Architect – Builder Enablement

Job Description

As an Enterprise Architect for Builder Enablement, your role is to bring clarity and coherence to a complex, evolving technology ecosystem. 

You will be a founding member of the Builder Enablement team at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and enablement -  developing and maintaining a shared view of enterprise infrastructure, services, and patterns—mapping how they fit together today and where they’re going. You’ll work across teams to crystallize architectural principles, surface gaps and overlaps, and help the organization understand its technology as a cohesive system. 

You’ll align and influence—partnering with service owners and engineering teams to build shared understanding of how systems interoperate and evolve. Your goal is to help local decisions support a broader, intentional architecture, without slowing teams down. 

You’ll also help identify where new patterns, abstractions, or shared capabilities are needed, creating the foundation for Builder Enablement engineers to turn those ideas into practical, adoptable solutions. 

Part cartographer, part city planner—you create the map, highlight the terrain, and help the organization move in the same direction. 

Responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain a clear, evolving view of enterprise infrastructure, services, and architectural patterns, helping teams understand how systems fit together today and where they are heading.  

• Crystallize and communicate architectural principles that reflect how the organization builds and operates systems—grounded in real-world practices across teams rather than top-down mandates.  

• Identify gaps, overlaps, and friction points across the technology landscape, and work with service owners and engineering teams to align opportunities for simplification, consolidation, or new shared capabilities.  

• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to build shared understanding of how systems interoperate, helping teams make informed design decisions that support a broader, cohesive architecture.  

• Translate complex systems into accessible artifacts—diagrams, reference architectures, written guidance, and lightweight standards—that help engineers quickly understand the landscape and make effective choices.  

• Act as a connector across teams, facilitating conversations that lead to alignment without requiring formal authority; build consensus around direction, tradeoffs, and priorities.  

• Help identify high-value areas for Builder Enablement investment, creating the foundation for engineers to develop paved paths such as templates, tooling, and reusable components.  

• Engage with engineering efforts at key moments (e.g., early design, major changes) to provide architectural guidance and ask thoughtful questions, balancing short-term needs with long-term system health.  

• Evangelize a systems mindset, helping engineers and teams think beyond individual services to how their work contributes to a larger platform.  

• Mentor engineers and architects across the organization, helping them develop stronger architectural thinking, navigate ambiguity, and make better tradeoffs. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.  
• 10+ years of relevant experience

• Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and/or enterprise platforms, with an understanding of how services, infrastructure, and data systems interact at scale  

• Deep, hands-on experience building software or platform systems in a production environment. While this role is not primarily focused on day-to-day coding, prior experience as a builder is essential to establish credibility, inform architectural judgment, and ensure recommendations reflect how systems are actually built and operated 

• Ability to analyze complex technical landscapes and synthesize them into clear mental models, diagrams, and guidance that others can use  

• Experience working across multiple teams to build alignment and shared understanding without direct authority  

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between deep technical detail and high-level architectural concepts for a range of audiences  

• Experience partnering with engineering teams to influence design decisions and improve system consistency over time  

• Familiarity with modern cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and common architectural patterns in cloud-native and hybrid systems  

• Comfort operating at multiple levels—diving into technical detail when needed while maintaining a broader systems perspective  

• A pragmatic approach to architecture, with an understanding that tradeoffs are inevitable and that progress often comes through incremental alignment rather than perfect solutions  

• A track record of challenging assumptions constructively and helping teams evolve how they build and operate systems  

Desired Characteristics: 

• Experience in a platform engineering, developer experience, or enterprise architecture role focused on enabling other engineers  

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, and developer workflows, and how architectural decisions impact day-to-day engineering work  

• Experience creating reference architectures, system maps, or internal documentation that are widely adopted and used  

• Exposure to large, federated organizations where different teams own different parts of the technology stack  

• An interest in how emerging patterns (including AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows) are changing how systems are designed and operated  

• Ability to balance consistency and autonomy, helping organizations standardize where it matters without over-constraining teams  

• Experience mentoring or guiding other engineers and architects in developing systems thinking and architectural judgment  

• Domain familiarity with media, entertainment, or large-scale content platforms is a plus 

Additional Requirements: 

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. 

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $195,000 - $230,000 (bonus & LTI eligible)

We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis. 

Additional Information

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Compensation: 195000 to 230000 (USD) (YEARLY)