, and related platform technologies.

This role is a strategic architecture advisor to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture, the CTO organization, Engineering leadership, Platform Engineering, Security, Operations, Data, and Product Architecture. The leader in this role will help shape Free Wheel’s platform modernization agenda, guide investment decisions, improve engineering standardization, reduce technology fragmentation, strengthen operational resilience, and enable Platform Engineering to deliver reusable, scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient capabilities for product engineering teams.

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of Enterprise Architects responsible for platform, infrastructure, and shared engineering capability architecture across Free Wheel.
• Define and drive the Platform & Infrastructure Architecture vision, operating model, engagement approach, standards, governance mechanisms, and strategic roadmaps.
• Serve as a strategic architecture advisor to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture, helping set priorities, shape the EA agenda, and mature the architecture practice across the organization.
• Serve as the primary Enterprise Architecture partner to Platform Engineering leadership, providing strategic direction while enabling Platform Engineering to own delivery, operations, and execution of platform capabilities.
• Establish architectural direction for cloud and datacenter platforms, compute, Kubernetes and container orchestration, managed control planes, serverless platforms, storage, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer experience, secrets management, identity integration, and internal platform services.
• Shape Free Wheel’s multi‑cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy, including architectural guardrails for workload placement, portability where appropriate, resiliency, operational readiness, cost efficiency, security, and regulatory or business constraints.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, platform standards, target‑state designs, architecture decision records, technology lifecycle recommendations, and modernization roadmaps.
• Drive platform modernization and rationalization efforts that reduce legacy complexity, technology fragmentation, operational toil, duplicated capabilities, and unnecessary variance across engineering teams.
• Define paved roads and golden paths that improve developer productivity while balancing platform consistency, flexibility, reliability, security, and business delivery needs.
• Guide architectural direction for observability, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, service health, SLO practices, reliability engineering, incident learning, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Security and Operations to ensure platform strategies incorporate secure‑by‑design principles, secrets management, identity, vulnerability management, policy enforcement, auditability, and production readiness.
• Partner with Finance, Engineering, and Platform Engineering to embed Fin Ops and cost‑aware architecture practices into cloud and platform strategy, including cost transparency, usage efficiency, and informed trade‑off analysis.
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