Associate Ad Tech Solutions Architect — Hybrid

NBCUniversal Intl.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking an Associate Solutions Architect for Ad Technology to design and implement solutions across our advertising ecosystem, coordinating with Product Owners, Engineering, QA, and Operations. You will document requirements, map data flows, and support onboarding of new features and partners, while using AI tools to accelerate analysis and ensure quality.

The role emphasizes building test plans, maintaining documentation, and delivering reliable integrations across web, mobile,

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in digital advertising, media technology, digital video, systems integration, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of digital advertising or streaming media workflows, with exposure to ad serving, ad decisioning, programmatic advertising, measurement, content distribution, or playback.
• Experience translating business needs into structured requirements, process flows, technical documentation, test cases, or implementation plans.
• Experience coordinating work across technical and business stakeholders and maintaining clear ownership, decisions, risks, dependencies, and follow-up actions.
• Demonstrated technical, quantitative, or analytical skills and the ability to investigate issues methodically and communicate findings clearly.
• Ability to use AI-assisted productivity tools thoughtfully for research, analysis, drafting, or workflow support, with sound judgment to verify outputs.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of solutions across NBCU’s advertising technology ecosystem, including gathering integration requirements and coordinating with Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, QA, Operations, and Integration stakeholders.
• Document and help define technical requirements for new digital advertising features through close collaboration with end-to-end architecture and integration stakeholders.
• Support integration workstreams from discovery through launch, including scope definition, interface and data-flow mapping, dependency tracking, risk identification, milestone coordination, and operational readiness.
• Assist with onboarding new advertising features, platforms, and partners by documenting technical capabilities, limitations, dependencies, open questions, and risks, and by aligning implementation details to business requirements and user stories.
• Develop and maintain test plans, QA flows, validation checklists, acceptance criteria, and certification processes for the successful delivery of new advertising features and integrations.
• Build working knowledge across SSAI, SGAI, CSAI, ad serving and decisioning systems, programmatic integrations, metadata ingestion, measurement, and VOD, linear, and live advertising workflows across web, mobile, and CTV streaming products.
• Coordinate day-to-day integration activities for assigned workstreams, including organizing technical discussions, capturing decisions, tracking issues and owners, escalating blockers, and communicating status and next steps.
• Assist with technical troubleshooting by reviewing logs, ad requests and responses, identifiers, metadata, configuration, and observed behavior, and partner with subject-matter experts to isolate failure points and drive resolution.
• Support launch-readiness reviews, implementation and rollback planning, production validation, stakeholder communications, post-launch monitoring, and handoff to operational teams.
• Create and maintain integration guides, architecture and process diagrams, decision records, known limitations, runbooks, and reusable technical documentation.
• Use approved AI-assisted tools to accelerate requirements analysis, technical research, documentation, test-case development, issue triage, and synthesis of technical evidence, while independently validating outputs before they are used for decisions or delivery.
• Help identify repeatable integration tasks that are candidates for AI-enabled automation, contribute domain knowledge and feedback to improve those workflows, and document where human review, escalation, or subject-matter expertise remains required.
• Identify opportunities to simplify integrations, improve repeatability, strengthen quality controls, reduce manual effort, and improve operational support.

Skills

Digital advertising

Solutions architecture

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical documentation

QA/test planning

AI tooling

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking an Associate Solutions Architect for Ad Technology to design and implement solutions across our advertising ecosystem, coordinating with Product Owners, Engineering, QA, and Operations. You will document requirements, map data flows, and support onboarding of new features and partners, while using AI tools to accelerate analysis and ensure quality.

The role emphasizes building test plans, maintaining documentation, and delivering reliable integrations across web, mobile,