Principal Enterprise Architect (Salesforce Implementation)

Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, helps local, regional and national advertisers use the best of digital with the power of TV to grow their business. It provides multi-screen marketing solutions to make advertising campaigns more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a presence in 66 markets with nearly 35 million owned and represented subscribers. We're dedicated to helping our clients meet their business goals by connecting them with their customers through multiscreen television advertising. Working with companies from local startups to nationwide corporations, we provide support to help each business reach its target customers. By applying data to television advertising in new ways, we're able to bring our clients the best of digital media, coupled with the power of TV. To learn more, check out www.effectv.com.

Job Summary

Effectv, a Comcast Company, helps local, regional and national advertisers use the best of digital with the power of TV to grow their business. It provides multi-screen marketing solutions to make advertising campaigns more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a presence in 66 markets with nearly 35 million owned and represented subscribers. We're dedicated to helping our clients meet their business goals by connecting them with their customers through multiscreen television advertising. Working with companies from local startups to nationwide corporations, we provide support to help each business reach its target customers. By applying data to television advertising in new ways, we're able to bring our clients the best of digital media, coupled with the power of TV. To learn more, check out [Register to View] This role under Effectv Technology Architecture team, focusses on enabling technical capabilities and optimal customer experiences within our multi-billion-dollar business. You will be a strategic member of the architecture group that will provide recommendations and technology design guidance for Product Management and Technology leadership to drive smart investment across our technology portfolio. Optimize our build and operate functions across multiple teams, deliver integrated data, services and application platforms that can be deployed at scale, with a primary objective to ensure that the technology landscape is aligned to the strategic and operational goals of Effectv. We are looking for an experienced architect to identify strategic opportunities to enhance our pitch-to-pay technology platform, and drive convergence and simplification via build, buy and partnership. The enterprise architect will have exposure to business services, applications, data, infrastructure and security; with responsibility to shape, inform and drive macro-level technology decisions.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Identify and lead strategic initiatives to grow our technical capability, reducing tech debt, improve software quality and velocity.

• Establish common practices for teams to ensure end software and systems interact seamlessly with one another; leverage out-of-box solutions to reduce complexity.

• Reinforce and voice support for grounding principles to ensure architecture designs are stable, secure, scalable, reusable, and operable.   

• Advise and support leaders on technical choices and associated risks and rewards on build, buy, extend, customize and deprecate strategies.   

• Provide implementation guidance and industrial best practice recommendations to our build and operate teams in preparation, planning and launch of applications and services.

• Capture business needs and articulate areas where technology leverage is possible to improve business processes,  

• Define architectural approaches and develop technology proofs including reference implementation.   

• Develop Sales, Order Management and Finance solutions to ensure that standard methodologies are followed, and the best data solutions are provided

• Review and ensure Solution Designs produced both internally and by 3rd party suppliers. 

• Contribute to the overall systems evaluation and implementation strategy for the enterprise and participate in appropriate forums, meetings, presentations etc. to meet goals.   

• Apply new and innovative ideas to business and technology constraints, champion diversity and innovation. 

• Develop strategies and guidelines on cloud governance, tech stack selection, capability development and systems deprecation.   

Expectations

• Define and develop critical initiatives to improve technology platform convergence.   

• Expand system level architectural knowledge across multiple domains.   

• Exercise and expand the technical and soft skills required to be a successful technical and architectural leader and influencer.   

• Develop the relationships and visibility to provide senior leadership with mentorship and support for strategic investment decisions.   

• Develop relationships with peers and other technical leaders to elevate and share technology standard methodologies across Comcast and Sky.   

• Gain experience in developing business requirements, technical and product value proposition and recommending implementation options to teams across the organization.   

• Guide, encourage, and empower teams around you by leaning into problems and encouraging them to do so too.   

• Win as a team by working together and being open to new insights.   

• Drive results and growth.   

• Knowledge of emerging solutions, systems, applications and tech stacks. 

• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.   

Experience Needed

• Technical architecture and development experience in SalesforceCRM, Media Cloud, Marketing Cloud and related capabilities

• 10+ years professional experience in software design, systems architecture, technical operations, data technology and cloud infrastructure

• 5+ years of solutions architecture or consulting experience including development or managing of SaaS and enterprise software components 

• Experience in designing, developing and deploying integrated sales and finance solutions

• Understanding and experience with B2B sales workflow service orchestration frameworks

• Strong application design skills combined with data, integration, security and user journey

• Expert in identifying and applying design principles that align with leading user experience (UX) and interaction design (IxD) practitioners  

• Experience with data stores and databases, including object storage, relational, and NoSQL  

• Understanding web application security, including multi-factor authentication, third-party authentication, XSS, and CORS  

• Proficient in technical documentation and presentation 

• Skills in analytics and interpretation of large, complex IT/technology products and services 

• Working knowledge of ad serving tech stack a plus 

• Working experience with Digital/Linear TV Advertising industry a plus 

• Experience with AWS, Azure and multi-cloud architecture a plus. 

• Salesforce, Cloud Architecture or Engineering Certification a plus. 

• Working experience with AI/ML and analytics platform a plus. 

• Hands-on experience with API management and API security standards (Token, Oauth2, OpenID) and plus. 

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.

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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 +

Salary:

National Pay Range: $118,835.88 USD-$278,521.58 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

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. 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 [Register to View] on our careers site for more details.

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