Director, Enterprise Architecture – Platform & Infrastructure - (Reston - Hybrid) FreeWheel

About this role

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.

Job Summary The Director, Enterprise Architecture – Platform & Infrastructure is the leader responsible for building and leading the Platform Architecture team. This leader defines the long-range architecture strategy, standards, roadmaps, and governance for FreeWheel’s infrastructure and shared platform capabilities, including cloud and datacenter infrastructure, Kubernetes and container platforms, compute, storage, networking, databases, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, identity integration, service connectivity, and related platform technologies.

This role is a strategic architecture advisor to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture, the CTO organization, Engineering leadership, Platform Engineering, Security, Operations, Data, and Product Architecture. The leader in this role will help shape FreeWheel’s platform modernization agenda, guide investment decisions, improve engineering standardization, reduce technology fragmentation, strengthen operational resilience, and enable Platform Engineering to deliver reusable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient capabilities for product engineering teams. Job Description Core Responsibilities  

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of Enterprise Architects responsible for platform, infrastructure, and shared engineering capability architecture across   FreeWheel .  

• Define and drive the Platform & Infrastructure Architecture vision, operating model, engagement approach, standards, governance mechanisms, and strategic roadmaps.  

• Serve as a strategic architecture advisor to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture, helping set priorities, shape the EA agenda, and mature the architecture practice across the organization.  

• Serve as the primary Enterprise Architecture partner to Platform Engineering leadership, providing strategic direction while enabling Platform Engineering to own delivery, operations, and execution of platform capabilities.  

• Establish architectural direction for cloud and datacenter platforms, compute, Kubernetes and container orchestration, managed control planes, serverless platforms, storage, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer experience, secrets management, identity integration, and internal platform services.  

• Shape   FreeWheel’s   multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy, including architectural guardrails for workload placement, portability where   appropriate , resiliency, operational readiness, cost efficiency, security, and regulatory or business constraints.  

• Develop and   maintain   reference architectures, platform standards, target-state designs, architecture decision records, technology lifecycle recommendations, and   modernization   roadmaps.  

• Drive platform modernization and rationalization efforts that reduce legacy complexity, technology fragmentation, operational toil, duplicated capabilities, and unnecessary variance across engineering teams.  

• Define paved roads and golden paths that improve developer productivity while balancing platform consistency, flexibility, reliability, security, and business delivery needs.  

• Guide   architectural direction for observability, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, service health, SLO practices, reliability engineering, incident learning, and operational excellence.  

• Partner with Security and Operations to ensure platform strategies incorporate secure-by-design principles,   secrets   management, identity, vulnerability management, policy enforcement, auditability, and production readiness.  

• Partner with Finance, Engineering, and Platform Engineering to embed FinOps and cost-aware architecture practices into cloud and platform strategy, including cost transparency, usage efficiency, and informed tradeoff analysis.  

• Influence build, buy, extend, standardize, deprecate, and retire decisions by evaluating   and communicating tradeoffs   across   business value,   strategic optionality , architectural   fit , resiliency, security, operability, risk, and total cost of ownership.  

• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled developer platforms, automation, infrastructure orchestration, and platform engineering tooling, and define pragmatic adoption strategies when they create measurable engineering leverage.  

• Partner closely with Product Architecture so that product-aligned architectures are grounded in shared platform capabilities, standardized integration patterns, reusable infrastructure services, and clear technology guardrails.  

• Coach and mentor architects   and   principal engineers; foster a high-performing architecture community -of-practice   that raises technical rigor and improves decision quality across Engineering.  

• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.  

• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance.  

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.    

Leadership Expectations  

• Operate as a people leader first and an architecture leader always: Build an engaged, high-performing Platform Architecture team with clear priorities, accountability, development plans, and strong technical credibility.  

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture , the CTO, and other Engineering SLT members   by   identifying   platform risks, modernization opportunities, organizational friction, and priority decisions requiring executive alignment.  

• Architecture partner to Platform Engineering:   Provide clear strategic direction, standards, and target-s

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