Principal Architect

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Principal Architect

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $159,400.00 - $265,600.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Cox Automotive Data Solutions team delivers innovative, data-driven product capabilities that help the industry operate more efficiently, engage consumers more meaningfully and profitably, and make Cox Automotive solutions the best in the industry.

As a Principal Architect on the Consumer Intelligence Release Train, you will be at the heart of Cox Automotive’s rapidly growing data ecosystem. You will leverage your skills to drive innovation in the automotive ownership space, actively participating in the ideation, discovery, and design of data science and machine learning solutions. 

You will lead the architecture for the Cox Automotive Data Solutions Consumer Intelligence team, reporting to the Sr. Director of Architecture for Data Intelligence. In this role, you will collaborate with architects across Cox Automotive, as well as with engineering, product, and agile leaders, to establish a unified technological and architectural vision.  You will drive the definition of architectural styles and patterns necessary to meet both functional and non-functional requirements. You will validate solutions, identify risks and dependencies, and evaluate alternatives through hands-on research, discovery, and prototyping.  You will support solution development by providing, communicating, and evolving the overarching technological and architectural perspective.  You will frame solution alternatives in both technology and business terms, ensuring that product and business decisions consider their technical implications, and vice versa. And, you will define the technology landscape for Data Solutions in collaboration with peers in the architecture and engineering organization to help standardize and simplify our environments.

The ideal candidate will balance product solutioning with hands-on technical expertise and a strong engineering background, including experience in data modeling, data engineering, machine learning, and API design. You will lead a community of engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders towards a shared technical direction and strategy.  You will collaborate closely with other architects and product leaders across Cox Automotive's diverse product portfolio to meet specific business needs. Additionally, you will work directly with engineers, building prototypes and proofs of concept.  Your collaboration, mentorship, and technical guidance will empower teams to make local decisions and will foster a spirit of iteration, resulting in a faster flow of incremental value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Define and evolve the architectural direction, long-term vision, and guiding principles for delivery of data products within the Data Solutions architecture team and with architects across Cox Automotive.
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution, explore alternative solutions, and develop necessary documentation.
• Perform in-depth research of problem domains, approaches, and solutions.
• Collaborate with counterparts to ensure solutions meet organizational needs and effectively present findings to help drive informed decisions and keep stakeholders informed.
• Drive creation, adoption, and reuse of enterprise technology assets while identifying opportunities to create new reusable technology assets and patterns; advocate for their use across the enterprise.
• Identify technical, security, performance, operational, and compliance risks, along with their probability and impact; propose mitigation strategies for minimizing or eliminating risks, and advocate for engineering cycles to address each.
• Track and analyze technical debt and advocate for appropriate debt management.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to refine solution designs and technical approaches to define an achievable implementation, while providing guidance on requirements and strategy.
• Develop an architectural runway in support of upcoming requirements and work with counterparts to ensure that necessary work is pr