Overview As part of FreeWheel's Enterprise Architecture team, you translate business outcomes into scalable, cloud-native designs that power our ad tech platforms. You'll guide Product and Engineering with architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and extensibility frameworks to accelerate innovation while safeguarding performance, security, and cost. You act as a product-minded architect, shaping end-to-end solutions for SSP/ad server, DSP, audience/identity, measurement, and revenue science. This role offers strategic impact across our cloud-native portfolio and partner ecosystems.
Compensation / Benefits- base pay within stated range
- bonus eligibility
- comprehensive benefits
- Total Rewards
- career development
- inclusive culture
Responsibilities- Interface between Product and Engineering to translate needs into end-to-end solution designs for Streaming Hub, Programmatic Demand, Audience/Identity, Measurement, and Revenue Science platforms
- Create Solution Blueprints, Reference Architectures, and ADRs balancing speed with maintainability and extensibility
- Guide product-aligned architecture roadmaps prioritizing business value and reducing technical debt
- Provide hands-on design leadership for cloud-native systems including reliability, observability, security, privacy, and cost controls
- Shape data contracts, identity, consent, measurement, and interoperability across buy/sell workflows
- Lead strategic initiatives to grow technical capability, reduce debt, and improve software quality and velocity
- Establish practices to ensure seamless interaction of software and systems
- Advise leaders on build/buy/extend/deprecate strategies; facilitate architecture reviews; de-risk delivery with PoCs and references
- Review designs internally and from third parties to ensure they meet standards
- Apply innovative ideas within business constraints and champion diversity and innovation
- Develop cloud governance strategies, tech stack guidance, capability development, and deprecation plans
- Operate as a product-minded architect framing design choices around customer value and time-to-impact
- Lead design forums and architecture reviews; drive ADRs and migration plans
- Balance near-term delivery with long-term modernization and data patterns
- Mentor architects/engineers and evolve EA practices and artifacts
- Stay updated on emerging solutions, systems, and tech stacks
- Promote inclusion and diversity
Key requirements- 10+ years in software architecture/engineering
- 5+ years leading distributed, high-scale, low-latency systems (Go/Java/Scala, gRPC/REST, Kafka/Pub-Sub)
- Designed or led architectures for ad serving and SSP platforms (premium video/CTV) with unified decisioning, mediation, forecasting, and yield protections
- Working knowledge of header bidding, deal types (OpenRTB, PMP, curated deals), SPO, and auction transparency
- Experience with DSP workflows (planning, activation, bidding, pacing/optimization, frequency management, brand safety, measurement)
- Understanding of identity & addressability (first-party graphs, UID2/PPID, clean rooms) especially in CTV
- Architected privacy-centric audience/measurement capabilities (data onboarding, reach/frequency, outcomes)
- Kubernetes (multi-cluster, multi-region), service mesh, autoscaling, observability (OpenTelemetry), resilience; hands-on with at least one major cloud; multi-cloud a plus
- Strong security/privacy patterns (OAuth/OIDC, tokenization, encryption, secrets, least-privilege, auditability) and FinOps sensibilities
- Hands-on experience with API management and API security standards
- Proven track record turning ambiguous business needs into roadmaps, blueprints, and execution plans; strong communication with senior leaders
- Bonus: live events/SSAI/programmatic for live sports/news; knowledge of curated supply strategies; AI/ML experience
- cross-functional leadership
- clear communication with senior stakeholders
- mentoring and talent development
- cloud-native architecture
- Kubernetes
- microservices
