Director, Platform Architecture & Cloud Transformation

Comcast; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 163,251 - 279,859; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks a Director of Enterprise Architecture to lead the Platform Architecture team, defining long-range strategies, standards, and roadmaps for cloud and datacenter platforms. This leader collaborates with CTO, Engineering, Security, and Product teams to mature architecture practices and enable scalable, cost-efficient platform capabilities.

Responsibilities include guiding platform modernization, governance, and developer experience, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years in software/infrastructure/platform engineering or related technology leadership roles.
• 5+ years leading architects, principal engineers, or platform engineering leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Enterprise Architects across platform, infrastructure, and shared capabilities.
• Define and drive the Platform & Infrastructure Architecture strategy, standards, and roadmaps.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Security, and Operations to ensure secure-by-design platform strategies.
• Shape multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy with guardrails for workload placement and cost efficiency.
• Develop reference architectures, governance processes, and modernization roadmaps to reduce fragmentation.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Platform Architecture

Cloud Strategy

Kubernetes

Observability

FinOps

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks a Director of Enterprise Architecture to lead the Platform Architecture team, defining long-range strategies, standards, and roadmaps for cloud and datacenter platforms. This leader collaborates with CTO, Engineering, Security, and Product teams to mature architecture practices and enable scalable, cost-efficient platform capabilities.

Responsibilities include guiding platform modernization, governance, and developer experience, while ensuring