Head of Platform Engineering — Streaming, Ads & Data

Comcast; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast's Xumo unit in Irvine, CA, is seeking a senior platform engineering leader to shape the strategy for the FAST platform, oversee budgets, and drive monetization, personalization, security, privacy, accessibility, and governance across video, ad tech, and data platforms.

The role requires mentoring Directors, Senior Managers, and Principal Engineers, building a high-performing onshore/offshore team, and delivering measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• Deep experience leading engineering organizations responsible for video, advertising technology, and data platforms at scale.
• Proven success building and evolving cloud-based platform architectures that support high-volume consumer & enterprise products.
• Experience scaling platforms from early-stage development through significant user growth.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrating engineering strategies aligned with Xumo FAST platform architecture across Video, Ad Tech, Data, Content Management System, and Backend domains, while fostering an environment that embraces continuous improvement and change.
• Driving business objectives by implementing strategies that ensure operational excellence, accountability, and measurable impact on monetization, user engagement, and platform efficiency across the engineering organization.
• Defining and overseeing execution of cross-functional, platform-level initiatives, ensuring alignment between Engineering, Product, and business priorities, and supporting delivery of large-scale, high-impact programs.
• Directing data-driven analysis of operational and business metrics, monitoring project timelines, platform performance, and expenditures to ensure alignment with ROI and strategic priorities.
• Managing comprehensive budget oversight, including forecasting for platform operations, development, and large-scale engineering initiatives supporting both Xumo Play and Enterprise businesses.
• Leading platform development initiatives, including monetization capabilities such as advertising systems, data-driven personalization, and revenue-enabling technologies, translating these into scalable and maintainable platform solutions.
• Benchmarking and optimizing work processes to meet company and industry performance standards, including improvements in system scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence across platform engineering.
• Monitoring competitors, industry developments, and technological advances across streaming media, AVOD, and FAST markets to identify strategic opportunities, anticipate risks, and inform platform direction.
• Championing professional development by mentoring engineering leaders and building a strong leadership bench across Directors, Senior Managers, and Principal Engineers, enabling organizational scalability.
• Inspiring team commitment, building shared vision, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture across onshore and offshore teams.
• Leading data security, privacy, accessibility, and governance across platform systems by applying industry best practices, supporting global privacy compliance frameworks, maintaining audit readiness, and coordinating cross-functional execution.

Skills

Strategy Implementation

Operational Excellence

Collaboration

Platform Architecture

Platform Engineering

Cost Efficiency

People Leadership

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

Comcast's Xumo unit in Irvine, CA, is seeking a senior platform engineering leader to shape the strategy for the FAST platform, oversee budgets, and drive monetization, personalization, security, privacy, accessibility, and governance across video, ad tech, and data platforms.

The role requires mentoring Directors, Senior Managers, and Principal Engineers, building a high-performing onshore/offshore team, and delivering measurable ROI.