Sr Data Architect-Xumo - Comcast Corporation

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

Xumo seeks a highly motivated Sr. Data Architect to join our growing Technology team. Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Software Development, the Sr. Data Architect will be responsible for multiple facets of the Xumo Ad Tech data stack. This includes evaluating and understanding content feed and EPG metadata ingestion partner specs. Xumo seeks a candidate with deep and broad knowledge of modern streaming technologies and is familiar with all streaming protocols necessary for today’s multifaceted streaming media landscape. This role will require an individual to be very organized, excellent in written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders, and regularly demonstrate subject matter expertise.Comcast and Charter Communications have formed a 50/50 joint venture that brings our world-class Flex streaming platform, 4K streaming devices, voice remote and XClass TVs nationwide. You will want to join our innovative team because together, we will develop and offer consumers a next-generation streaming platform with a world-class user experience and navigation and all the top apps, bringing more choice to the streaming marketplace. Comcast will also contribute XUMO to the joint venture, our free ad-supported service that currently delivers more than 200 unique streaming channels and features hundreds of free content choices.

Job Description

Responsible for working with engineering teams throughout the company to design and architect secure, cost-effective, and high-performing cloud solutions. Partner with teams across the company to innovate and deliver software-defined cloud services and platforms. Work with the best and brightest minds in the company as well as with vendors to architect a private cloud offering that is scalable, reliable, easy to use, and competitive in the marketplace. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Mentors, reviews codes and verifies that the object-oriented design best practices and that coding and architectural guidelines are adhered to. Identifies and drives issues through closure. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment.

• Position is office based in Irvine, CA- 4 days/week & 1 day/week remote.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.  Applicants must be authorized to work for Comcast in the United States without a current or potential future need for sponsorship.

Core Responsibilities

• Ensures programs are envisioned, designed, developed, and implemented across the enterprise to meet business needs. Interfaces with the enterprise architecture team and other functional areas to ensure that the most efficient solution is designed to meet business needs.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into data architecture solutions.

• Design and implement data pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data from various sources into the company data pipeline.

• Define and implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, privacy, and security. (including compliance with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, etc.)

• Work closely with other data engineers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of the data architecture.

• Working closely with the Company’s Technology & Product team to validate the data model/patterns and approval on new data models.

• Designing and creating high and low-level design documents, reviewing those with the data owners, and obtaining design sign-offs.

• Ensures solutions are well-engineered, operable, maintainable and delivered on schedule.

• Monitors current and future trends, technology and information that will positively affect organizational projects; applies and integrates emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture.

• Presents solutions to senior product and engineering management.

• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of data architecture, data modeling, data solutions, and deployment processes.

• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s), and overtime as necessary.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Relevant Experience:

• At least 7 - 10 years of experience in data architecture, with a focus on designing and implementing data solutions for large-scale, enterprise-level projects.

• Strong understanding of data modeling, data integration, extraction, transformation, and data governance principles.

• Strong understanding of data privacy and compliances (i.e., PII, PHI, GDPR, CCPA).

• Experience with database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, and data warehousing solutions.

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform with a cloud-based data solution provider such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, including services like Big Query, Redshift, S3, or equivalent.

• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka for processing and analyzing large volumes of data.

• Good to have experience with data visualization tools such as Looker/ Tableau/ Power BI

• Proficiency in Bash Script, and Python.

• Experience with job schedulers(Cron, Airflow, etc.)

• Experience working in a DevOps framework

• Familiar with machine learning is nice to have

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and operations.

• Proven ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

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 proud to be 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:

Data-Driven Design; Big Data Analytics; Data Trends; Data Visualization; Database Architecture; Data Model Design; Advertising Analytics

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $124,709.97 - $187,064.96

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

10 Years +, 5-7 Years, 2-5 Years, 0-2 Years, 15 Years +, 7-10 Years