15+ years enterprise systems architecture experience
Ai and agentic architecture implementation
Distributed data lakehouse formats expertise
The Principal Systems Architect leads the architecture for Warner Bros. Discovery's most critical advertising technology platforms to improve scalability and cost efficiency
Job Summary
The Principal Systems Architect leads the architecture for Warner Bros. Discovery's most critical advertising technology platforms to improve scalability and cost efficiency.
This role drives enterprise-scale automation leveraging AI and agentic architectures to orchestrate deployments and incident response across large-scale AdTech systems.
Candidates must possess 15+ years of experience architecting enterprise-grade data platforms with a proven track record in large-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines.
Matching Summary
The Principal Systems Architect leads the architecture for Warner Bros. Discovery's most critical advertising technology platforms to improve scalability and cost efficiency.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
15+ years enterprise systems architecture experience
AI and agentic architecture implementation
Distributed data Lakehouse formats expertise
Cloud-native microservices and serverless design
Streaming technologies Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub
Identity resolution and audience graph knowledge
Chaos engineering and failure testing practices
Nice-to-have
Mentorship of senior engineers and architects
Experience with programmatic ad-tech ecosystems
Strong grasp of privacy-first architectures GDPR CCPA
Vendor integration and third-party collaboration skills
Cost modeling and benchmarking optimization skills
Key Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
15+ years of experience in systems architecture leadership
Advanced knowledge of Iceberg Delta Hudi distributed compute frameworks
Hands-on expertise in AWS GCP Azure cloud environments
Deep knowledge of CI/CD automation and observability frameworks