Principal Architect, Platform Architecture - FreeWheel

Experteer Overview As an Enterprise Architect in FreeWheel’s Enterprise Architecture team, you translate business goals and client needs into scalable, cloud-native designs. You will guide product and technology leadership with blueprints, roadmaps, and reference architectures to accelerate innovation while ensuring performance, security, and cost efficiency. You’ll work across SSP/ad server, DSP, identity, measurement, and revenue science platforms to drive value and reduce technical debt. This is a strategic role shaping our technology portfolio. Compensation / Benefits * Serve as the architecture interface between Product and Engineering for end-to-end designs across Streaming Hub, Programmatic Demand, Audience/Identity, Measurement, and Revenue Science platforms * Create Solution Blueprints, Reference Architectures, and ADRs balancing speed and maintainability * Guide Product-aligned Architecture Roadmaps to deliver business value and reduce tech debt * Provide hands-on design leadership for cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, microservices, data/control planes) with focus on reliability, observability, security, and cost control * Define standards for data contracts, identity, consent, measurement, and interoperability across buy- and sell-side workflows * Identify and lead strategic initiatives to grow technical capability and improve software quality and velocity * Establish practices to ensure seamless interaction of software and systems across teams * Advise on build/buy/extend/deprecate decisions; facilitate architecture reviews; de-risk delivery with PoCs and reference implementations * Support architecture grounding principles to keep designs stable, secure, scalable, reusable, and operable * Review Solution Designs from internal and 3rd party sources * Apply innovative ideas within business and technology constraints and promote diversity and innovation * Develop cloud governance, tech stack selection, capability development and deprecation guidelines * Lead design forums and cross-functional reviews; drive ADRs and migration plans * Balance near-term delivery with long-term modernization (domain boundaries, event-driven patterns, data mesh) * Model pragmatism to unblock delivery and document reusable patterns * Contribute to operational excellence (availability, latency, quality, resilience, security, cost) tied to SLAs/SLOs * Mentor architects and engineers to evolve EA practices and artifacts * Keep abreast of emerging solutions, systems, applications and tech stacks * Promote inclusion and diversity Tasks * 10+ years in software architecture/engineering * 5+ years leading distributed, high-scale, low-latency systems (Go/Java/Scala, gRPC/REST, Kafka/Pub-Sub, columnar/NoSQL) * Designed or led architectures for ad serving and SSP platforms (premium video/CTV) including unified decisioning, mediation, forecasting, and yield protections * Knowledge of header bidding, deal types (OpenRTB, PMP, curated deals), SPO, and auction transparency * Built or integrated with DSP workflows (planning, activation, bidding, pacing/optimization, frequency management, brand safety, measurement) * Understanding of identity & addressability (first-party graphs, UID2/PPID, clean rooms) and ID interoperability for targeting/measurement (preferably in CTV) * Architected privacy-centric audience and measurement capabilities (data onboarding, audience building/forecasting, reach/frequency, outcomes) * Kubernetes (multi-cluster/multi-region), service mesh, autoscaling, observability (OpenTelemetry), resilience; multi-cloud experience a plus * Security and privacy patterns (OAuth/OIDC, tokenization, encryption, secrets, least-privilege, auditability) and API management/security * Proven track record turning ambiguous business needs into roadmaps and execution plans; strong senior stakeholder communication * Bonus: live events/SSAIl/programmatic for live sports/news, curated supply strategies; AI/ML and analytics familiarity * Bachelor’s degree; extensive relevant experience Key requirements *

stack forums and cross-functional reviews; drive ADRs and migration plans * Balance near-term delivery with long-term modernization (domain boundaries, event-driven patterns, data mesh) * Model pragmatism to unblock delivery and document reusable patterns * Contribute to operational excellence (availability, latency, quality, resilience, security, cost) tied to SLAs/SLOs * Mentor architects and engineers to evolve EA practices and artifacts * Keep abreast of emerging solutions, systems, applications and tech stacks * Promote inclusion and diversity Tasks * 10+ years in software architecture/engineering * 5+ years leading distributed, high-scale, low-latency systems (Go/Java/Scala, gRPC/REST, Kafka/Pub-Sub, columnar/NoSQL) * Designed or led architectures for ad serving and SSP platforms (premium video/CTV) including unified decisioning, mediation, forecasting, and yield protections * Knowledge of header bidding, deal types (OpenRTB, PMP, curated deals), SPO, and auction transparency * aaaD _ or integrated with DSP workflows (planning, activation, bidding, pacing/optimization, frequency management, brand safety, measurement) * Understanding of identity & addressability (first-party graphs, UID2/PPID, clean rooms) and ID interoperability for targeting/measurement (preferably in CTV) * Architected privacy-centric audience and measurement capabilities (data onboarding, audience building/forecasting, reach/frequency, outcomes) * Kubernetes (multi-cluster/multi-region), service mesh, autoscaling, observability (OpenTelemetry), resilience; multi-cloud experience a plus * Security and privacy patterns (OAuth/OIDC, tokenization, encryption, secrets, least-privilege, auditability) and API management/security * Proven track record turning ambiguous business needs into roadmaps and execution plans; strong senior stakeholder communication * Bonus: live events/SSAIl/programmatic for live sports/news, curated supply strategies; AI/ML and analytics familiarity * Bachelor’s degree; aaaaa aa5_ relevant experience Key requirements *