Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture

• Lead develop and manage a team of Enterprise Architects who align to Product domains and partner closely with Engineering teams across FreeWheel's AdTech platforms.
• Define and drive the Enterprise Architecture vision operating model and engagement approach for Product-facing EA ensuring architecture work is tightly connected to business outcomes product strategy and delivery priorities.
• Serve as a strategic technology advisor to Product Management and Engineering leadership translating market opportunities portfolio priorities and client requirements into actionable architecture direction and investment recommendations.
• Oversee creation of solution blueprints reference architectures architecture decision records (ADRs) roadmaps and target-state designs that improve consistency reuse and execution quality across the portfolio.
• Establish and run effective architecture governance mechanisms including design reviews decision forums standards management exception handling and architecture lifecycle oversight.
• Guide architectural direction for distributed cloud-native systems spanning ad serving SSP DSP audience/identity measurement revenue science APIs and data platforms.
• Ensure architectural strategies balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability operability resiliency privacy security interoperability and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Infrastructure & Platform Architecture so that our products and solutions are consistent with EA's technical direction on platform modernization domain boundaries integration patterns event-driven architectures data contracts and shared platform capabilities.
• Shape portfolio-level roadmaps that reduce technical debt rationalize legacy patterns and create reusable platforms paved roads and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Influence build buy extend customize and retire decisions by evaluating business value complexity architectural fit risk and total cost of ownership.
• Take part in identifying opportunities to apply generative AI and agentic AI across product and internal workflows. Play a lead role in establishing architecture guardrails for governance privacy security evaluation and human oversight.
• Drive measurable improvements in architecture maturity engineering effectiveness software quality system reliability scalability security posture and cost transparency.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in senior leadership forums and cross-functional planning processes; contribute to strategic planning portfolio prioritization and major initiative reviews.
• Build strong partnerships across the Product Commercial and Engineering organizations including Product Management Security Data Platform Operations and client-facing teams to improve organizational alignment and accelerate delivery.
• Coach and mentor architects and senior technical leaders helping grow talent improve architectural rigor and create a high-performing collaborative architecture community.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular consistent and punctual attendance.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Operate as a people leader first and an architecture leader always: Build an engaged high-performing team with clear priorities accountability and development plans.
• Create clarity for both Product and Engineering by framing architecture choices in terms of customer value market differentiation technical risk and time-to-impact.
• Raise the bar on enterprise and portfolio thinking by promoting reuse standardization and platform leverage without slowing innovation.
• Lead with pragmatism: Enable teams to deliver near-term commitments while steadily driving modernization and reduction of architectural friction.
• Influence through credibility relationships and thoughtful decision-making across organizational boundaries rather than relying solely on authority.
• Enable healthy technical debate drive decisions to closure and ensure architecture guidance is documented socialized and actionable.
• Foster a culture of inclusion learning and continuous improvement across the architecture practice and the broader engineering organization.
• Demonstrate sound judgment in balancing business priorities operational risks organizational readiness and technology strategy.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering software architecture or enterprise architecture including significant experience leading architecture for distributed high-scale platforms.
• 10+ years of people leadership experience managing senior architects principal engineers or comparable senior technical individual contributors.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define architecture strategy roadmaps and execution plans for complex product portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud-native architecture including microservices Kubernetes APIs event-driven systems resiliency patterns observability and security-by-design.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural direction for complex data-intensive and transaction-oriented systems with high requirements for performance availability and scale.
• Experience establishing architecture governance decision frameworks standards and review processes that improve consistency and delivery quality across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of security privacy identity integration and data architecture patterns relevant to large-scale enterprise and product environments.
• Proven ability to evaluate tradeoffs across build/buy/customize/deprecate strategies and to communicate technical decisions effectively to executive product and engineering audiences.
• Excellent leadership communication conflict resolution and organizational influencing skills.

• Experience in AdTech MarTech media technology or adjacent digital advertising ecosystems including familiarity with ad serving programmatic supply and demand identity measurement or monetization workflows.
• Experience with premium video CTV SSAI live event monetization or marketplace platforms is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting global product organizations with multiple engineering teams and complex stakeholder environments.
• Hands-on familiarity with architecture patterns for generative AI retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflow orchestration agentic AI and governance for production AI systems.
• Experience driving modernization of legacy systems into more modular platform-oriented API-first and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with FinOps cost-aware architecture and engineering practices that improve operational efficiency and cloud spend discipline.

• A high-performing Enterprise Architecture team that is trusted by Product and Engineering leadership and consistently engaged on the highest-value strategic initiatives.
• Improved technology decision quality clearer product-aligned architecture roadmaps and stronger alignment between business priorities and engineering execution.
• Greater consistency in architecture practices standards documentation and governance across FreeWheel's product portfolio.
• Observable progress in modernization technology simplification risk reduction reliability security and cost efficiency.
• Stronger cross-functional collaboration and increased feature development velocity across Product and Engineering teams.

• 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.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other our customers investors and our communities.

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

FreeWheel is an industry leader built on a culture of creativity ingenuity and inclusion. We welcome big ideas give you space to grow and offer the support you need. We’re proud to be a division of Comcast which is consistently rated one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For.