Architect, Builder Enablement

About the role

The role of Enterprise Architect for Builder Enablement involves bringing clarity and coherence to a complex, evolving technology ecosystem. The incumbent will be a founding member of the Builder Enablement team at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and enablement.

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.